Friday, October 3 * Eastman School of Music
Saturday, October 4 * Cornell University

Music Director: Paul O'Dette
Stage Director: Beth Milles
Choreographer: Ken Pierce
Costume Designer: Debra Tennenbaum
Lighting Designer: E.D. Intemann
Producer: Rebecca Harris-Warrick



First staged at the Paris Opera in 1675, Lully's Carnaval Mascarade is an entertainment from the court of Louis XIV, a kind of pageant of the nations in which no one escapes ridicule. Sung in four languages, and conceived of as a pastiche of favorite scenes from Lully's own court ballets of the 1660s, Le Carnaval Mascarade careens wildly between genres: it looks like a ballet and it sounds like an opera; you laugh, in turn, at the satire of Molière, and then at the antics of commedia dell'arte characters. Le Carnaval Mascarade reveals another Lully to those who know him only through the tragédie en musique, a Lully very much at home in musical comedy where sarabandes and chaconnes, whose choreography survives in some of the earliest dance notations, sit side-by-side with broad burlesque comedy about fake ceremonies and polygamy.


Cast
  • Paul Shipper as the Mufti, Barbacola, and the Drawling Lawyer
     
  • Marc Molomot as Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and a Gypsy
     
  • Rebecca Plack as an Italian Singer and Gallantry personified
     
  • Caleb Burhans as the Nattering Lawyer and a Quack Doctor
     
  • Dancers Camilla Finlay, Ken Pierce, Bruce Roberts, Melinda Sullivan as Carnival Revelers, Gypsies, Harlequins, Spaniards, and more
     
  • Other singers and instrumentalists from the Cornell Vocal Studio, the Eastman Collegium Musicum and Les Petits Violons de Cornell
Sponsors

Cornell University (Department of Music, Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, French Studies Program, Society for the Humanities, Cornell Council on the Arts), Eastman School of Music, Genesee Early Music Society, and the Florence Gould Foundation.

Le Carnaval Mascarade is a co-production of the Cornell Department of Music, the Cornell Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, and the Eastman School of Music, with participation by the Genesee Early Music Society.

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 Schedule
  • Friday, October 3, 2003, 7 PM:
    Kilbourn Hall
    Eastman School of Music
    Rochester, New York
     
  • Saturday, October 4, 2003, 8 PM:
    Barnes Hall
    Cornell University
    Ithaca, New York
The performance lasts 90 minutes without intermission.
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