The cult film by Richard Curtis, notably starring Hugh Grant, celebrates its twentieth anniversary on Sunday. Memories memories. You’re not serious when you’re twenty. Or rather, we’re too serious. Twenty…
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DJ Snake announces a concert at the Stade de France for 2025
See you in a year and a half. THE star musician and producer DJ Snake announced this Thursday that they are planning a concert at the legendary Stade de France…
On public service, tribute provided to Maria Callas for the centenary of her birth
Maria Callas, accompanied by the ORTF National Orchestra, conducted by Georges Prêtre, in 1965, at studio 102 of the Maison de la radio, for the television program “Les Grands Interprètes”,…
For his tour, Etienne Daho rethinks things in a big way
Etienne Daho, in April 2023. STUDIO LABEL “For several years, my producer, Thierry Suc, has been pestering me to play again in large venues”, confides Etienne Daho to us, thirty…
Maria Callas in Greece, years between traumas and triumphs
The portrait of Maria Callas on the facade of the house she occupied from 1940 to 1945 with her mother and sister, at 61 Patission Street, Athens, in 2023. CHRIS…
Eva Bester gives voice to Lola Lafon
Lola Lafon, in Paris, in October 2020. JOEL SAGET/AFP FRANCE INTER – ON DEMAND – PODCAST That evening, that is to say November 27, Eva Bester received Lola Lafon in…
A portrait of Isabelle de Bourbon, signed Velázquez, estimated at $35 million
The painting, created by the Spanish master in the 1620s, will be the centerpiece of a Sotheby’s sale dedicated to the great masters in New York in February. A portrait…
a soft-spoken monster actress
Nathalie Richard, end of September 2023. BERTRAND MANDICO One cold November morning, Nathalie Richard meets in a Parisian café which is showing a video of a wood fire, next to…
the English ghost Peter Gabriel and the Americans of REM
On the program this week, I/O, Peter Gabriel’s first original album in 21 years, and the release of Up from Michael Stipe’s band. Peter Gabriel, pion intact It took 21…
Five years after his death, Charles Aznavour more immortal than ever
INVESTIGATION – Listened to all over the world, attracting directors, young people and rappers, Charles Aznavour is already doing better than Dalida, Brens, Brel, Trenet and even Piaf. New York,…
What is Molière – the Urban Opera, the new musical at the Palais des Sports worth?
” data-script=”https://static.lefigaro.fr/widget-video/short-ttl/video/index.js” > WE WERE THERE – This well-sung and well-danced production skimps neither on technical means nor on the artists. In the role of the playwright, the incredible Quebecois…
Sam Smith and the Gazo-Tiakola duo headlining
The British singer and the two French rappers are part of a first list of 13 names revealed by the Solidays festival, which will open its ticket office on December…
At the Musée de l’Orangerie, in Paris, color in action according to Hermann Nitsch
“Splattered Painting” (May 2021), by Hermann Nitsch, acrylic on canvas. HERMANN NITSCH/ADAGP, PARIS, 2023 Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) is part of the art of the second half of the 20th centurye…
Impressive trailer for Furiosa, fifth installment of the Mad Max saga
Anya Taylor-Joy ready to fight. Warner Anya Taylor-Joy takes over from Charlize Theron in this “odyssey” which traces the warrior’s youth. Theatrical release in May 2024. Charlize Theron will not…
These artists who follow the voice of Callas
By Bruno GuermonprezFor Le Figaro Magazine Published 4 hours ago, Update 1 hour ago Maria Callas. Eric Garault for Figaro Magazine / Eric Garault DECRYPTION – Born a hundred years…