A bedtime story every night, for one thousand and one nights… This is young Scheherazade’s plan to save her own life and the lives of many other girls in her kingdom: she will marry the evil Sultan Shahryar and tell him a story every evening but not reveal the ending...
Sometimes, things can seem so similar that we struggle to notice the small differences. Even when we stop to take a closer look, these differences seem to vanish, leaving us with the feeling that everything is the same. But then, upon even closer inspection, we realise it is not...
With juggling, humour, poetry, and the company of “La Cervantona” and “El Cervantillo,” two comedians from the Spanish Golden Age, we transport families to some of the episodes of Don Quixote that inspired the music of German composer Telemann.
Programme:
J. B. Lully, Chaconne des Scaramouches
G. P. Telemann, Suite Burlesque de Quixotte
With compositions by Maurice Ravel, this concert in the Family Music Series invites you to enjoy tales that have left their mark on more than a few generations, like Sleeping Beauty, Little Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast.
Programme:
Maurice Ravel:
Ma mère l’oye...
This is the story of a bird with powers. It does everything it can to teach its fellow forest dwellers about the importance of the nature around them where they make their home.
A reluctant lumberjack, a naive princess, a distracted lion, a scrap metal collector who could...
When Pulcinella takes out his old violin and begins to sing and play like only he can, a story begins that narrates this musical tale for families where music and words join forces to breathe life into the characters.
This work is an adaptation by Fernando Palacios of the Pulcinella Suite,...
