Join us on Tuesday, November 12th for an evening of vocal and piano music and film screening at La Maison Française.
About the film:
In 1871, Babette flees the Commune of Paris and is taken in by Martine and Philippa, two elderly sisters in a small Norwegian town. The sisters are the daughters of the town's late minister and maintain the strict lifestyle of their father's Lutheran sect. Babette is instructed to cook simple northern dishes, but after winning the French lottery, she prepares a magnificent French feast for the sisters and their friends.
Themes
The story explores themes of human and cultural interaction, and how food prepared with intention and gratitude can transform people.
About the music:
The New York Opera Society’s "Babette's Feast" is a story about Nordic sobriety and French passion. When this collides, both comedy, tragedy, and sweet music ensue. Karen Blixen's story is a very popular and much-loved story about a remote community in the far north of Norway which attains a taste of the big world through Babette, a French exile. The story is about life, love, earthly and spiritual emotions, French cooking and opera, virtue and morality.
Music by Gisle Kverndokk, libretto by Øystein Wiik
Soprano: Colleen Daly, Tenor: Allan Palacios Chan, Piano: Joy Screier