Concert in Teatro dei Differenti on Sunday 15th May from 5pm to 6pm.
There’ll be 100 people in Napoleonic costume in the stalls and the first row of boxes and the other boxes above can be for the people of Barga who’d like to come.
The Programme will be music from the time of Napoleon and Elisa Baciocchi Bonaparte with the following artists:
Soprano: Sarina Rausa (from Florence Opera/Maggio Musicale)
Baritone: Olivier de Molina from Zurich
Harpist: Sara Otello
Violin: Kevin Mucaj, will play Paganini
1814 SPRING DAY WEAR
LADIES wore ankle-length dresses in fine muslin & silk, with short lightly-puffed sleeves and hem decorations. Lace fichu and cotton batiste chemises covered the décolleté. Accessories were long kid gloves of various colours, flat pointed leather shoes or short boots, white stockings and silk or straw hats, decorated with silk ribbons and silk flowers. Small silk- covered parasols, often foldable, with wooden or bone handles, protected them from the sun. On cooler days they wore redingotes or spencer jackets with short leather gloves. Ladies also carried a reticule, cashmere shawl, chatelaine, miser’s purse and fan and if the day was cool a long-sleeved pelisse of white percale or silk . Jewellery was often pearls, coral & cameos. Hair was pinned up under the bonnet with Front ringlets showing.
The Man’s Day Wardrobe from 1805 – 1814 consisted of a cut-away jacket in wool or cashmere, often blue. The fashion of the day was black collars and polished metal buttons. They wore riding boots, high-waisted, drop-front light wollen or nankeen breeches,
a waist-length silk waistcoat, a white cotton batiste shirt with no lace, white stockings, a long white cotton cravate, a black hat and a pair of gloves. Other accessories were
a walking stick, fob watch, miser’s purse etc.