The Palazz­etto Bru Zane – Centre de musique romantique française explores the music of French Roman­ti­cism. Since its found­ing in 2009, it has sig­ni­fic­antly expan­ded the rep­er­toire of this event­ful 19^th-cen­tury era. Opheli­as Cul­ture PR has been look­ing after the Palazz­etto Bru Zane Found­a­tion in Ger­man-speak­ing coun­tries since 2012. The com­bin­a­tion of research, edit­or­i­al work, and per­form­ance prac­tice has thus become a prime example of applied musi­co­logy. The privately fun­ded insti­tu­tion owes its name to its loc­a­tion – a 17^th-cen­tury Vene­tian palace – and to pat­ron Nicole Bru.

The three annu­al fest­ivals of the „Palazz­etto“ in Venice and Par­is are the flag­ships, where them­at­ic focuses such as com­poser anniversar­ies, as well as socio-music­al and music­al-his­tor­ic­al aspects are high­lighted. In past years, the focus has been on the mul­ti­fa­ceted genre of oper­etta with the work of Jacques Offen­bach and his con­tem­por­ar­ies, music against the back­drop of the First World War, Napo­leon and music, but also the redis­cov­ery of numer­ous unknown female com­posers. Ophelia’s Cul­ture PR organ­ises press trips and launches reviews of record­ings from its in-house label. These reg­u­larly receive inter­na­tion­al awards.

The Palazz­etto Bru Zane is an essen­tial cus­todi­an and ambas­sad­or of the French Romantic music­al rep­er­toire – a place that pre­serves his­tory while sim­ul­tan­eously bring­ing it to life, by open­ing new per­spect­ives on Roman­ti­cism and provid­ing a stage for vibrant inter­pret­a­tions of this music.