In Brocéliande, the legendary forest, we enter through our ears as much as through our eyes. But also through the words of the Fairy Viviane. She knows all its twists and turns, all its spells. In six stories drawing as much from Arthurian legend as from Breton folklore, she will take us along its paths, leading us to the horses drinking near the pond, above a crystal palace. Visions that summon in turn a knight, an elf, ferocious beasts, a fairy, an Enchanter…

Tales and Wonders of Brocéliande

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The lion, the rooster, the elephant, the swan, the long-eared characters, and even the pianist, that "digitigrade concertivorous mammal..." Francis Blanche jokes, are all found pell-mell in The Carnival of the Animals , which Saint-Saëns refused to see performed during his lifetime, no doubt for fear of appearing unserious. Seeing the menagerie incomplete, Guillaume Connesson gave it a sequel and imagined grazing, in the musical zoo of Jurassic Trip , six historical miniatures ranging from the tyrannosaurus to the pterodactyl. Adults allowed.

National Sundays: The Carnival of the Animals / Lambert Wilson

A soldier on leave returns to the village to find his mother and his fiancée. He has a violin in his bag, a small 10-franc violin. On the way, he meets the Devil, who offers to trade the violin for a book. A book that, he promises, will make him very rich...

Jessica Bessac

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Mar 7, 2026

Tales and Wonders of Brocéliande · Orchestre National de France

Feb 15, 2026

National Sundays: The Carnival of the Animals / Lambert Wilson · Orchestre National de France

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Clarinet in The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns

Orchestre National de France

Clarinet in Jurassic Trip by Connesson

Orchestre National de France

Clarinet in The Soldier's Tale by Stravinsky

Orchestre National de France

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