February 17-20 & 24-27, 2011
Hershey Felder as Monsieur Chopin
The Music of
Fryderyk
Chopin
Text by Hershey Felder
Directed by Joel Zwick
Scenic Design by Yael Pardess
Lighting Design by Richard Norwood
Projection Design by John Boesche
Production Manager/Technical DIrection by Matt Marsden
Lighting Director/Assistant Lighting Design by Margaret Hartmann
Created by the same team that brought George Gershwin Alone to life, Monsieur Chopin begins at Fryderyk Chopin’s salon at 9 Square d’Orléans in Paris. Monsieur Chopin will teach a piano lesson that actually took place on March 4, 1848, just days after the February 1848 revolution. As the piano lesson unfolds, he reveals secrets about the art of the piano and composition, as well as secrets about himself. Considered by his contemporaries, and now by history, as the true “Poet of the Piano,” Monsieur Chopin features some of the pianist-composer’s most beautiful and enduring music.
