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from 05/10/2021 to 06/10/2021Concert[2021 Année Napoléon] Death and Imperial Transfiguration: Napoleon’s Triumph(s)
Programme of the two concerts Triomphe(s) de Napoléon 5 and 6 October 2021, at 8pm – Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides Book your tickets! Académie symphonique de Paris (Jérôme Treille, direction) Chœur Les Voix impériales Soloist : Véronique Chevallier Andrew Dewar, organ Thierry Lentz, narrator Peter Hicks, direction La Marseillaise (version Berlioz) Allons enfants, Amour sacré, Guerriers pour toujours dans l’histoire… […]
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from 18/06/2021 to 31/10/2021Exhibition, FestivalNapoleon and Bertrand, the return of the heroes
Entitled “Napoléon et Bertrand, le retour des héros” [“Napoleon and Bertrand, the return of the heroes”], this retrospective will bring together the emblematic works of the two men, from their stay on St Helena between 1815 and 1821, until the Return of Napoleon’s Mortal Remains (“Retour des Cendres”) in 1840. Paintings, prints and engravings, furniture, […]
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from 07/03/2020 to 08/03/2020Festival, TalkEast Midlands Napoleonic Days
The event will be hosted in the former drill hall of the South Notts Hussars (stair access). Named in reference to the period, not just to the man himself, the weekend will not only have a military focus; there will be costume balls as well as cannon balls! Saturday’s main event will be the NG13 […]
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from 07/09/2019 to 22/09/2019FestivalSarzana Napoleon Festival 7 – 22 Sept 2019
The Sarzana Napoleon Festival (Italy) will with a programme of historical re-enactments, plays, Frsit Empire ball, book presentations, exhibitions, and a gastronomic food market of French Regional specialities. website in italian
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from 20/07/2019 to 21/07/2019Festival, Re-enactmentHutingdonshire History Festival and Napoleonic Re-enactment
Join the Napoleonic Association at their biggest event of the year! Huge living history at the Riverside Park Huntingdon all weekend and a battle Saturday and Sunday afternoon at Hinchingbrooke Park. There is very limited parking at Hinchingbrooke Country Park, parking will only be available for disabled badge holders and those reenactors who […]
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from 29/06/2019 to 13/07/2019Concert, Theatrical EventDonizetti’s “Daughter of the Regiment” (Saratoga Springs, New York)
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 […]
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from 01/05/2019 to 05/05/2019Concert, FestivalSt Helena Music Festival: Napoleon and George III
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 […]
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05/04/2019Concert, Theatrical EventExceptional concert > Napoleonic music in Waterloo
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 […]
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from 24/11/2018 to 25/11/2018Exhibition, FestivalNapoleon, man of the pen and avid reader, an exhibition at the History Book Fair in Versailles
On this occasion the Fondation Napoléon will be presenting at the Hôtel du département, Versailles a small exhibition “Napoléon, homme de plume et grand lecteur” [“Napoleon, man of the pen and avid reader”] with items from its collection: autograph letters and books from Napoleon’s library – and will also spotlight the 15-volume edition of the General […]
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from 28/05/2018 to 03/06/2018Commemoration, Tour22nd French week: La Route du Prince Impérial, Louis Napoléon, Commemorations in South Africa
“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 […]