Festivals

Season 2012-2013

Antiquity, mythology and Romanticism

22 September 2012 - 4 November 2012

From the Classical colonnades of the Petit Trianon to the architecture of the church of La Madeleine and the Palais Garnier, the Romantic period was permeated by the influence of Antiquity. In music, it runs in a continuous thread from [...]

Le salon romantique

02 February 2013 - 28 February 2013

Le salon romantique also provides an opportunity to develop, or strengthen, the partnerships that the Palazzetto has initiated “extra muros”, particularly with international music competitions. Presented during the Carnival period, the festival reflects the effervescence that characterises Venice at that [...]

Théodore Gouvy, between France and Germany

20 April 2013 - 31 May 2013

Théodore Gouvy was born into a French-speaking family in the Sarre, shortly after it became part of Prussia, following the fall of the Empire in 1815. Through the vagaries of history, he was thus Prussian by birth, instead of French. [...]

Operas

01 July 2012 - 01 June 2013

The tragédie lyrique and the ballet, which came into being in the eighteenth century under Louis XIV, were specifically French genres. This form of total theatre, involving poetry, music, dance, scenery, costumes, and machinery showing an unprecedented degree of ingenuity, [...]