Brooklyn Academy of Music
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Mark Morris Dance Group
MMDG Music Ensemble and the Choir of Trinity Wall Street with Downtown Voices
Colin Fowler | conductor
Choreography by Mark Morris

On a darkened stage, two dancers collide in a burst of light, music, and color—and from this encounter, an enchanting world is born. Hailed as Mark Morris’s undisputed masterwork since its US premiere here at BAM in 1990, L’Allegro conjures with radiant simplicity a mythic landscape of graces, gods, and lovers. Set to Handel’s soaring interpretation of Milton’s Arcadian poetry, Morris’s choreography draws deep from Greek and Roman motifs while remaining, somehow, timeless. With sopranos Yulia Van Doren and Sarah Brailey, tenor Brian Giebler, and bass-baritone Joseph Charles Beutel.

Returning home to Brooklyn for the first time in more than a decade, L’Allegro promises an ebullient evening of quintessential Mark Morris. Ancient yet youthful, Baroque yet effortlessly natural, it’s an intricate feast for the senses; a meditation on innocence and experience to warm the spirit after so many months of still bodies and darkened stages.

Peter Jay Sharp Building
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Brooklyn, NY

Thu, Mar 24 at 7:30pm
Fri, Mar 25 at 7:30pm
Sat, Mar 26 at 7:30pm
Sun, Mar 27 at 3pm

Tickets start at $35