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Concert | Desire — Melissa Errico & Adam Gopnik (Love, Desire & Mystery)

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Melissa Errico & Adam Gopnik

Love, Desire & Mystery — Il Parle, Elle Chante

With Tedd Firth on piano


World Premiere

Desire

Thursday, January 28, 2021


Acclaimed Broadway actress and chanteuse Melissa Errico, working in collaboration with New Yorker essayist and lyricist Adam Gopnik, presents a series of three concerts weaving together music and conversation.


The trio of concerts delves into every aspect of the great French obsession: l’amour fou, or crazy, overpowering, all-consuming love. Through these evenings Errico and Gopnik investigate and illuminate the cycle that France first offered the world—of how love becomes desire, how desire is cloaked in mystery, and how then the mystery of desire reveals the madness of love again.


This second evening in the series focuses on desire and considers the French art of seduction and its American responses. In particular, it dives into the ways sex has become entangled in other matters of pleasure and life. Appetites for love and food, a classic French pairing, take up much of the evening, with songs from Adam Gopnik’s musical Our Table and the Broadway adaptation of The Baker’s Wife. The second half of the evening focuses on the equally potent French duo of seduction and fashion. Selections include Funny FaceCoco, French art songs, and the best of Broadway.


Love was presented on October 14, 2020 — watch on demand


Mystery will be presented LIVE from FIAF on May 6, 2021.


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  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    85 minutes
  • Language
    English, French
  • Country
    United States
  • Producer
    Clementine Guinchat
  • Cast
    Melissa Errico, Adam Gopnik, Tedd Firth