June 13th

'Chansons de Baudelaire' Concert

Name: 'Chansons de Baudelaire' Concert
Start: 2024-06-13T19:30:00-0400
End: 2024-06-15T21:30:00-0400
Location: A.R.T./New York - Mezzanine Theatre

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Come spend an evening with the lush and transgressive poetry of Charles Baudelaire, who shocked the world in 1857 with Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), groundbreaking poems that, although formally elegant in structure, fearlessly probe the shadow side of eroticism, dissipation, drugs, and sin. He suffered legal prosecution, censorship, opprobrium, and poverty, and died in abject misery, little knowing that his poetry would someday inspire hundreds of settings in styles ranging from cabaret to classical to jazz to death metal, as well as influencing literature, theater, film, and popular culture. Chansons de Baudelaire, a salon-style concert, will offer a bouquet of Les Fleurs in song settings from the late 19th and early 20th century, some by familiar composers like Debussy, Fauré and Duparc, but also introducing haunting settings by lesser-known composers including Joseph Jongen, Raoul Laparra, René Lenormand, Rita Strohl, and others who fell under the spell of this intoxicating poetry. Readings from Baudelaire’s intimate letters and journal entries will further illuminate the tormented psyche of the man who has had such a profound effect on literature and the arts to this day.

Performances for 'Chansons de Baudelaire' Concert are 6.13 at 7:30 pm & 6.15 at 7:30 pm. (Under date and time, click on more dates to access additional performance dates).

dell'Arte Opera Ensemble's June festival, themed “Wages of Sin,” kicks off with an extraordinary concert featuring prominent dell'Arte Opera alumni in their favorite repertoire of songs and arias! Our opening concert is followed by a double bill of Kurt Weill’s THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (libretto by Bertolt Brecht in the English translation by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman) and Robert Nelson’s TICKETS, PLEASE! with a libretto by Sidney L. Berger after the short story by D.H. Lawrence. A curated song program, CHANSONS DE BAUDELAIRE: Les Fleurs du Mal will receive two performances, and the festival will also include GUILTY PLEASURES, a cabaret program of songs by Weill, Cole Porter, and others. Programming curated and prepared by Artistic Director Chris Fecteau.

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DELL’ARTE OPERA ENSEMBLE was created to provide emerging opera artists with training and performance opportunities necessary to bridge the gap between the conservatory and a flourishing career. The emphasis is on “learning by doing”, backed by the philosophy that superior craft creates great art. DELL’ARTE’S annual summer repertory season also attracts new audiences by offering high-quality, meticulously crafted opera presentations featuring rising young artists in intimate venues. The company’s programming includes a wide range of operas, ranging from standard repertoire like Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro and Bizet’s Carmen to seldom heard works like Salieri’s Falstaff and Hiram Titus’ Rosina, to new works including Carla Lucero and Alicia Gaspar de Alba’s Juana, and in 2019, our first commission, Princess Maleine by Whitney George and Bea Goodwin.

Since its founding in 2000 DELL’ARTE has focused on helping singers integrate the skills that comprise a comprehensive role preparation process. Our goals are to:

Provide role preparation guidance, from audition and casting, through coaching and rehearsals, to debut performances;

Provide singers with a comprehensive professional rehearsal and performance context with the highest expectations and standards for effective collaboration .

Participants in the program receive a unique and carefully structured curriculum of private coaching, seminars, and masterclasses with industry professionals designed to address practice methods, diction, musical style, movement and character development, preparing them for a career in an increasingly competitive opera world. Unlike many other programs, ours charges no fees and does not require singers to leave New York City.

Since its inception in 2000, nearly 600 singers have benefited from DELL’ARTE’s programs. Of these, more than 30% perform regularly in opera houses and concert halls throughout the US and internationally, including LA Opera, Sarasota Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Royal Opera House (London) and Bel Canto at Caramoor. At least 10 have had Metropolitan Opera debuts and many are now on faculty at universities around the country.

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