For 50 years, the Nuits du Château de la Moutte have been bringing Saint-Tropez to life in the moonlight, between the courtyard, the palm grove and the Canebiers beach, with concerts of classical, baroque, jazz and world music. A magical rendezvous under the stars.
Conference "Did you say romantic?
Saint-Tropez's fame was established in the 20th century by painters and the cinema. But Nicolas Dufetel invites you to discover its hidden romantic aspects, linked to music. Contemplation of nature, folklore, history, love... Around Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Wagner, you'll learn all about the reasons that led Emile Ollivier and Blandine Liszt to settle at the Chateau de La Moutte in the heart of the Romantic century.
Nicolas Dufetel (Musicologist)
Nicolas Dufetel is a musicologist, CNRS research fellow and deputy director of IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie) in Paris. Author of a thesis on Franz Liszt, he has been a guest researcher at BnF and a laureate of the Houghton Library (Harvard University) and the Humboldt Foundation in Weimar. His research focuses on 19th-century Europe, in particular Liszt, questions of aesthetics, epistemology, the dialogue between the arts and the history of music in the Ottoman Empire.
He regularly collaborates with a number of festivals and organizations (Vézelay, Lisztomanias, Philharmonie de Paris, Luxembourg, etc.) and has published several books on Liszt, Wagner and religious music, most recently "Le Château de la Moutte: Un joyau romantique à Saint-Tropez" (Flammarion).
He is also deputy mayor of Angers, responsible for culture and heritage.
Saint-Tropez's fame was established in the 20th century by painters and the cinema. But Nicolas Dufetel invites you to discover its hidden romantic aspects, linked to music. Contemplation of nature, folklore, history, love... Around Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt and Wagner, you'll learn all about the reasons that led Emile Ollivier and Blandine Liszt to settle at the Chateau de La Moutte in the heart of the Romantic century.
Nicolas Dufetel (Musicologist)
Nicolas Dufetel is a musicologist, CNRS research fellow and deputy director of IReMus (Institut de recherche en musicologie) in Paris. Author of a thesis on Franz Liszt, he has been a guest researcher at BnF and a laureate of the Houghton Library (Harvard University) and the Humboldt Foundation in Weimar. His research focuses on 19th-century Europe, in particular Liszt, questions of aesthetics, epistemology, the dialogue between the arts and the history of music in the Ottoman Empire.
He regularly collaborates with a number of festivals and organizations (Vézelay, Lisztomanias, Philharmonie de Paris, Luxembourg, etc.) and has published several books on Liszt, Wagner and religious music, most recently "Le Château de la Moutte: Un joyau romantique à Saint-Tropez" (Flammarion).
He is also deputy mayor of Angers, responsible for culture and heritage.
Opening times
Opening times
On 7 August 2025
- 18:30
