Program 4: Love Letters

For the fourth installment in our series of Saint-Saens we travel to Argentina for the South American premier of his opera Samson and Delila.  Celebrate Valentine’s Day with the SFCE in a program of Argentine tango music with singer and dancers choreographed by Argentina tango dancer Andres Sevilla. The concert is narrated by tango scholar Jose Meeroff and takes listeners through the history of the tango from its seedy roots in the port of Buenos Aires to the ballrooms of Paris.  We expore the role of gender as the tango passes from being danced, composed and performed by men only to a complete reversal of roles in the modern day.

Take a beginning tango dance class with Andres Sevilla from 4:15-4:45pm for an additional $5 per person.