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Singer / director Barbara Hannigan, actress Harriet Walter and playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker join forces with the London Sinfonietta to recreate the heady atmosphere of the Princesse de Polignac's Paris salons. Paris between 1910 and the 1920s was a hotbed of experimentation and creative dialogue between the arts, and this concert explores the important works that came out of the city's salons, hosted by great patrons such as Winnaretta Singer, aka la Princesse Edmond de Polignac. Central to the concert is Stravinsky's comic chamber opera Renard, in which a fox comes to a sticky end.