Novembre 1918, l'Empire ottoman agonise. Epouse d'un secrétaire du sultan, Selim Bey, Leyla met sa vie en péril en hébergeant un archéologue allemand qui défend la cause nationale turque, Hans Kästner. Entre eux naît une grande passion. Leyla obtient le divorce, mais les conflits qui ravagent la ville s'interposent entre les deux amants.
Prix Historia du roman historique 2014. …
Professeur à l'université du Bosphore, Göktay s'engage en faveur des opprimés du régime turc, notamment la minorité kurde, et dénonce les dérives autoritaires du président Erdogan. Cependant, son épouse, Aula, enseignante de français, ne partage par son militantisme et n'aspire qu'à profiter de la douceur d'Istanbul avec leur petite fille. …
For all its exotically tinged, trademark Orientalism, so fashionable in late-19th-century France, Delibe's opera Lakmé is at heart a simple story of tragically misplaced love. This marvelous and sensitively wrought interpretation renders the intensity of that love story with a surprising emotional credibility. Conductor Michel Plasson allows the music's arching melodies to breathe and unfold leisurely, like a lovingly cultivated floral display; he even discovers hidden nuances within the formulaic fluff that pads Delibe's score. And his vision is shared by the outstanding principals here. As the titular Hindu princess, Natalie Dessay gives a jewel-like performance, full of stunningly shaped phrases and tapered notes that sound like spun silk (and one that can favorably compare with Joan Sutherland's account on London).
« Les moustiques viennent de la nuit des temps (250 millions d'années), mais ils ne s'attardent pas (durée de vie moyenne : 30 jours). Nombreux (3 564 espèces), volontiers dangereux (plus de 700 000 morts humaines chaque année), ils sont répandus sur les cinq continents (Groenland inclus). …
Dame Felicity Lott stars in a rollicking performance of Offenbach's operetta "La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein." The stage production was filmed in December 2004 at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris. The result is a kaleidoscope of artistry and comedy that should not be missed! This production goes back to the original version which had been adjusted and censored after it's premiere at the Theatre des Varietes in 1867.
Staged and costumed by Laurent Pelly, with sets by Chantal Thomas and choreography by Laura Scozzi, this production of La Belle Hélène never forgets for one moment that Offenbach’s parody of the origins of the Trojan war -clearly recognisable in his day as a satire on the moral laxity of Second Empire high society- is, above all, a supreme manifestion of his comic genius. From start to finish it combines a musically superb performance with a stream of visual humour that flows from Pelly’s core idea that the action all takes place in the imagination of a sleeping, sex-starved, suburban housewife. Dame Felicity Lott is magnificent as the woman who gets into bed beside her somnolent old husband and dreams of being the most beautiful woman in the world, entangled in amorous adventures with the virile young Paris, tastily portrayed by Yann Beuron. And just as dreams do not respect the normal limitations of logic, time and place, so her nighttime fantasies combine the everyday with the mythical, and muddle up Greece, ancient and modern.
Musica Baltica Volume 4 Johann Jeremias Du Grain was on familiar terms with the musical greats of his era. He learned the musical trade from Telemann, who was already famous at the time, and he assisted the very busy Handel with the composition of a festive cantata for the five hundredth anniversary of Elbing, his chosen place of residence. One hears traces of these illustrious surroundings in Du Grain's own cantatas, which Andrzej Szadejko and the Goldberg Baroque Ensemble are now presenting for the first time on this audiophile multichannel release in the Musica Baltica series. Du Grain's cantatas not only represent the very best of their times; they are also extraordinarily appealing.
A rebours de l'idée dominante qui dédouane Lénine pour mieux accabler Staline, S. Courtois établit comment le jeune intellectuel radical, marqué par l'exécution de son frère aîné sous le tsar, a pensé, voulu puis instauré une dictature idéologique impitoyable.
Grand prix de la biographie politique 2018.
Grand Prix du Livre d'Histoire 2018. …