What's On : 102
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from 19/05/2021 to 20/05/2021Commemoration, Concert, Theatrical Event[2021 Année Napoléon] Death and Imperial Transfiguration: Napoleon’s Triumph(s)
Programme of the two concerts Triomphe(s) de Napoléon Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 May 2021, at 8pm – Cathedral of Saint-Louis des Invalides Académie symphonique de Paris Jérôme Treille, direction Chœur Les Voix impériales Soloist : Véronique Chevallier Sarah Kim, 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 02/09/2020 to 15/11/2020Exhibition, TalkImperial elegance. Souvenirs from the wardrobe of Empress Eugenie
On July 11, 1920, Eugenie de Montijo, a personality who marked her time, died in Madrid. A century later, the Château de Compiègne, where the last Empress of the French lived part of her life, pays homage to her through a series of events: exhibition of her most beautiful dresses in the ballroom gallery, a […]
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from 11/05/2020 to 31/12/2020Exhibition, OtherCovid-19: Museums re-opening
Musée Napoléon Thurgovie/Napoleonmuseum – Arenenberg (link in English) 12 May 2020 Musée de l’image à Épinal (link in French): 12 May 2020 Musée Masséna (link in French): 13 May 2020 Waterloo Memorial (link in English): 20 May 2020 Musée de la guerre de 1870 de Loigny-la-bataille (link in French): end of May 2020, opening with a new exhibition “Napoleon […]
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26/03/2020TalkWhose history? from the Battle of Waterloo to the Battle of Cinderloo
Read more about the uprising. 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Wellington Orbit Station Road Wellington TF1 1BY UK To learn more, call in to the Wellington Orbit in Station Road, visit wellingtonorbit.co.uk or call 01952 743377. £4.50 (incl. drink)
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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 17/08/2019 to 18/08/2019Family, Re-enactmentNapoleon 250: event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youth
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth*, the Waterloo Memorial 1815 is organising an event based on Napoleon’s and Wellington’s youth. This event will immerse visitors in the lives of civilians and soldiers at the end of the 18th century, with demonstrations of crafts such as leather tanning, basket weaving and embroidery as well as […]
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from 26/07/2019 to 31/12/2020OtherExperience the “Retour des cendres” in 3-D at the Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe was ordered by Napoleon I in 1806. Exiled to St Helena in 1815, the Emperor died 15 years before the monument was completed (in 1836). It was in a spirit of reconciliation between all French people that King Louis-Philippe decided, in 1840, to have the Emperor’s body brought back to France on board the famous frigate Belle […]
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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 08/04/2019 to 19/04/2019FamilyNapoleonic Easter at Fort Nelson (UK)
Children can pretend to be soldiers and practice drill formations under the command of our drill sergeant. Then the young recruits can test their skills firing flintlock muskets and cannons in a shooting range, and have a go at playing traditional games of the period. History is also brought to life in the Guard Room, […]
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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 […]