24 Sep 2010
Location: Portstewart
Event Type: Concert
The Last Ballade: The story of Frederic Chopin and Georges Sand
Friday September 24th at 8pm
Relive the stormy end to one of the great romantic relationships. Chopin's music provides the background to a riveting drama about the composer's tempestuous affair with novelist and 'femme fatale' George Sand.
'The Last Ballade', directed by Roger Leach, offers audiences a dramatic insight, through the eyes of Chopin himself, into this extraordinary woman who has been variously described as both his muse and his 'vampire'.
Many of the pieces that Sand inspired, including the beautiful Berceuse, the famous 'Minute' Waltz and the F minor Ballade, are played live as part of the action as Michael Lunts portrays both Chopin the man and Chopin the musician in this unique fusion of drama and live music.
Michael Lunts has been combining music, both popular and classical, with his passion for drama for just about as long as he can remember, working in regional and West End theatre as both actor and Musical Director.
Tickets are £10, with a concessionary rate of £8, available from Flowerfield on (028) 7083 1400. The ticket price includes complimentary interval refreshments.
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