The Night's Tale: A Tournament of Love
Hours: | Hours Vary see below |
Ages: | Teens, Adults |
In/Outdoor: | Indoor |
Cost: | $$ see below |
Category: | Music & Concerts |
Our singers and players incarnate the age-old rites of striving and sexual attraction: The virile jousts take place in light of day, but as night falls, both men and women succumb to the temptations of love.
Throughout, both day and night, the frontiers of desire are in constant flux; music of combat and competition alternates with songs of yearning and tenderness.
The Night's Tale, as staged and directed by Artistic Director Anne Azéma, is not a decorous concert of 'early music.' It's a theater piece, with lights, movement, gesture, and lively interaction among the cast members.
Re-enacting this medieval tale for our own day, Camerata’s musicians are joined by gifted young professionals from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in an intense, musical evocation of longing and fulfillment.
Special lighting effects have been created by Peter Torpey of the MIT Media Lab.
All the 13th-century songs and instrumental pieces have been edited from original sources by Anne Azéma, who also created the scenario based on an authentic medieval narration by Jean Bretel.
Anne Azéma, Clare McNamara, Joel Nesvadba, Camila Parias, Jordan Pitts - voices; Shira Kammen - vielle, harp
HOURS | ↑ top |
April 16 at 8pm
April 17 at 7pm
COST | ↑ top |
$25/40/55, $10 students
WEBSITE | ↑ top |
LOCATION | ↑ top |
27 Garden St., Cambridge, MA, 02138 map
Phone: 6172622092
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