Sunday, July 24, 2011

Homage to Adolphe Adam on his birthday

A clip from a rehearsal of Giselle:


Sunday, July 17, 2011

July 17, 1791


On this date 210 years ago, during the French Revolution, the Champ de Mars was the site of a massacre during which members of the National Guard opened fire on a crowd of anti-royalist protesters.