Peggy Guggenheim Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors
The sensational life of the American patroness Peggy Guggenheim is the focus of a musical and cultural journey through the 20th century. Tragedy and comedy intermingle as Peggy’s very sense of self is dramatized through her forays into the artistic world, her relationships with protégés, and her traumatic love affairs. The effervescent creativity of the 20th century emerges in a musical program that covers a dizzying variety of genres and styles, with works by Poulenc, Milhaud, Stravinsky, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Nino Rota, Barber, Berio, Ned Rorem and others.
This variegated musical canvas for mixed ensemble, actors, tenor and soprano is woven into a script based on Peggy’s autobiography, a tragicomic tale infused with the drama of a fractured identity.
Peggy Guggenheim Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors was part of our 2006-2007 Season.
2006-2007 Season
The Paris Project
In its sixth season, the Ensemble for the Romantic Century created a tableau of Paris in a series of four theatrical concerts. The artistic, literary and political changes that electrified Paris since the end of the 19th century were evoked in a fusion of theater and chamber & vocal music.
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