The Andrée Expedition

3301 Price Avenue,Cincinnati OH 45205

22 January, 2022

Description

In its second semi-staged song production, CSI joins forces with UC’s College-Conservatory of Music to bring this dramatic story to life. Andrée’s arctic balloon expedition of 1897 was an effort to reach the North Pole in which all three Swedish expedition members – Salomon Andrée, Knut Frænkel, and Nils Strindberg – perished. After beginning the expedition on July 11, their records break off three months later. Thirty-three years later, their bodies were discovered and returned to Sweden, at which time the diaries and notebooks of Andrée and Strindberg were published. In 1982, American composer Dominick Argento composed the 40-minute song cycle depicting this harrowing journey through a commission from The Schubert Club of St. Paul. Most of the texts comes directly from the diary entries of the explorers; Frænkel left no account behind, but the text assigned to him comes partially from his companions’ writings. In its second semi-staged song production, CSI joins forces with UC’s College-Conservatory of Music to bring this dramatic story to life through an intimate audience experience. Artists Edward Nelson, baritone Marie-France Lefebvre, piano Vince DeGeorge, director Learn more and meet the artists. Greater Cincinnati's source for art song performed at the highest levels of artistry and innovation.