Paris, July, 1794: “Today, 40 individuals had their heads cut off, including 16 Carmélite nuns from Compiègne.” That brief, contemporaneous note about a mass ...
The French Revolution changed many things beyond political systems, from a short-lived reorganization of the calendar to the invention of the metric system. The Paris Opera, that most royal of ...
In May of 1774, 15 years before the French Revolution, the 18-year-old Marie Antoinette ascended the throne as queen of France. Less than a month before that, German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck ...
“Even Plato banished poets from his Republic,” wrote the merciless French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre’s original French sprawls in huge letters across the show curtain of ...
LONDON (Reuters) - German tenor Jonas Kaufmann gave his legions of fans what they pay for in a revival of Umberto Giordano's French Revolution opera "Andrea Chenier" at Covent Garden on Tuesday that ...
San Francisco Opera Guild in collaboration with San Francisco Opera announced details of the upcoming Opera Ball 2016: La Révolution et L'Amour, celebrating San Francisco Opera's 94th season and the ...
Opera has always been a means for voicing political dissent. Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro criticized the aristocracy. Verdi’s operas reflected on Italy’s struggle for independence. John Adams wrote ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by My Favorite Page By Joshua Barone When Yannick Nézet-Séguin learned a few years ago that he would be the next music director of the Metropolitan Opera ...
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