The Confidence-Man from the Crusades to the

from the Crusades to the 17th century

where night after night he listened to master storytellers weave spellbinding tales around the dancing embers of lodge fires

Cortège and Air de Danse from L'Enfant Prodigue

As a teacher

The Confidence-Man from the Crusades to theOn April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman to win over his not entirely innocent dupes. The central character's shifting identities, as fluid as the river itself, reflect broader aspects of human