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Rando Tour Wagner & Associés

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10th Rando Tour Wagner & Associés  

Event dates : LE June 23th 2024 The exact dates of this event aswell as its hours are available in the table below

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Summer and winter, right next to the carrousel, come and relax in the heart of the Champ de Mars and taste the sweet specialities of the Délices du Carrousel with its many years of know-how.

10ème Rando Tour Wagner & Associés

Pour célébrer la 10e édition, Bernard HINAULT, vainqueur de 5 Tour de France, sera présent tout au long de l'événement et vous aurez ainsi l'opportunité de sillonner les routes alsaciennes à ses côtés. Lors de cette manifestation, vous aurez l’occasion d’arpenter les monts et vaux entre vignoble et colline en choisissant l’un des 3 parcours inédits au départ du siège de Wagner & Associés 175 avenue d’Alsace à Colmar à partir de 7 heures. Circuit 1 : 117 km et 2 198 m de dénivelé en passant par Riquewihr, le Col de Chamont, Lapoutroie, Orbey, Le Linge, Trois-Epis et Husseren-les-Châteaux. Circuit 2 : 90 km et 1 589 m de dénivelé en passant par Riquewihr, le Col de Chamont, Lapoutroie, Orbey, Trois-Epis et Wettolsheim. Circuit 3 : 38 km et 281 m de dénivelé en passant par Riquewihr, Ammerschwihr, Turckheim et Wettolsheim. Des ravitaillements seront installés tout au long de ces circuits pour votre confort. Les participants du petit parcours bénéficieront également d’un ravitaillement. A l’arrivée, vous pourrez profiter d’un barbecue gourmand pour partager un moment convivial et échanger avec notre parrain Bernard HINAULT. Les frais d'inscription sont de 40 € et donnent droit à 1 maillot cycliste adapté, au déjeuner barbecue et aux ravitaillements. 10 € sont reversés au Vélo Club de Sainte-Croix-en-Plaine et 5 € à une association. Pour être assuré d'avoir votre taille de maillot, l'inscription doit avoir lieu avant le 15 avril, au plus tard.

• Tarifs : 40€
• Type d'évènement, exposition : Evènement sportif
• Lieu/Départ de la manifestation : Wagner & Associés 175, avenue d'alsace
• Stationnement pour véhicules : A moins de 200 m d'un parking public gratuit

Congés/fermeture annuels : 02>26/01 ; 02>09/07 ; période de Noël

Fermeture hebdomadaire : Lundi, Dimanche, Dimanche soir

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Randotour Wagner et Associés

• dimanche 18 juin 2023 de 07h00 à 14h00
• Colmar 68 • Haut-Rhin
• 2 vues 0 inscrits --> Fête des Sports et Mobilités Urbaines

Le dimanche 18 juin 2023 : L’APPEL ! On pourrait en ce jour faire sienne la citation du Général de Gaulle : « La difficulté attire l’homme de caractère, car c’est en l’étreignant qu’il se réalise » Oui nous vous proposons dans cette 9ème édition les difficultés également inscrites samedi le 22 juillet 2023 pour les coureurs du Tour de France masculin dans son avant dernière étape. Honneur aux forçats de la route que nous serons tous en ce 18 juin 2023 en empruntant le Petit Ballon et le Col du Platzerwasel avant de parcourir sur plus de 30 kilomètres l’une des plus belles routes de France avec de superbes paysages ; la route des Crêtes avant de retourner en plaine en passant par le Col du Wettstein. Voici le menu du grand parcours de 130 kilomètres. Vous trouverez également beaucoup de plaisir en vous inscrivant à l’un des 2 autres parcours proposés que vous découvrirez ci-après. Et c’est en affrontant ces difficultés que vous vous réaliserez vous-mêmes en cette journée de défi sportif mais également dans le partage et la convivialité avec les autres participants et toute l’équipe organisatrice. L’inscription de 35 euros, ouvre droit : - à 1 maillot cycliste spécialement conçu pour l’occasion qui sera offert aux 250 premiers inscrits ! - aux ravitaillements sur le parcours, - à un déjeuner « grillades » à partager entre les participants et préparé par toute l’équipe du WAGNER & Associés. Comme les années précédentes, sur chaque droit d’inscription : - 10 euros sont reversés au Vélo Club de Ste Croix en Plaine, co-organisateur de la RANDO TOUR - 5 euros sont reversés à une association caritative. Inscrivez-vous sur le site Internet Le Sportif et parlez de notre évènement à vos amis, collègues, camarades de Club, connaissances… Nous précisons que la RANDO TOUR WAGNER & ASSOCIES est également ouverte aux adeptes de la petite reine qui pédalent avec assistance électrique. Avec l’organisation de notre manifestation nous souhaitons perpétuer l’esprit sportif, la convivialité, la joie de vivre et tout ce qui peut rassembler les êtres humains. Tout l’ADN de WAGNER & ASSOCIES ! Bien évidemment nous serons sensibles aux protections à mettre en place pour que la 9ème édition de la RANDO TOUR WAGNER & ASSOCIES soit une réussite totale et sécurisée. Au plaisir de vous retrouver toutes et tous. Bien sportivement

