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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  

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

“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 […]

Programme AT THE THÉÂTRE MUNICIPAL (9 rue Dénecourt, 77300 Fontainebleau) Saturday, 28 April, 8.30 pm  “La gloire et la Cendre” [Glory and ashes. Napoleon’s ultimate victory] Sunday 29 April 5pm “La mort de l’Aigle” [The death of the Eagle. Napoleon, from glory to exile] Reservation and information: 01 64 22 26 91 Book Fair (Saturday 28 April from […]

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 […]