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Broken Chair is an original idea and project of Paul Vermeulen, co-founder and director of Handicap International Switzerland. [2] In October 1996, he commissioned the 10-meter high (33 ft) chair, with a torn-off leg, to be installed on the Place des Nations, [2] motivated to try to get as many nations to sign Ottawa Treaty on landmines in December 1997.
For the 2008/9 theatre season, Latvian theatre director Alvis Hermanis adapted eight of Vasily Shukshin's short stories for stage in a collaboration with the Theatre of Nations, entitled Shukshin's Stories (or Shukshin's Tales). As of 2021 it is still touring the world, and has won several awards. [3]
Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau (The Two Days, or The Water Carrier) is an opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini with a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly.It takes the form of an opéra comique, meaning not that the subject matter is humorous, but that the piece is a mixture of spoken dialogue and musical numbers.
It was filmed at the NBC Studios and consists of Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony in a performance of Verdi's Overture to La forza del destino and Inno delle nazioni, which contains the national anthems of the United Kingdom, France, and Italy (the World War I allied nations), to which Toscanini added the Soviet "Internationale" and "The ...
Le Concert des Nations is an orchestra using period instruments, which performs the orchestral and symphonic repertoire from the Baroque to Romanticism: 1600 - 1900. The orchestra was created in 1989, the youngest of the groups conducted by the Catalan maestro and viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall .
"All the Madmen" is a song written by the English singer-songwriter David Bowie in 1970 for his album The Man Who Sold the World, released later that year in the US and in April 1971 in the UK. One of several tracks on the album about insanity, it has been described as depicting "a world so bereft of reason that the last sane men are th
Duchamp's Boîte-en-valise, Cleveland Museum of Art. La Boîte-en-valise (box in a suitcase) is a type of mixed media assemblage by Marcel Duchamp consisting of a group of reproductions of the artist's works inside a box that was, in some cases, accompanied by a leather valise or suitcase.
The Nations League Finals took place over five days and were played in single-leg knockout matches, consisting of two semi-finals on 14 and 15 June (the first of which featured the host team), and a third place play-off and final three days after the second semi-final on 18 June 2023. The semi-final pairings were determined by means of an open ...