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Rando Tour Wagner & Associes / 2022 68 - Colmar - Haut-Rhin - France   has already taken place 19 Jun

Cycle touring, 8ème édition. nous vous proposons de vous emmener sur de nouveaux parcours afin de vous faire découvrir d’autres cols et d’autres paysages. cette édition de la rando tour wagner & associes se déroulera à partir de 07h00 au 175 avenue d'alsace, 68000 colmar. comme les années précédentes, nous déclinons la rando tour wagner & associes en 3 parcours : de 116  km, 75  km et 39  km, sur lesquels chacun pourra y trouver son plaisir mais aussi relever des défis personnels. tous les détails et modalités se trouvent sur notre site internet. inscription : 35 € qui ouvre droit à : - 1 maillot cycliste offert au 250 premiers inscrits. - ravitaillement (selon parcours). - 1 repas convivial. pour chaque inscription nous reversons : - 5 € à une association. - 10 € au vélo club de sainte-croix-en-plaine. bien évidemment nous serons sensibles aux protections à mettre en place pour que cette édition de la rando tour wagner & associes soit une réussite totale et sécurisée..

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Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (performed in German with Russian surtitles) The Mariinsky Opera Company on tour at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow conducted by Valery Gergiev, 4 th March 2002 (NM)

A Wagner opera has at last been staged in Moscow � for the first time since World War Two clouded Russo-German cultural relations so thoroughly. The production is not new in Russia, however � this is the Mariinsky production (sponsored by Daimler-Benz) first seen in St Petersburg in the summer of 2001. The capital has been slower at warming to Wagner, although the enterprising Virtuosi of Moscow under Spivakov�s baton delivered an apparently excellent "Liebestod" last summer to those Nouveau-Russes who could afford the $200+ asking price to hear Jessye Norman. Unlike other countries who have singled-out composers whose music was forced into the service of the Third Reich, Russia has until now had a more general aversion to German music overall � even Fidelio , with its potent rejection of tyranny, doesn�t currently feature in the repertoire of any of Moscow�s six houses.

As is so often the case with new Ring cycles, the projected Gergiev Ring has been kicked into touch with Die Walküre - presumably because a stage-sword that falls to pieces and a curtain (ehem) of "fire" present fewer technical challenges than Bass-Baritones who turn into toads, roaming dwarves, bears, giants or hydraulic dragons, or the End Of The World As We Know It. Over and above that, it�s the only one of the tetralogy to deal in non-oblique terms with emotions like love, sorrow, grief, separation, and empathy, and Opera Managements believe that audiences find such feelings a more persuasive reason to stay cooped-up for five hours in a seat that makes Economy Class Syndrome seem like Valhalla by comparison.

But if these were the reasons for breaking Mary Poppins� rule of starting at the very beginning, they were well and truly scuppered by the emotionally detached and uninvolved production of Gottfried Pilz. Herr Pilz commenced his career as a set-designer, a long-term collaborator of his controversial countryman Joachim Herz. The experience of working with the famed iconoclast has presumably sparked a contrary desire to introduce no elements of interpretation or concept into his productions at all. Herr Pilz is not only the "producer" of Walküre . Oh no, he�s the set-designer, costume-designer and lighting-designer too. Gergiev seems to fall into this trap repeatedly and learn nothing from it - he invites famous international collaborators and then encourages them to extend vastly beyond their capabilities. Infamously in 2001 he invited the famous Russian émigré artist Shemyakin (he is, at any rate, highly-regarded by a few in Russia, even if his fame hasn�t got beyond Brighton Beach elsewhere) to design a Nutcracker to be choreographed by enfant-terrible and star-pupil of Plisetskaya, Alexei Ratmansky (now with the Danish Royal Ballet). Ratmansky arrived on schedule for rehearsals, to find them already in progress under another choreographer. This choreographer was being briefed on what to teach the dancers by, errr, Shemyakin � who knows nothing about ballet at all. The result was a Nutcracker that was so critically panned from all sides that it�s been withdrawn. This Pilz Walküre is more of the same � characters stalk the stage like human props in some "great design", devoid of motive or emotion, like mechanised singing-machines. Minimalist and Feng-Shui as the designs may be, they add nothing to our understanding of this piece that we couldn�t have gained from merely hearing a concert performance. Yet a "neutral" staged performance is in some ways worse than a concert performance, because our expectations of drama and emotional involvement are frustrated � sometimes in very negative ways.

