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On the occasion of the Ecotopiales 2025 festival, the BCU Lausanne wanted to hear from some of the festival’s guests. Here are their answers, and with them a few ideas for each and every one of us in our relationship with Living Things. What is it that nourishes your connection to the living world and […]

On the occasion of the Ecotopiales 2025 festival, the BCU Lausanne wanted to hear from some of the festival’s guests. Here’s what they had to say, and what they have to say about our relationship with life. What is it that nourishes your connection to the living world and allows you to imagine a better […]

In previous articles in the Des notes pleines d’images series, we discussed descriptive music in vocal works, opera and film. But what happens when there’s no text, no images, no singer and no actor? Music becomes pure narrative, freeing itself from traditional forms to invent a new way of telling stories: the symphonic poem, one […]

This year, the music collections of the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire – Lausanne join forces with the Lausanne Bach Festival to celebrate Baroque Splendor! Between the pages of books and the staves of scores, we find all the brilliance of this teeming era: virtuosity, spectacularity, inventiveness. Our shelves echo the festival concerts: biographies, recordings, DVDs […]

“Living things form complex, ambivalent relationships, sometimes involving opposition, sometimes antagonism, sometimes mutualism. This allows us to imagine differently the rich range of relationships we can have with the rest of living things.” (Baptiste Morizot, interview in Reporterrepublished May 11, 2023) In a world that is becoming less and less habitable, and whose modes of […]

On the 40th anniversary of his death, it’s high time we paid tribute to Orson Welles: actor with a passion for Shakespeare, radio broadcaster made famous by “War of the Worlds” (1938), he revolutionized cinema forever at the age of 26 with “Citizen Kane” (1941). He made films for cinema and television, experimenting with all […]