Histoire du Soldat: Stravinsky, Cabaret-style, by Lar Lubovitch and Le Train Bleue at Galapagos.
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Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale). Pictured L-R: Brian Ellingsen (double bass), Tim Fain (violin), Attila Joey Csiki, Nicole Corea, Reid Bartelme. Photo by Steven Schreiber.
Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier’s Tale, from 1918), a two-performance, one-evening event atGalapagos in Dumbo last week, was one of those only-in-New-York performances that restores one’s faith in humanity, even on a wicked sleety night. This hour-long work by Stravinsky was assembled into a cabaret-scaled production by conductor Ransom Wilson, with an orchestra of seven (the excellent new ensemble Le Train Bleu), three actors, and choreography by Lar Lubovitch for Reid Bartelme, Nicole Corea, and Attila Joey Csiki. Soldat recounts the story of a soldier who, returning home, makes a deal with the devil, resulting in amusing consequences and solemn regrets.