The costumes of this Walküre are horrible, and appear to have come from a jumblesale. Sieglinde is a waitress in a black skirt and a white blouse � they might have at least got one to fit her? The Valkyries have white party-frocks with navy-blue blazers (presumably sourced from the Russian Navy � since none of them fitted properly). Fricka has come as Jemima Puddle-Duck, and worst of all, the Lord and Master of the Upper World has a pastel blue shirt and tweedy paunch-hugging waistcoat that turns him into Laughing Uncle Albert in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. And now everyone has a costume, then please come into Hunding�s Parlour � where it gets worse.

To call Gottfried Pilz a set-designer is rather stretching things in this production � unless arranging four standard hotel-type conference-tables into a square pattern and surrounding them with rehearsal-room chairs constitutes a "design". The optimists amongst you may be hoping that this simply makes an easily strikable first scene to enable quick-changes into Valhalla, and some spectacular special effects for the Ride Of The Valkyries. So did I, but unlike you, I then had to sit and watch the same four tables for five hours � that�s more than one hour per table � and they didn�t move, although as a concession for the Ride Of The Valkyries they were covered with a white sheet. The rest of the set remains bare black throughout, although it must be said that there are some spiffy lighting effects, and more dry ice than The Hound Of The Baskervilles . Indeed there was so much dry ice in the immolation that the brass and woodwind sections disappeared entirely from view.

Yet Pilz�s worst fault of all is directing credible dramatic action. I�ve never ever seen a Walküre before where Wotan didn�t look at Brunnhilde at all during his Farewell to her, and instead of hugging her during "Leb� wohl..." was striding somewhere the other side of the stage whilst poor Larissa Gogolevskaya as Brunnhilde stood like "Exhibit A" on the set of tables. She finally got a hug out of Vladimir Vaneev�s Wotan by falling forwards off the table into his arms, although even then it seemed only 50-50 whether this unbothered Wotan would actually catch her. Frankly it would be churlish to blame the performers � either they were not given proper direction, or perhaps they were even instructed to behave in this absurd fashion. Gogolevskaya is not a natural actress, and her gait hardly suggests a winged avenger. However, the full Wagnerian tessitura is there, and if she could be encouraged to use it a little more lyrically and not chop the vocal line up, this could develop into a reliable Brunnhilde for the full cycle. In no need of any such assistance was Mlada Khudolei as Sieglinde � who combined superlative vocal technique with the only acting of the evening that went beyond the level of cornflake commercials. "O heilge Wonne" suddenly showed how fantastic it can be when a great voice, great acting and superb musical performance meet as equals. Sadly such moments were too rare in this production.

Gennadi Bezzubenkov produced the best of the male vocal performances as Hunding � an obvious for Fafner once the cycle gets going. His retinue of eight black-hooded joggers - who run in perpetual circles around Sieglinde - made him hard to take seriously. Equally undermined by his producer is Vaneev as Wotan � a stupid costume that doesn�t even fit him created a credibility gap which he failed to bridge, especially as he�d obviously had little or no direction. The voice is lyrical and warm, but he comes across as too avuncular, and a little under-powered for the role � it�s hard to imagine him sustaining a Rheingold too, although he would shine as Hans Sachs. Viktor Lutsiuk faced the unpleasant task of singing a role which was, according to the program, being sung by Placido Domingo. It even said so in upper-case letters of thanks to sponsors Daimler-Benz. However, these were reprinted programs from last summer�s performances in St Petersburg, and a cast-list in Russian-only corrected the error. Lutsiuk is not a natural for the high-lying role of Siegmund � he seems better fitted to Siegfried, and would probably make a good job of the part. However, he covered the role intelligently and made a noble, if brooding hero. Svetlana Volkova made the best of the unrewarding role of Fricka, despite staging directions designed to cure chronic insomnia (sitting facing Wotan without either one moving for ten full minutes).

