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Carnival Of The Animals: From The Life Of A Fantasy
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His last will and testament says categorically: one performance only! Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival Of The Animals was supposed to be played only once, in March 1886 at the carnival. Today, the popular suite overshadows the rest of his oeuvre. To mark the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death in 2021, we tell the whole story from the perspective of the work itself: the painful birth of the “grand zoological fantasy” in the composer’s head, its satirical spoofs of his famous colleagues. And the constant fear of disappearing in a drawer after and dying an early death.
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