Il Parle, Elle Chante—Love, Desire & Mystery
An Evening with Melissa Errico
and Adam Gopnik

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.

Part I: Love

This first concert of the series centers on love, a special preoccupation in France. It begins with the invention of the love song in the feminist medieval court of Eleanor of Aquitaine and winds its way through the long history of the French cult of love.

Melissa Errico will present her favorite French love songs—including Michel Legrand’s “Valse des Lilas,” among others—as well as examples of the American love of France, including Cole Porter’s “I Love Paris,” Sondheim’s portrait of Seurat, and additional delectable surprises.

Errico will also perform the world premiere of a love song written by Adam Gopnik and David Shire from a musical they are developing about Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Part II Desire and Part III Mystery of this three-part series will be announced later this fall.

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