What’s in Bataclan's name? The massacre ISIS perpetrated Friday night in Paris is named after an operetta by Jacques Offenbach. From “Ba-Ta-Clan”. Offenbach was the son of a synagogue cantor, who came from Germany to study at the Paris Conservatoire when he was 14. The libretto was written by Ludovic Halévy, son of a Parisian Jew. “Ba-Ta-Clan,” first performed in Paris in 1855, is a wacky show in one act – a chinoiserie musicale with stretches of gibberish and of fake Italian mocking grand opera. The plot involves three apparently Chinese characters with silly names who reveal to one another that they are really French and have been compelled to pretend they are Mandarins, and a fourth character, supposedly the emperor, who also turns out to be French, a bumpkin with ambitions to rule – in mockery of Napoleon III. “Ba-Ta-Clan” was Offenbach’s first major hit. It was also performed in German in Vienna 1860 as “Tschin Tschin” and, “billed as an “extravaganza” as “Ching Chow Hi” in English in London in 1865 and on Broadway in 1870. More on http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/poem-of-the-week/1.686160 15 Novembre 2015 https://instagram.com/p/-Gu4Tuj4E8/ Lire la suite
Paris is about joy and life. Peace for Paris. Dessin de Jean Jullien. 14 Novembre 2015 https://instagram.com/p/-DpAnaD4F_/ Lire la suite
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