Mercury Baroque -  Exotique!

Saturday, October 9, 2010; 8:00 pm
Wortham Center, Cullen Theater

The opening concert of Mercury Baroque’s 10th season. Exotique! features beautiful French Baroque orchestral stage music meant to portray exotic foreign lands. Lully’s satirical ballet Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (The Middle-Class Gentleman)  features Turkish-influenced music, including the popular “Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs”. The four acts of Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes each feature a different setting, including another Turkish-influenced act, as well as portrayals of the Incas in Peru and the savages of America.

Lully – Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Rameau – Les Indes Galantes

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