Seduction, Smoke, and Music: The Love Story of Chopin and George Sand
Seduction, Smoke, and Music tells the love story of Frédéric Chopin, the renowned composer, and George Sand, the infamous cigar-smoking French novelist and feminist. The performance explores the unfolding of their passionate relationship over a decade.Seduction, Smoke, and Music, a theatrical concert written and conceived by Ensemble for the Romantic Century.
Eve Wolf and Max Barros, Artistic Directors, Ensemble for the Romantic Century.
Barrett Wissman, Executive Producer, Barrett Wissman and IMG Artists.
James Melo, scriptwriter.
Directed by Donald T. Sanders.
Production design by Vanessa James.
The production of Seduction, Smoke, and Music: The Love Story of Chopin and George Sand was part of our 2004-2005 and 2010-2011 Seasons.
2010-2011 Season
Love Looks Not With the Eyes, But With the Mind
Madness, obsession, betrayal; tenderness, jealousy, violence; the most sublime happiness and the deepest despair. Love is the greatest canvas on which the drama of human life unfolds, the lever of human joys and sorrows. Whether it storms the heart or arrives by stealth to colonize our souls, love is at once creator and destroyer, trickster and magician.
ERC explores this most powerful of all emotions in a series of three concerts reflecting the myriad facets of love, its torments and bliss, and its power to bewitch gods and mortals.
More from our 2010-2011 Season:
– Tchaikovsky: None but the Lonely Heart: The Strange Love of Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck