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Rameau's Nephew

Sat. Dec 13, 2014 at 8:00pm EST
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Rameau's Nephew

Starring

 

Steven Rattazzi as the Philosopher

Hasekelll King as the Nephew

 

and featuring harpsichordist Andrew Appel

 

Hilarity ensues at a Paris cafe when Diderot pits a hapless buffoon against a stoic philosopher in his stinging satire about the music business and high society of Enlightenment France.

 

Step into the dusk of the Ancien Regime, as icons tumble, gossips rumble, and musicians hurl their slings. Arrows fly between the fans of French harmony and Italian melody in this site-specific music-theater piece based on the Philosophe's play of opposites.

 

Pull up a chair and enjoy a glass of wine, as the game of buffoons and Querelle des Bouffons unfold to the seductive airs of Lully, Pergolesi, Gasparini, and the great Rameau, whose anniversary year we salute and draw to a close with this production of Diderot's witty masterpiece.

 

All tickets include cafe seating and complimentary vin and pain.

 

Starring Steven Rattazzi, praised by the New York Times as "an actor of impressive subtlety" and noted for "the cracked comic charm of Peter Sellers"

 

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The Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium 417 East 61st St.
New York City, NY 10065