Our 2025 Projects

We share with you our list of projects for 2025, which will be our second calendar year of activity.

 

It's ambitious, but can only be achieved with your support, participation or donations.

 

All our events and actions will be broadcast and archived on our website for the widest possible sharing without barriers, even for those who can't be there "in loco".

 

We want our audience to be as large as possible, regardless of your geographical location.

 

  • Professor Patrick Barbier will be back for two lectures, this year set in the 19th century, on two opera sisters who left their mark on the history of opera: Maria Malibran and Pauline Garcia-Viardot. Both daughters of the famous tenor Manuel Garcia, their fates were very different.

 

  • We'll also be giving a talk on the " Italian Theatre " in Paris, where the greatest Italian lyric artists came to France to create works, especially " Bel Cantiste", for French audiences in their original language (Italian) for much of the 19th century.

 

For these three events, we're looking into the possibility of presenting a few pieces in display cases, so that you can appreciate the need for us to collect and preserve the heritage of Lyric Art.

 

  • We will also be joined by an Austrian guest speaker from Vienna, who will give us our first Germanophile insight into opera. He will be tracing all the great Performers that have shone in Vienna and around the world over the decades.
We are looking into the possibility of holding this conference in Zurich (or Geneva), as Dr.Hollaender is bilingual in French and German.

 

  • Finally, we're working to bring you an exhibition on the famous Italian baritone Mattia Battistini (1856-1928 ), considered one of the last " DIVO ", and to repeat the one you saw last June on Christine Nilsson, either in Paris or Brussels.

 

 

This ambitious first-year program is subject to the availability of funding and logistical support.

 

 

For details, please visit our cultural programs page.

 

 

If you would like to help make one or more of the projects described above a reality, please write to us at

 

 

We look forward to receiving your correspondence.