Adrienne D. Renee Bagby

Vous trouverez dans ce recueil : six contes, quelques illustrations, une bibliographie essentielle (Henri Gougaud, Philippe Camby entre autres) et …

Nous voudrions ici, selon la convention habituelle des présentations, examiner d'une façon très générale quelques-uns des problèmes que soulève l'étude que voici, et qui porte sur la constitution du français comme langue nationale à l'époque de la révolution démocratique bourgeoise de 1789.
Pourquoi et comment les Français que nous sommes (citoyens formellement égaux d'un même Etat national) parlent-ils «le français»? Et quelles sont les conséquences historiques de cet état de fait qui semble si peu mystérieux?

Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger is teaming up for two star-studded duets on Decca Records’ forthcoming Judy soundtrack. The star partners with Sam Smith for a totally unique version of one of Judy Garland’s best-loved numbers, ‘Get Happy’, and teams up with Rufus Wainwright for a beautiful rendition of ‘Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas’ – both newly-recorded especially for the album.

Celebrating the work of Italy's greatest musical dramatist, this set of 12 operas includes definitive performances from some of the finest Verdi singers of our age, in productions which reflect the contemporary richness of our perspective of the composer as both a man of his time, inspired to reflect the familial tensions and revolutionary fervor of his homeland, and also a man of theatrical genius as timeless as his adored Shakespeare, whose anti-heroes Macbeth and Falstaff stand as the poles of tragedy and comedy in this survey of modern stagings.

First seen at Washington National Opera, where Fleming shared the role with Sondra Radvanovsky [for my review, see The Donizetti Revival, Second Stage: Radvanovsky, Grigolo in Pascoe’s WNO “Lucrezia Borgia” – November 17, 2008], Pascoe’s production adds credibility to the opera’s storyline by positing that Lucrezia’s son Gennaro (stunningly sung by Michael Fabiano in his San Francisco Opera debut) and his sidekick Maffio Orsini are lovers…