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" Joyeuse chasse aux livres ! " Ainsi l'écrivaine Sibylle Lewitscharoff souhaite-t-elle la bienvenue au lecteur de ce volume. Une chasse aux livres, comme un jeu enfantin dont émanerait une joie mêlée d'ivresse. Par un mystérieux sortilège, il suffirait qu'on en trouve un pour que trois autres apparaissent à sa place. On en aurait pour toute une vie.
Ici, la partie de chasse se joue à treize. …

In 2013, he mesmerised Europe with his performance of “L’Essenziale” on the Eurovision stage. Six years later, and Marco Mengoni is doing much the same with his new music. Now, the Italian star has released the new extended album Atlantico / On Tour, which includes three new singles and live renditions of some of the star’s greatest hits. This latest album follows on from his fifth studio album Atlantico, released last November. Like his previous four LPs, the album went to number one on the Italian charts and was certified double platinum.

According to Berlioz, Spontini was – after Gluck – the greatest genius of French music to pave the way for the Romantic era. And it may well be that the little-known Olympie, premiered in 1819 and subsequently revived in 1826 under the modified title Olimpie, had a greater influence than we have hitherto imagined on the massive upheaval that was to set French opera on the path of the modern ‘grand opéra’. From start to finish, this finely polished score, with its astonishing orchestration, is full of spectacular effects that clearly look forward to Les Troyens of Berlioz.