domingo, 3 de mayo de 2026

INTRODUCTION TO 'HAWAIʻI: A KINGDOM CROSSING OCEANS'. BRITISH MUSEUM. LYBIE, ATRIMOINE RÉVÉLÉ. IMA

Join lead exhibition curator Alice Christophe for a tour of 'Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans', exploring how an alliance formed over 200 years ago continues to shape our understanding of this Pacific island nation.

In November 1823, Liholiho (Kamehameha II), King of Hawaiʻi, set out from Honolulu to London with members of the royal Hawaiian court. Their voyage, across two oceans, sought to secure protection and alliance with the British Crown. 

It was a time of tremendous change, driven both internally and externally and as the presence of foreign powers rapidly increased in Hawaiian waters and lands.


 Through this major diplomatic mission, the Hawaiian Kingdom's representatives were also redefining Hawaiʻi's place in the world for the West, not as a distant and isolated group of islands in the North Pacific, but as a global nation with deep cultural roots in expansive international networks. 

 


The exhibition brings these histories into vivid focus by centring movements and stories initiated from Hawaiʻi itself. Building on years of collaboration with Native Hawaiian artists, practitioners and scholars, it traces the journeys of Hawaiian leaders to Britain, reframing these relationships on their own terms. 

Shining new light on exceptional objects and extraordinary stories, Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans is a celebration of the artistry and history of Hawaiʻi and embraces multiple ways of knowing and experiencing the ancestral and contemporary works on display.


https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions-events



Exposition

Libye, patrimoine révélé

Depuis près de cinquante ans, la mission archéologique française en Libye explore et valorise un patrimoine exceptionnel, de la préhistoire à l’époque médiévale, sur l’ensemble du territoire libyen. L'exposition illustre et documente leur travail.


Expositions & MuséeJusqu'au 20 octobre 2026

Libye, patrimoine révélé

À travers une sélection de photographies et de vidéos, cette exposition met en lumière le travail scientifique de longue durée…

DU 18E SIÈCLE À LA VAGUE K-POP, MUSÉE GUIMET. PALAZZETTO BRU ZANE, MAZEPPA, CLÉMENCE DE GRANDVAL




 Puissance culturelle majeure, la Corée du Sud modèle désormais les tendances et inspire une génération globalisée. 

Au sommet de cette vague, la K-Beauty impose une approche holistique de la beauté, typiquement coréenne, et établit une véritable esthétique. Dépassant la simple cosmétique, elle forge de nouvelles normes ainsi qu’une imagerie marquante et singulière.

Réunissant des chefs-d’œuvre issus des collections du musée Guimet et de grandes institutions sud-coréennes (peintures, photos, publicités, robes et accessoires de beauté du 18e siècle à nos jours) l’exposition « K-Beauty » en décrypte les codes et montre comment ceux-ci s’inscrivent dans une tradition séculaire, entre équilibre et vertu, naturel et sophistication.

À la fin du 18siècle, la Corée dominée par le courant néo-confucianiste célèbre une esthétique féminine particulière : vêtements fluides, peau pâle, maquillage et coiffures raffinées. 

Les peintres qui immortalisent ces beautés, dont Shin Yun-bok, participent à l’élaboration d’un patrimoine visuel qui influence durablement la culture populaire coréenne. Cette culture raffinée, où les cosmétiques puisent dans la pharmacopée traditionnelle, lie beauté, harmonie et équilibre intérieur.

Han Youngsoo (1933-1999), Myeongdong, 1958, Séoul, Fondation Han Youngsoo © Han Youngsoo

Marqué par des dominations et influences étrangères successives, le 20e siècle en Corée voit l’émergence de codes esthétiques nouveaux. Photographie, cinéma et industrie cosmétique naissante diffusent et ancrent ces nouvelles normes tandis que le « miracle économique coréen » met patrimoine, art et cosmétique au cœur du discours culturel.

Dès les années 2000, la Hallyu (la vague coréenne) consacre le soft power sud-coréen : la K-Beauty, mêlant tradition et innovation, marque le cinéma, la mode, la littérature mais aussi la K-Pop, et conquiert le monde entier.

La manche rouge © Dopamine, CreativeSUMM, Mikang Kang/ Haksan Publishing Co.,Ltd. © Éditions Albin Michel pour l’édition française, département bande dessinée, 2024

À travers cette exposition, les visiteurs découvriront comment s’est consolidée une esthétique proprement coréenne, dont certains canons - forgés depuis le royaume du Joseon tardif (1392-1910) - ont conservé leur attrait jusqu’à nos jours et ont fait l’objet d’hommages et de nombreuses relectures. « K-Beauty » met en lumière l’évolution mais aussi la pérennité du concept de beauté coréenne, de la seconde moitié du 18e siècle au monde contemporain globalisé.