This poor direction descended into lamentable farce for the arrival of the Valkyries themselves. With a breathtaking pace set by Gergiev for the Ride, expectation ran high. Enter nine fat ladies in white tutu�s stage right, scampering in highly self-conscious circles around four conference tables, now covered with a sheet. The scene is mysteriously set in the Arctic. All peaks and shock-chords in the orchestra are, of course, ignored, although obviously something is clearly intended to happen. The only special effect is that three Valkyries climb onto the tables to form two lines with the five below, at which point it stepped up from the Accounts Dept Christmas Panto to an amateur performance of The Gondoliers. Worse still, once Brunnhilde had been cursed, they performed a silent fly-past in memoriam, by running in two opposite-movement chubby lines, waving their hands as children do to simulate flying - when they are about six or seven, that is. Low-level tittering and murmurs of "gospodi!" and "yolki-palki!" ("gawd!" and "jeepers!") filled the auditorium.

It�s almost unbelievable that such first-rate codswallop on-stage was accompanied in the pit by some of the most stunning Wagnerian conducting to be heard in the world � rather as though the wrong band had turned-up for the gig. It was probably doubly galling for the Bolshoi Theatre, since this performance was a "qualifier" for the Golden Mask Awards � in which the Bolshoi don�t have a single nominated opera production, yet they were obliged to let-out their theatre to other nominees like the Mariinsky. Gergiev takes a very non-traditionalist view of Wagner, and rolls it out with a light touch that highlights indebtedness to Weber and Beethoven � no stodgy academic hunt-the-leitmotif here. Amazingly, the hopeless Bolshoi pit (which is no such thing in reality, merely a railed-off part of the stalls) did not create the balance problems which might have been expected, and if we�d been wearing hats, they would have come off to the brass section, for subtle flawless delivery and gorgeous warm supporting chording. It was, in fact, an object lesson in what has gone wrong at the Bolshoi itself � to hear an orchestra which has been trained by and works regularly with a permanent Musical Director who is in control of his own operations. As this Ring develops and the singers bed into their roles, there is every chance of this becoming a "greatest ever" reading of the tetralogy that you might want to have on disk. And at least on disk you would be spared actually having to look at the stage.

Neil McGowan

2018 Primetime Emmy & James Beard Award Winner

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Best time to travel: June for the “White Nights” Best gateway city: Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia Moscow and St. Petersburg Slide Show

Experience the art treasures of Moscow and St. Petersburg with guide, Amy Osaki. Begin in Moscow, continental Europe’s largest city, the seat of the government of Russia, and now home to over twenty billionaires! View iconic sites such as the Kremlin (which began as a fortress in the eleventh century), Red Square, and the sixteenth century St. Basil’s Cathedral. Then explore the art masterpieces at the Tretyakov Gallery, the National Museum of Russian Fine Art encompassing works from the eleventh to the twentieth century. Visit the Armory at the Kremlin filled with Imperial treasures including Faberge eggs once exchanged by the tsar and tsarina at Easter. Conclude your Moscow experience at the quiet seventeenth century Novodevichy Convent, one of many World Heritage sites included in the trip.

After a short flight, continue the trip with five days in St. Petersburg where you’ll be immersed in the opulence of Imperial Russia. Established by Tsar Peter I in 1703, St. Petersburg (known as Petrograd and Leningrad for most of the twentieth century) was the capital of the Russian empire for over two hundred years until the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Hermitage—said to be the largest art museum in the world with a collection of over three million objects housed in four main buildings—rivals the Louvre in Paris for both the quantity and quality of its treasures. Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, and open to the pubic for over two hundred years the museum is so vast that we’ll spread our visit out over several days and organize it by different themes. Also on the schedule is a visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress—the original citadel above the river founded in 1703—as well as some of the Imperial palaces in and around St. Petersburg such as Peterhof, a World Heritage Site. Peter I hired French architects to work on his many palaces, including Jean Baptiste Le Blond who worked with Andre Le Notre at Versailles. Consider enhancing your Russian experience by purchasing tickets to a performance—perhaps a ballet at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre (also known as the Kirov).

Day 1 Overnight in Moscow Arrive in Moscow and transfer to your centrally-located hotel, your base for the next two nights. Enjoy an afternoon and early evening walk through Red Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) past St. Basil’s Cathedral, and GUM department store all of which are back-dropped by the walls of the Kremlin fortress. Remember that we are here during the fabled “White Nights” when the summer days linger with light-filled evenings.

Day 2 Overnight in Moscow Within the walls of the Kremlin fortress, visit the Armoury Museum, one of Moscow’s oldest museums established at the start of the nineteenth century. The Kremlin Armoury was the royal arsenal; it produced and stored the weapons, jewelry and other regalia of the tsars. The museum’s collection encompasses four thousand items of applied art from Russia and elsewhere dating from the early fourth century to the twentieth century. Later in the day, visit the collection of masterpieces of the renowned Tretyakov Gallery. The Tretyakov collections were begun by the philanthropist Tretyakov brothers in the early nineteenth century. The gallery is recognized by many as a key repository of Russian art spanning the nation’s artistic tradition from early Orthodox icons to art nouveau, impressionist, and avant-garde works.

