Don’t
miss your chance to see the production that this week’s New
York magazine
calls “a perfect melding” by the company the New Yorker hails
as a “hardy Gotham company”—two performances only!
In the Press:
• New
York Magazine (pdf)
• New
Yorker (pdf)
Cast
Phillip
Addis, Baritone, Roderick Usher
Ariadne
Greif, Soprano, Madeleine Usher
Michael
Chioldi, Baritone, Doctor
David
McFerrin, Baritone, Friend
With actor Alexandre
Blaise
Directed by Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Delœuil
Jeff Cohen, Music Director
Yves Abel, Music Director & Founder, OFNY
Rick Martin, Set and Lighting Designer
Katherine Patterson, Costume Designer
Chelsea Antrim, Stage Manager
This fall, Opéra
Français de New York returns to FIAF following its
critically acclaimed presentation of Debussy‘s Pelleas
et Melisande at Florence Gould Hall in 2005, a production
that Anthony Tommassini of The New York Times called
“a revelation”. In collaboration with FIAF, OFNY presents
a multidisciplinary event based on an unfinished commission
to Claude Debussy from the Metropolitan Opera. In 1908, the
Met asked Debussy to score an opera based on stories by Edgar
Allen Poe, the American poet and writer best known for his
mysterious and macabre tales. Debussy selected Fall of
the House of Usher and The Devil in the Belfry, and worked
for several years on the orchestration of this operatic double-bill,
but died before he could complete it.
In conjunction with the bicentennial of Poe’s birth, OFNY
presents an operatic journey integrating Debussy’s unfinished
score with Poe’s texts (staged as theatrical fragments),
inspired by the French composer’s and American writer’s continuous
flirtation with the bizarre. This unique program exudes themes
common to Poe and Debussy, from their Romantic taste for
neurotic characters and vague settings to feelings of instability
and danger. |
Sung
in French
with English supertitles
Spoken Dialogue
in English and French
Venue
Florence Gould
Hall
55 East 59th Street |
Ticket Prices
FIAF Members $40
Non-Members $50 |
Buy Tickets
Online: Ticketmaster.com
Call: 212 307 4100
Visit Box Office
|
OFNY gratefully
acknowledges the leadership support of The Florence Gould
Foundation and the collaboration of FIAF and the international
law firm of Salans LLP |
Fall
2009 Season Sponsors: American
Airlines, the official airline of FIAF; the Cultural
Services of the French Embassy; Culturesfrance; and the Florence
Gould Foundation |
Performance
made possible with public funds from the New York State Council
on the Arts, a State Agency
Image: Dress Rehearsal
©Jacqueline Chambord |
