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Paul Shipper rehearses for the upcoming performance of "Les Voyages de l'Amour" in Cornell's Barnes Hall.

The Department of Music will present three miniature baroque operas about love around the world, March 11 at 3 p.m. in Bailey Hall. "Les Voyages de l'Amour: Operatic Flights From 18th-Century France" will transport audience members to 1736 at the Paris Opera, where operatic spectacles always mingled dancing with singing.

The program features works composed from 1697 to 1736 by Nicolas Clérambault ("Orphee"), André Campra ("L'Espagne") and Jean-Philippe Rameau ("Les Sauvages"), choreographed and directed by Catherine Turocy, artistic director of the New York Baroque Dance Company.

The singers are nationally renowned early-music specialists Rebecca Choate Beasley, Ross Hauck, Paul Shipper and Owen McIntosh, with dancing in period style by New York Baroque Dance Company members and student dancers.

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Catherine Turocy and Paul Shipper sing a duet.

The music will be performed on both modern and period instruments by the Cornell Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Chris Kim, and Les Petits Violons, conducted by concertmaster and guest baroque violinist Karina Fox. Members of the Cornell Chamber Singers will comprise the chorus.

A preconcert talk at 2 p.m. by musicologist Damien Mahiet, Ph.D. '11, will feature rarely seen images from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in Kroch Library.

Admission is $15 for adults and $8 for students. Tickets are available online at http://www.BaileyTickets.com, at Ticket Center Ithaca (171 The Commons, 607-273-4497) and at the door.

The collaborative project is produced by Rebecca Harris-Warrick and Mathieu Langlois of the Department of Music, and is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, French Studies Program and the Cornell Council for the Arts, with support from the Institute for European Studies, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University Library and the Departments of Romance Studies and Theatre, Film and Dance. Information: http://www.facebook.com/events/325030397542946/.