Day 3 Overnight in St Petersburg Enjoy a morning visit to the sixteenth century Novodevichy Convent named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2004. The convent’s name is sometimes translated as “New Maidens’ Monastery” to differentiate is from the convent within the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. Surrounded by white crenellated walls, this complex of churches has remained essentially intact since the seventeenth century. Here you’ll find the five-domed Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk with its spectacular iconostasis and the tall, red and white Gate Church of the Transfiguration which is often cited as a fine example of “Moscow Baroque” architecture. The neighboring Novodevichy Cemetery is the final resting place of the likes of Anton Chekhov, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Boris Yeltsin. This afternoon fly to St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city situated on the banks of the Neva River where it empties into the Gulf of Finland.

Day 4 Overnight in St Petersburg Start of your exploration of St. Petersburg with a visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress, the original citadel of St. Petersburg. The fortress was built to the designs of the Swiss Italian architect Domenico Trezzini in the early eighteenth century. Trezzini’s Peter and Paul Cathedral dominates the fortress grounds and its iconic golden spire punctuates into the Baltic sky. Later visit the Yusupov Palace on the Moika, acclaimed as an “encyclopedia of St. Petersburg aristocratic interior design.” The palace was the home of the Yusupov family from 1830 and 1917 and was the place where Grigori Rasputin, a spiritual mentor to Tsar Nicholas II and the Royal Family in the early 20th century, was assassinated. A visit to the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood built between 1883 and 1907 rounds out the day. The church was built in “Russian Revivalist” architectural style by Tsar Alexander III in commemoration of his father, Alexander II. The church occupies a conspicuous location on St. Petersburg’s Griboedov Canal and contains 7,500 square meters of mosaics; the interior walls and ceilings are completely covered by mosaics.

Day 5 Overnight in St Petersburg Seeing St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum in a day would be like trying to see the Smithsonian in a day! Rather than a forced march through the galleries at a rapid pace, we will slow down and savor the masterpieces. Remember, there are nearly seven miles worth of exhibitions! Today we focus on “Imperial Russia,” touring the rooms decorated for members of the Russian Imperial Family and viewing the art they commissioned and collected. This is the art that influenced the style of the grand palaces of the era. View the Grand Suite of rooms, Peter I’s collection of gold, and the jewelers art owned by the Russian Imperial Family (including Fabergé eggs, gold and diamonds). Here, too, are the rooms of Catherine II and her son Paul I with their fifteenth to eighteenth century French paintings and sculpture (Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, Chardin, and Houdon).

Day 6 Overnight in St Petersburg Return for a second dose of the Hermitage! Today is dedicated to the famous European masterpieces exhibited at the Hermitage. Feast your eyes on memorable works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, Velazquez, and El Greco. At the Hermitage, you can revel in Rembrandt; there are twenty of his works in the museum’s collection. After lunch, enjoy the eighteenth to twentieth century masterpieces of Monet, van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky. Digest the art and reflect on this unique collection of human creations. Consider an evening performance, possibly at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Day 7 Overnight in St Petersburg Journey by hydrofoil across the Gulf of Finland to experience Peter I’s palace at Peterhof, a series of palaces and gardens that evoke comparisons with Versailles which Peter visited in 1715. Begun in 1714 with the construction of the Monplaisir palace and expanded by later Imperial generations who added Rococo and Neo-classical elements, Peterhof is now a World Heritage Site. The creative mastery of architects, engineers, artists and craftsmen from throughout Europe is on display here and all is choreographed to celebrate water in homage to Peter, the maritime emperor.

Day 8 Overnight in St Petersburg Go behind the scenes with an excursion to the Hermitage Museum’s Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Center on the right back of the Neva River north of Kamenny Island. This vast treasure house is only accessible by private tour. Later, travel to Vasilvesky Island across the river from the Hermitage to visit Menishkov Palace completed in 1721 and now the oldest stone building in St. Petersburg. Enjoy a farewell dinner this evening.

About your guide : Amy Osaki holds a master’s degree from the Winterthur Museum. She studied art at the Louvre Museum in Paris and worked as a museum curator for over a decade including six years at the Portland Art Museum. She is an award-winning art educator who has led art trips around the world for the last fifteen years with Walking Softly Adventures. Many of these trips were offered for graduate credit from Portland State University where she is an Adjunct Professor.

Resources for Further Learning

• Preview part of the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery at its website.
• Learn more about the Moscow Kremlin .
• Prepare yourself to experience the Hermitage . You can even shop on-line at the museum’s on-line museum store!

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