‘The Chevalier’ Review: A Music-Theater Portrait of Joseph Boulogne

‘The Chevalier’ Review: A Music-Theater Portrait of Joseph Boulogne

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Now, the composer Joseph Boulogne would be hailed as a Renaissance man: artist, athlete, intellectual, soldier. Born in Guadeloupe in 1745, the son of a white French plantation owner and an enslaved mother of Senegalese origin, Boulogne became a virtuoso violinist, prodigious composer, champion…

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