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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 18/02/2021 to 31/12/2021Talk[Online event] The British Witnesses to Napoleon | Napoleon 200The death of Napoleon in far off St Helena in May 1821 brought to a crescendo twenty-five years of English-language publishing on the Emperor. Thousands of pages, including the Emperor’s will, Barry O’Meara’s Napoleon in Exile, and Emmanuel de Las Cases’ “Journal of Private Life and Conversations of Napoleon” (known in French as the “Memorial”) […]
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from 02/09/2020 to 15/11/2020Exhibition, TalkImperial elegance. Souvenirs from the wardrobe of Empress EugenieOn 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 11/07/2020 to 11/10/2020Exhibition, Guided TourAnd Eugenie created Biarritz, an imperial townPresentation This summer, Biarritz pays homage to its greatest muse, Empress Eugenie de Montijo: it was for her that her husband, Emperor Napoleon III, had the Imperial Palace built in 1854, which became the Hôtel du Palais, one of the jewels of the city. The exhibition is an invitation to discover more about the periods […]
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26/03/2020TalkWhose history? from the Battle of Waterloo to the Battle of CinderlooRead 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 DaysThe 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 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 IIIFestival 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 WaterlooProgramme 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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24/03/2019Guided Tour, Theatrical EventNapoleon’s back in Milan!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 […]