Monsieur Chopin features the romantic story and music of the Polish pianist-composer Fryderyk Chopin and begins at Chopin’s salon at 9 Square d’Orléans in Paris. Monsieur Chopin will teach a piano lesson that actually took place on 4 March 1848, just days after the February 1848 revolution. As the piano lesson unfolds, he reveals secrets about the art of the piano and composition, as well as secrets about himself. Considered by his contemporaries, and now by history, as the true “Poet of the Piano,” Monsieur Chopin features some of the pianist-composer’s most beautiful and enduring music.
“In his finest moments, Felder carries a rapt audience along on a wave of true, powerful, and wordless passion.”
~ Boston Globe
“Monsieur Chopin is a passionate and personal theater piece created by one of the few artists who could conceivably perform it. Bravo, indeed.”
~ Hartford Courant
“Emotionally charged and glorious.”
~ Chicago Sun-Times
“Entertaining and enlightening. Monsieur Chopin reminds us that music can sustain an artist’s soul the way no person or country ever could.”
~ Chicago Daily Herald