The Collège de France inaugurates a partnership with the Musée d'Orsay, offering its teachers an unprecedented dive into its collections. For this fourth rendez-vous, Antoine Compagnon and Isolde Pludermacher slip behind the scenes of the Opéra in the company of Edgar Degas, Ludovic Halévy and Albert Boulanger-Cavé. On Wednesday January 15 2025 at 12 h 00 in the Musée d'Orsay auditorium.
Drawing on their respective fields of study - history, literature, sociology and philosophy - the Collège de France professors offer an erudite, offbeat reading of their favorite works, and a fresh look at the 19th century.
This discussion will focus on the pastel Ludovic Halévy et Albert Boulanger Cavé dans les coulisses de l'Opéra by Edgar Degas, dating from 1879 and from the collections of the Musée d'Orsay.