Commissariat :

Claire Bettinelli, musée Guimet

Claire Trinquet Soléry, musée Guimet

Image : Accessoire capillaire, Donation-Lee-Young-hee ©GrandPalaisRMN (Musée Guimet, Paris),ThierryOllivie

Mazeppa Palazzetyto Bru Zane

Clémence de Grandval
Mihhail Gerts direttore
MÜNCHNER RUNDFUNKORCHESTER
CHOR DES BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS

Tassis Christoyannis Mazeppa
Nicole Car Matréna
Julien Dran Iskra
Ante Jerkunica Kotchoubey
Paweł Trojak L'Archimandrita
Serie 'Opera francese' vol. 46 | Registrazione in prima mondiale di BZ 1063
13/03/2026
2 CD - 157 pagine
00:00
-02:50

'Il soggetto di Mazeppa ha ispirato MIo Clémence de Grandval per scrivere una partitura davvero straordinaria, il cui successo causerà scalpore nel mondo musicale.' Fu con queste parole lusinghiere che la stampa accolse la prima dell'opera in cinque atti di una delle compositrici più frequentemente eseguite nella Francia della fine del XIX secolo. La sua carriera fu regolarmente segnata da recensioni lusinghiere e successi duraturi, che spaziavano da tutti i generi, dalla musica da camera all'oratorio e all'opera.

Tuttavia, Mazeppa, sebbene considerata opera testamentaria, non godette dell'onore di una prima all'Opéra di Parigi e dovette ricorrere a Bordeaux per raccogliere i frutti della gloria. Modello di concisione, questa potente e drammatica opera racconta in poco più di due ore l'apoteosi e la caduta del generale cosacco Ivan Mazeppa, un fuggitivo nell'Ucraina devastata dalla guerra. Si prevedeva che l'opera avrebbe avuto una lunga carriera, ma la successiva evoluzione del linguaggio musicale della Belle Époque, seguita dalla morte del compositore, fece sì che Mazeppa sprofondasse nell'oblio per più di un secolo. Era giunto il momento che il suo eroe tornasse in sella.

Registrato il 17 e 19 gennaio 2025 al Prinzregententheater di Monaco (Germania).
Éditions Choudens – Revisione: Palazzetto Bru Zane.

ERCOLE AMANTE, A L´OPÉRA DE PARIS. BREVE STORIA ERETICA DELLA MUSICA CLASSICA. ALESSANDRO BARICCO (AUTOR)

 

Les spectacles à l'affiche

Ercole amante

Antonia Bembo

du 28 mai au 14 juin 2026

Opéra Bastille

Image Ercole amante

Présenté pour la première fois en Europe dans une mise en scène, Ercole amante fait son entrée au répertoire de l’Opéra de Paris. Netia Jones s’empare de cette œuvre baroque où foisonnent dieux et éléments surnaturels pour mieux en révéler la modernité.



E UN LIBRO....



Agli antichi sembravano fuochi fatui, segni del divino, imprendibili e impossibili da classificare; secoli dopo altri pensarono invece a un materiale piuttosto grezzo presente in natura, che gli uomini potevano conquistare, plasmare, usare per pronunciare se stessi.

 Seguendo questa oscillazione fra armonia del Cosmo e paesaggio degli umani, fra perfezione e caos, Alessandro Baricco racconta in modo inedito, eretico, la conquista dei suoni: una storia europea, di musici europei.

 Un’impresa epica. Seguito ideale e in maggiore dei suoi Seminari della Tempesta – Quel che stavamo cercando e La Via della Narrazione –, proprio come I barbari e The Game.

Questa Breve storia eretica della Musica Classica trasforma una materia tradizionalmente colta in un racconto affascinante e comprensibile a tutti. “È una danza – comprenderla significa danzarla.”

VIDEO INAUGURATION DE L’EXPOSITION « BYBLOS, CITÉ MILLÉNAIRE DU LIBAN » À L’INSTITUT DU MONDE ARABE.

 




ETERNAL EMBRACE. FRIDA AND DIEGO, MET OPERA HOUSE

 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, art history’s greatest couple, find lasting love in the underworld in composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s captivating opera El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, set to a libretto by Nilo Cruz. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Met premiere of this beguiling story of love and death. By Matt Dobkin

In real life, Mexican artist Diego Rivera was denied his final wish: to be cremated and his ashes placed with those of Frida Kahlo, his third of four wives and the fellow artist with whom he would forever be linked. 

When Rivera died in 1957, at the age of 70, his family (and presumably his fourth and final wife) ignored his stated request on so-called religious grounds, and he was given a grand public funeral and burial in a special tomb in the Rotunda of Illustrious Men in Mexico City’s largest cemetery.

In the opera El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, however, which has its Met premiere on May 14, Rivera at last gets his wish, reuniting in the underworld with Frida on Mexico’s Day of the Dead.

“That was something that really stayed with me as I did my research,” says librettist Nilo Cruz. “Diego, at the end of his life, with that wish to be infused with his beloved.”..

https://www.metopera.org/discover/articles/eternal-embrace/

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 | OFFICIAL TRAILER IN SPANISH | APRIL 30 ...

 Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci return in The Devil Wears Prada 2, in theaters May 1. Watch the full trailer now.

Almost 20 years after making their iconic turn as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine in the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2006 phenomenon that defined a generation.


The film reunites the original main cast with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and introduces an all-new runway of characters including Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak and Conrad Ricamora. Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman also reprise their roles as “Lily” and “Irv” from the first film.

“The Devil Wears Prada 2” is produced by Wendy Finerman, and executive produced by Michael Bederman, Karen Rosenfelt and Aline Brosh McKenna. The film debuts exclusively in theaters May 1.


FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN — INTERVIEW | ELGAR VIOLIN CONCERTO · LPO · EDWARD GARDNER

 Violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann talks about Elgar’s iconic Violin Concerto, ahead of the digital-only release of his new BIS album on 15 May 2026.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Edward Gardner.

Video producer: Alex Barnes • Apple and Biscuit Recordings