From chrysanthemums to butterflies, the geisha has always fascinated writers, poets and musicians. The great composer Giacomo Puccini was fascinated by Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème, and brought the unforgettable [...]
Paris, 1650. The regency of Anne of Austria was gradually ending, between the rebellion and the Thirty Years’ War. Cardinal Mazarin organized Peace in Europe through the signing of the [...]
Splendid and ambitious, the Harmonia artificiosa is a work that reveals all the talent of its composer and marks the rising virtuosity of the violin. A collection of seven sonatas [...]
Silete Venti Naturalist Motet “Silete Venti” is a five-part motet for a soprano voice. It is probably inspired by Handel’s return to Italy in 1729. Recognized as one of the [...]
“Nigra Sum sed formosa” (I am black and I am beautiful) is a meeting between earthly and heavenly, gravity and elevation, past and present. Taken from the Song of Songs, [...]
In Paris, at the dawn of the 18th century, the Concert spirituel was created by the oboist Anne Danican Philidor.During the Parisian musical evenings of the Concert spirituel in 1750, [...]
Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are the first four concertos to open the collection of twelve violin concertos composed between 1723 and 1725 entitled Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The confrontation [...]
Feelings and torments, who could evoke them better than Henry Purcell?Passions and storms, who better to describe them than William Shakespeare? These two artists placed their genius at the service [...]
Figaro wishes to marry Suzanne. Danger lurks around her. As much and perhaps more than her lover, the young woman uses her talent to defend her cause and that of [...]
