Corteo

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Corteo (pronounced [coɹ·ˈtej·o]) is a Cirque du Soleil touring production that premiered in North America in 2005. Cortéo, which means "cortège" (funeral procession) in Italian, is a festive parade imagined by a clown at his own funeral.

1 Creators
2 Touring Information
3 Acts
4 Soundtrack
- 4.1 Track list
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Creators

Guy Laliberté - Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cirque du Soleil
Daniele Finzi Pasca - Creator and Director
Line Tremblay - Director of Creation
Philippe Leduc - Musical Director and Composer
Maria Bonzanigo - Musical Director and Composer
Jean-François Côté - Additional Composer
Roger Hewett - Additional Composer and Bandleader
Jean Rabasse - Set Designer
Dominique Lemieux - Costume Design
Dolores Heredia - Dramaturgical Analyst
Antonio Vergamini - Acting Coach
Hugo Gargiulo - Acting Coach
Martin Labrecque - Lighting Designer
Jonathan Deans - Sound Designer
Danny Zen - Acrobatic Rigging Designer
Nathalie Gagné - Makeup Designer

[edit] Touring Information

Corteo's 2007/2008 North American tour has already played in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Columbus and Denver. It will visit the following remaining cities:^[1]

City	Start date	End date
Portland, OR	4 March 2008	13 April 2008
Seattle, WA	24 April 2008	1 June 2008
Vancouver, BC	12 June 2008	6 July 2008
Calgary, AB	31 July 2008	7 September 2008
Ottawa, ON	24 September 2008	26 October 2008
Miami, FL	13 November 2008	28 December 2008
Tokyo, Japan	4 February 2009	5 May 2009

[edit] Acts

Opening

Chandeliers

Bouncing Beds

Mauro's Flight

Cyr Wheel

Little Horses

Cortege

Tightrope

Golf

Marionette

Culbuto

Helium Dance, i.e Valentyna's Flight

Teeterboard

Paradise

Crystal Glasses and Tibetan Bowls

Duo Adagio (watch it at youtube)

Juggling

Rhythmic Gymnastics (no longer performed)

Acrobatic Ladder

Aerial Straps

Originally performed as a solo Aerial Strap act in rotation by Veronika Teslenko. It is currently an Aerial Straps duo performed by Olesya Shulga and Dmytro Grygorov. Each incarnation of the act had its own musical piece.

Magical Flight (a.k.a Bicycle, Vols Magique)

Tournik

Finale

[edit] Soundtrack

The Soundtrack for Corteo was released on the 23rd of September, 2006 in Canada, and the 7th of October, 2006 in the US, under Cirque du Soleil Musique. Corteo's music was composed primarily by Philippe Leduc and Maria Bonzanigo, however additional composers such as Jean-François Côté and Michel A. Smith contributed to several pieces. In addition, Daniele Finzi Pasca is also featured as the lyricist. Corteo was one of the first Cirque CDs in which multiple composers were featured.

The Soundtrack features the contribution of 61 musicians and singers, a 16 piece choir and a 13 piece string section. Unlike other Cirque scores, Corteo's pieces are sung in Italian, French, and Spanish.^[2]