Troupe Vertigo: Cirque Fairytales
with the Minnesota OrchestraSat Mar 2 — Sun Mar 3, 2024
Orchestra Hall
Visually stunning acrobatics and vivid music combine in a visual and musical extravaganza featuring the Minnesota Orchestra and Troupe Vertigo, a Los Angeles-based circus-dance-theater group that dazzles audiences across the country with its powerfully choreographed performances. The whole family will be entertained by this mind-blowing, magical event!
A Few Things to Know
- "Our works are very much about putting a theatrical sensibility on top of circus to make the extraordinary somehow touchable" says Troupe Vertigo co-founder Aloysia Gavre.
- Beloved works including Modest and Igor Mussorgsky's galloping Night on Bald Mountain and Stravinsky's rapturous The Firebird pair perfectly with Troupe Vertigo's phenomenal prowess.
- The Los Angeles Times raves that Troupe Vertigo's "...dizzying acts defy gravity and leave its lucky audiences in awe."
Do you plan to bring young children?
All concerts are open to children ages 6 and older when accompanied by an adult. View more information.
The Grammy Award-winning Minnesota Orchestra, led by Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård—who is serving as music director designate during the 2022-23 season—is recognized for distinguished performances around the world, award-winning recordings and broadcasts, educational engagement programs, and commitment to building the orchestral repertoire of the future. Founded in 1903, the Orchestra has an extensive history of touring throughout Minnesota, nationally and abroad, including high-profile visits in recent years to Cuba, Europe and South Africa. Recording projects undertaken in the past two decades include complete cycles of symphonies by Beethoven, Sibelius and Mahler, all recorded under Osmo Vänskä, who is now the Orchestra’s conductor laureate.
Sarah Hicks is the Minnesota Orchestra’s principal conductor of Live at Orchestra Hall, a role in which she oversees planning for and conducts many concerts in the broad-spectrum series of popular music, jazz, Broadway classics, movie scores and other genres. She also conducted the Inside the Classics and Sam & Sarah series for ten seasons.
Hicks’ career has seen collaborations with a diverse range of artists, from Hilary Hahn and Dmitri Hvorostovsky to Rufus Wainwright, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson. She has been an artistic leader in concerts featuring artists from Minnesota’s internationally-renowned popular music scene—including shows with The New Standards, multiple sold-out performances with Dessa and a live-in-concert recording released on Doomtree Records, and collaborations with indie band Cloud Cult. A specialist in film music and the film in concert genre, she is passionate about creating concert experiences which combine sight and sound, and that welcome new audiences to the orchestral genre.
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