CANCELLED: UChicago Presents: The Boston Camerata

The Boston Camerata in The Night's Tale

April 17, 2020 | 7:30PM
International House
$38 | $30 UCID | $20 under 35 | $10 students

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Due to concerns over the transmission of the novel Coronavirus and in accordance with University, City, State, and CDC guidance, the University of Chicago Presents has canceled this performance in the interest of public health and safety.

Ticket holders will be contacted by UChicago Presents and the UChicago Arts Box Office regarding refunds.

The Night's Tale: A Tournament of Love

Post-concert talk with Jonathan Lyon

In Europe in the Middle Ages, centuries before easy entertainment like television’s rivalries and relationship intrigues of Game of Thrones, lords and ladies gathered at tournaments for diversion. At these events, daytime was the domain of men, where knights jousted and competed for glory; evenings were guided by women, who engaged with knights and lords in music and dance. Mutual attraction sparked during the day culminated in the evening’s varyingly passionate, aggressive, and playful rites of courtship. 

With “A Night’s Tale: A Tournament of Love,” led by director, singer, and scholar Anne Azema, the Boston Camerata brings the narration of such a day. The production is inspired by Le Tournoi de Chauvency, a poem by trouvere Jacques Bretel about the tournament that drew over 500 of the greatest knights from Germany and France to Lorraine, France, in 1285.

Employing Bretel’s descriptions as cues for songs from the medieval French troubadour and folk traditions, the Camerata’s hurdy-gurdy, harp, fiddles, voices, and narration tell compelling tales of courtly love and chivalry.

Enrich your experience with an optional special medieval-inspired dinner at La Petite Folie and a post-concert talk-back with Anne Azema and UChicago Associate Professor of Medieval History Jonathan Lyon.

Persons with disabilities who need assistance should contact the Office of Programs and External Relations in advance at 773-753-2274 or i-house-programs@uchicago.edu

Supported in part by the France Chicago Center, UChicago Arts, and the International House Global Voices Program at the University of Chicago.