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The little pleasures of Seicento
The beginning of the 17th century in Italy saw the emergence of many instrumental forms, testimony of the emancipation of instruments in relation to vocal music.
The Italian language illustrates this phenomenon in the terms cantata, sonata and canzone.
This programme enables us to discover the canzo...
The Musketeers at the Convent
Opérette in 3 acts by Louis Varney
Libretto by Jules Prével & Paul Ferrier adapted by Jérôme Deschamps
based on a vaudeville by St-Hilaire and Dupont entitled "L'habit ne fait pas le moine"
Created in Paris, at the Bouffes-Parisiens, on March 1880
"Musketeers! In a convent!", Residents not that ho...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIII
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIII, who chose the site and built the first castle, was a musician and a good dancer in the Court Ballets. He favored the development of royal m...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XIV
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
Louis XIV established the Comedy-Ballet then the lyric tragedy and the academies. He gave an unequaled scope to sacred music and brought theater to the hear...
The night of the Kings: Royal festivities in the time of Louis XV
Jordi Savall takes over the three prestigious rooms of the castle, to honor the three Kings who created the architecture of Versailles.
With Louis XV it was the century of Voltaire and Rameau who became passionate about the Arts, and the King continued the tradition by being fond of par...
The Plants That Heal Us
According to the WHO, 75% of French people have used natural medicine at least once. Faced with the adverse effects of conventional medicines, the French are looking for other ways to heal themselves, and herbal medicine is gaining in popularity. These plants are found in all forms: teas, tinctures,...
The ROYAL CONCERT OF THE NIGHT
Ensemble Correspondances, with Sébastien DAUCE (organ, harpsichord and direction), performs the Royal Concert of the Night, based on "Royal Ballet of the Nuict, danced by his Majesty on February 23, 1653", who lives for the first time Louis XIV appear as Sun King.
Concert recorded on November 30,...
THE TAHITI GRAFFITI FESTIVAL: who will be the world’s best graffiti artist?
In May 2015, thirty graffiti artists took part in a unique competition in a dream setting: the Ono’u International Graffiti Festival in Tahiti. For 4 days, they battled it out in a series of challenges, with spray paint their only weapon.
Under the watchful eye of a prestigious jury of photograph...
The Vaujours Kamikazes, Nuclear Sorcerer’s Apprentices
Opened in 1955 on the initiative of General de Gaulle, the Centre d’Etudes Atomiques de Vaujours (Vaujours Atomic Studies Centre) actively contributed to the creation of the French atomic bomb. In 1997, Jacques Chirac closed this site, located just 15 kilometers from Paris.
Now abandoned, the sit...
The wings of the Loire river
This is one of the most sensational duck hunts, taking place on one of the finest and noblest rivers of France and an exceptional World Heritage site, the Loire. Portraits of the hunters allow us to discover this wild river between Orleans and Tours. We accompany them as they hunt waterfowl, through...
