Le Parfum du Roi - The Monkey Dances

Description

What if the monkey from Kafka's report had already made its way to Europe much earlier? The ensemble Le Parfum du Roi embarks on an exciting journey through time, about 200 years before the events in Kafka's story, to another country, another culture, and another music. At the beginning of the 18th century, the monkey Rotpeter is captured. To escape the agonizing confinement of his cage, he sees only one way out: to become human. In a drunken stupor, he learns to speak, and the baroque dance art to the music of Lully, Couperin, and Rameau makes him socially acceptable. His rise leads him to the court of Louis XIV. In the splendor of Versailles, the Sun King becomes his shining role model. Just as Louis XIV denies his human nature to be fully king, Rotpeter denies his animal nature to be fully human. In doing so, he unwittingly becomes a witness to a dying era. Ensemble Le Parfum du Roi Johannes Knoll - Oboe & Direction Teodoro Baú - Viola da Gamba Sebastian Bausch - Harpsichord Michael Wolf - Acting & Scenic Reading Christopher Zimmer - Text & Concept Repertoire: François Couperin (1668–1733) Concerts royaux (1722) – Deuxième Concert in D major Prelude – Allemande fuguée – Courante – Air tendre – Gavotte – Air contrefugué – Échos François Couperin Pièces de viole (1728) – Première Suite in e minor Prelude – Allemande légère – Sarabande – Chaconne or Passacaille Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1670), LWV 43 – Suite Overture – March for the Ceremony of the Turks – Minuet – Gigue Jean-Baptiste Lully Armide (1686), LWV 71 – Passacaille in g minor (arrangement for oboe & basso continuo) Passacaille Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin (1727), RCT 5 – Suite in a minor Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Gigue Jean-Philippe Rameau Pièces de clavecin (1706), Suite in e minor Gavotte – 1st Double – 2nd Double – 3rd Double François Couperin (1668–1733) Concerts royaux (1722) – Quatrième Concert in e minor Prelude – Courante françoise – Sarabande – Rigaudon – Forlane Contributors and additional information: Ensemble Le Parfum du Roi

Highlights

• Fairy tale fantasy with Baroque music
• Inspired by Kafka's "A Report to an Academy"
• Ensemble Le Parfum du Roi under the direction of Johannes Knoll

General Information

The event takes place at Fachwerk Allschwil and takes the audience on a fascinating journey through time with the monkey Rotpeter. With music by Lully, Couperin, and Rameau, the story of a being that oscillates between human and animal is told.

Location

Fabrikstrasse 10, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland

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