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Echoes of 1815: A Concert of Music from Napoleon’s 100 Days
23 February 2015, 1-2pm
Ensemble Room, Warwick Arts Centre
The Waterloo Singers
Katherine Hambridge, soprano
Mark Austin, piano
Ever wondered what they were singing at the Battle of Waterloo? Come along to hear this and much more at a concert of musical responses to Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815. Performed by a motley collection of academics and musicians, the repertoire ranges from popular song, satirical vaudeville, propaganda opera and sentimental art song from around the UK, France and German lands.
The concert marks the launch of the online exhibition ‘The Last Stand: Napoleon’s 100 Days in 100 Objects’, a collaboration between Mark Philp from the History department, the AHRC-funded project ‘French Theatre of the Napoleonic Era’ led by Katherine Astbury, and the European History Research Centre.