Carnival of the Animals

& Other Tales

  • ✺Dates

    February 1 & 2, 2025

  • ✺Location

    Fort Hill Performing Arts Center

This ballet features whimsical costumes and narration in the form of the delightful Ogden Nash poem.

Carnival of the Animals is set to Camille Saint-Saëns’ humorous musical suite of 14 movements.

Celebrate creatures from the ponderous elephant to the manic kangaroo to the plodding tortoise.

✺ SHOW DETAILS ✺

  • Approximately one hour.

  • Camille Saint-Saëns - Composer

    Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. After leaving the post twenty years later, he was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas.