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Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment,” is a 1840 comic opera about a French orphan who falls for a young Swiss soldier during the Napoleonic wars. This new production which opens Opera Saratoga’s 2019 Summer Festival will feature the Argentinian bel canto tenor Santiago Ballerini in the role of Tonio. (Performances: 29 June, 1, 7 and 13 July at the […]

Festival Programme Wednesday 1 May – Concert at St Paul’s Cathedral at 7pm Free entry This concert will include piano solos, quartets, a cappella and soprano pieces, reviving music from the the Napoleonic and Georgian periods. Programme: Grétry, « La Victoire est à nous », quartet a cappella (1 min) Anon., “Hearts of oak”, unison quartet with piano […]

Programme André Grétry, La victoire est à nous (1783) La Reine Hortense, Partant pour la Syrie (1807) Nicolas Dalayrac, Veillons au salut de l’Empire (1787) André Grétry, Ou peut-on être mieux qu’au sein de sa famille (1769) “Mme M.” [sic], Le tombeau de Napoléon (avant 1838) Nicolas-Etienne Méhul, Cantate pour le mariage de l’Empereur, “Ô doux […]

A guided tour with historical costumes, retracing the footprints of the passage of Napoleon in the historic center of Milan (Italy) From the  Palazzo Reale to the Arco della Pace, via the Brera and the Castello Sforzesco, revisiting statues, memories and ancient bricks, Napoleon Bonaparte visits the city to bring it back to its former glory, taking […]

There will be four days of papers and three days of tours, including Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 July. The main topics are: the King of Rome, the year 1809, The (First) Congress of Vienna and Politics, Military Operations, Soldiers of War, Italy and Beyond, Political Consequences, Logistics and Research, Full programme here. For more information, […]

The Natural History Museum of the University of Pavia is organizing a guided tour, open to all, dedicated to Napoleon I and his stays in Pavia. Saturday, June 23, with meeting at 10.30am in Piazza Botta 10 in Pavia, you can access the ancient aristocratic residence of the Botta Adorno family that was considered the […]

“La Route du Prince Impérial” was inaugurated on 1 June 1996 to commemorate the time Louis-Napoleon, only son of Napoléon III and his wife the Empress Eugenie, spent in South Africa before his untimely death at the hands of Zulu warriors on 1 June 1879. The route follows the footsteps of the pilgrimage made by […]

Académie Symphonique de Paris Les Voix Impériales, Choir and Soloists Peter Hicks, Director Sara Kim, organist AU PROGRAMME Méhul, Le chant du retour pour la Grande Armée  Dalayrac/Boys, Veillons au salut de l’Empire  Catel, Chant triomphal pour la paix et l’anniversaire du Sacre  Grétry, Où peut-on être mieux qu’au sein de sa famille, extr. de […]

The “Petite Promenade” is a guided tour in the city of Trieste, organised as part of the project for the promotion of tourism and culture “Imperial Destinations”, dedicated to the presence of Napoleon Bonaparte and his family in the city and Friuli Venezia Giulia, created by Aps Communication and promoted together with PromoTurismoFVG. During the […]

To accompany the exhibition “Napoleon the Strategist” (see above), the Musée de l’Armée in Paris has organised a cycle of 14 concerts, from 5 April, designed to bring to life the atmosphere of battles and other sounds from the Napoleonic campaigns, with music composed during the Napoleonic period as well as later works that refer to it. From […]