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Pauline Viardot in music
Saturday 04 October 2025
Location : 16 rue Ivan Tourgueniev
Destination
en passant par le 14
78380
Bougival
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 48.866147
Longitude : 2.147328
Event Organizer
Association Les Amis de Georges Bizet
Location
16 rue Ivan Tourgueniev
en passant par le 14
78380
Bougival
Presentation
Evoking the life of Pauline Viardot
One Saturday a month, mezzo-soprano Parvati Maeder Lapointe and pianist Joel Keller will spend 30 minutes at the Villa Viardot evoking the stages in the musical life of Pauline Viardot.
One Saturday a month, mezzo-soprano Parvati Maeder Lapointe and pianist Joel Keller will spend 30 minutes at the Villa Viardot evoking the stages in the musical life of Pauline Viardot.
▪️ her training as a pianist with Liszt and as a singer with her father Manuel Garcia and the famous singing method compiled by Manuel Garcia junior, a copy of which can be found in the Tourguéniev museum at the Datcha
▪️sa her career as a singer and her marriage to Louis Viardot, art critic, translator, director of the Théâtre des Italiens and later her agent, friend of George Sand, her friendship with Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz
▪️ the artists invited to her salon: Charles Gounod, Camille Saint Saens, Gabriel Fauré, Cécile Chaminade, Reynaldo Hahn...
▪️ as well as a number of arias by Bizet, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc
Combine a visit to the Tourguéniev museum-dacha (open from 2pm to 6pm) with musical entertainment at the Domaine des Frênes.
The Russian writer Ivan Tourguéniev discovered the Domaine des Frênes property in Bougival in 1874. It consists of a neo-Palladian villa and park in which he had a dacha built, now the Maison d'Illustre.
The singer, pianist and composer Pauline Viardot lived in the Villa Viardot until 1883, where she ran a music salon.
▪️sa her career as a singer and her marriage to Louis Viardot, art critic, translator, director of the Théâtre des Italiens and later her agent, friend of George Sand, her friendship with Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz
▪️ the artists invited to her salon: Charles Gounod, Camille Saint Saens, Gabriel Fauré, Cécile Chaminade, Reynaldo Hahn...
▪️ as well as a number of arias by Bizet, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc
Combine a visit to the Tourguéniev museum-dacha (open from 2pm to 6pm) with musical entertainment at the Domaine des Frênes.
The Russian writer Ivan Tourguéniev discovered the Domaine des Frênes property in Bougival in 1874. It consists of a neo-Palladian villa and park in which he had a dacha built, now the Maison d'Illustre.
The singer, pianist and composer Pauline Viardot lived in the Villa Viardot until 1883, where she ran a music salon.
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