Ajaccio, Napoleon's birthplace in Corsica, has announced the postponement or cancellation of a large part of the festivities planned in the city as part of the bicentenary of the Emperor's death, due to the health crisis due to Covid -19.
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In all, there are a dozen exhibitions, concerts and other events intended to celebrate this great island figure which are thus postponed, detailed the municipality in a press release Tuesday evening.
May 5, the anniversary of Napoleon's death on Saint Helena, which was to be the highlight of these commemorations, will thus be cut off from most of the planned events and in particular from the reconstruction in period costumes of the return of his ashes. in the island.
The great concert which was to take place at the cathedral under the direction of the conductor Jean-Christophe Spinosi, in order to
"paint the musical portrait of the Emperor"
, will for its part be offered in a reduced configuration of ten musicians and only broadcast by video capture on the city's social networks.
The big concert initially planned is postponed until the summer.
As for the “Napoleonic” culinary competition, scheduled for mid-April, and the exhibition
In marble and in brass, the memory of the Bonapartes in Corsica
, initially scheduled to begin on April 10 at the Maison Bonaparte, they were also postponed, to dates not yet specified.
"The next presidential address will allow new dates to be set for this postponement,"
Ajaccio town hall said in its press release.
