Carnival of the Animals
with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
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✺Dates
January 26th, 2025
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✺Locations
Hochstein Performance Hall
This ballet features whimsical costumes and narration in the form of the delightful Ogden Nash poem.
Carnival of the Animals is set to Camille Saint-Saëns’ humorous musical suite of 14 movements.
Celebrate creatures from the ponderous elephant to the manic kangaroo to the plodding tortoise.
✺ SHOW DETAILS ✺
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Approximately 25 minutes
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Camille Saint-Saëns - Composer
Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. After leaving the post twenty years later, he was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas.