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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 […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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3 concerts “Music at the Museum” Sunday 18 March 2018, 4pm > “Viennese Spring” Music by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert Marnuela Matis, violin – Laura Manca, cello – Maria Grazia Petrali, fortepiano Sunday 15 April 2018 4pm > “Reading companions” Musical meetings at the Vienna First School Music by Vanhal, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven Mario Lacchini, flute […]

The full presentation of the Festival in French General practical information (in English) Programme: Saturday 30 September 4pm Introduction to the concert by Brigitte François-Sappey, musicologist “L’Oiseau prophète Nature et musique aux temps romantiques” 5.30pm concert Romantic escapes in the forest of Fontainebleau Chamber Choir Les Elements Corine Durous, piano Joël Suhubiette, direction 8.30 pm concert […]

Programme: – André Grétry, “La victoire est à nous” (1783) An opera chorus from “La caravane du Caire” reworked into a song of victory for Revolutionary and then Napoleonic armies. – Queen Hortense, ‘Partant pour la Syrie’, (1807) Written almost on a napkin on a corner table by the daughter of the Empress Josephine, this […]