Les Fêtes Vénitiennes at Peter Jay Sharp Building

Dates: (4/14/2016 - 4/17/2016 )

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Peter Jay Sharp Building

30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn,NY NY 11217

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Phone: 718.636.4100

Tickets: $35.00

Running Time: 3hrs (with intermission)

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Celebrated conductor William Christie and his acclaimed early-music ensemble Les Arts Florissants explore the hedonistic side of the French Baroque with the rarely staged opéra-ballet Les Fêtes Vénitiennes, by André Campra (1660-1744), famed successor to composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Gamblers, carnies, gypsies, and jilted lovers—baring lots of leg via scanty updates on period dress—populate a series of stories in this crimson-hued carnival of courtly music, dance from Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, and Venetian decadence, originally conceived in the anti-authoritarian ferment surrounding the Sun King Louis XIV’s final days. Play-within-a-play plot devices, melodies borrowed from Lully’s opera Atys, gliding gondolas, and dancing sheep round out Campra’s whimsical nod to French libertinism.

Cast and Creative team for Les Fêtes Vénitiennes at Peter Jay Sharp Building

Scenic design by Radu Boruzescu
Choreography by Ed Wubbe
Costume design by Petra Reinhardt
Lighting design by Robert Carsen and Peter van Praet

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