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kitchen_kinkIt's been a crazy few weeks, in ways I can't even begin to go into. But yesterday, I got to spend a nice long romantic day with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
imlad, something we haven't done in far too long. It included watching Figaro at the ART, which I'm highly recommending folks go see. Oh my my yes.
I'm not all that familiar with Figaro's story, but I know it's been told mainly by Mozart and Beaumarchais. This new adaptation is essentially a play in English, with songs from the Mozart in Italian. It sounds strange, but it somehow completely works. And Jennifer Baldwin Peden, whom I saw last year in this same troupe's Carmen, and who broke my heart as Michaela, here breaks my heart as the Countess. There is something about her expressiveness that is unutterably sad, about her voice that is both powerful and ever-soft, about her control of her voice and her body that is sheer poetry. She may be my favorite performer, period, right now.
Actually, anything you see happening by Teatre de Jeune Lune, just go see. I can pretty much guarantee you won't regret it.
Figaro is playing in repertory with another adaptation of Mozart (and Moliere), Don Juan Giovanni, at the Loeb, through October 6.
imlad, something we haven't done in far too long. It included watching Figaro at the ART, which I'm highly recommending folks go see. Oh my my yes.I'm not all that familiar with Figaro's story, but I know it's been told mainly by Mozart and Beaumarchais. This new adaptation is essentially a play in English, with songs from the Mozart in Italian. It sounds strange, but it somehow completely works. And Jennifer Baldwin Peden, whom I saw last year in this same troupe's Carmen, and who broke my heart as Michaela, here breaks my heart as the Countess. There is something about her expressiveness that is unutterably sad, about her voice that is both powerful and ever-soft, about her control of her voice and her body that is sheer poetry. She may be my favorite performer, period, right now.
Actually, anything you see happening by Teatre de Jeune Lune, just go see. I can pretty much guarantee you won't regret it.
Figaro is playing in repertory with another adaptation of Mozart (and Moliere), Don Juan Giovanni, at the Loeb, through October 6.
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Date: 2007-10-01 04:39 pm (UTC)Glad you're still alive. ;)
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Date: 2007-10-01 04:43 pm (UTC)adapted by Steven Epp and Dominique Serrand
from "La Fausse Suivante" by Pierre Marivaux
directed by Dominique Serrand
October 13 - November 25
Suspecting her husband-to-be of betrayal , a fetching young heiress diguises herself as a knight to woo the hand of the countess he desires. In this new adaptation of an 18th century romp, Theatre de la Jeune Lune brings their incomparable wit and physical exuberance to the perils of courtships in a deliciously nasty game
of love, sex and power.