Ravel, Puccini, Messager, Gounod … and ten more
Musique classique francaise 1885-1900 was the subject of the first talk this year to the Brighton and Hove French Circle. Did you know that both Messager and Puccini wrote versions of Madame Butterfly?
Continuing his popular series exploring this key period in French cultural and political history, Christopher Doidge again entertained members and guests with stories of the lives and loves of the leading French composers of the late 19th Century.
There is another treat for fans of this era when Dr Karen Serres, Chief Curator at the Courtauld Gallery in London, returns in late March to talk to the Circle of neo-impressionist painter Georges Seurat.
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Image: Charles Gounod in 1890, detail of a photograph by Nadar, restored by Adam Cuerden. Source Wikimedia Commons.
