The electric ferry Movitz is a new type of ferry developed in order to bring a contribution as regards reducing the sea traffic gas emissions. The ferry is equipped with two electric engines and can carry up to 120 passengers. It has also been conceived to be particularly quiet, which will also contribute to reducing […]
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« Over the course of a slow twilight »: such is Hofmannsthal’s stage direction for the representation of Elektra, Richard Strauss’ one-act tragedy, of unbelievable violence and darkness. Such is also the expression currently in use to describe the ultimate splendours of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the cosmopolitan Europe in the early years of the XXth […]
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For this concert, the artists of the Academy have chosen classics of the American and Anglo-Saxon repertoire. Particularly the Hermit songs and Dover Beach by Samuel Barber, the old American songs by Copland and the Songs of travel by Vaughan-Williams.
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Written in 2021 and staged the year after, The Interrogation was created together by Édouard Louis et Milo Rau on the theme of doubt and failure. « The heart of drama is the same as of literature : it aims to show what is difficult to show. Drama should not be a safe place », says the first […]
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Opting for a natural lifestyle is the best way to protect our environment. And, one of the best means is to choose ecological elements such as straw for the construction of a structure. For some time already, populations have understood and approved this principle, and therefore everyone urges to be as ecological as possible when […]
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After the retrospective exhibitions dedicated to the Swedish artists, Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn, and to the Golden Era of danish painting, the Petit Palais Museum continues its presentation of Nordic artists. The present monography, organized in cooperation with the Helsinki Ateneum Art Museum , is dedicated to Albert Edelfelt, one of the glories of […]
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Year after year, the list of species threatened or extinct gets longer, alongside the decline in biodiversity. Nevertheless some of them seem to refuse to submit to this fate. In 2021, several species, which were considered extinct, reappeared. For example, it is the case of the giant otter in Argentina observed for the first time […]
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