Anne-Charlotte Rémond – Total Baroque Magazine

Articles by Anne-Charlotte Rémond

Anne-Charlotte Rémond studied music at the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne. She began her career as a teacher (piano and music culture) before becoming a producer at France Musique. There, she has created a wide range of programmes, from magazine shows and concert broadcasts to musical fiction and music history features. Alongside her work in radio, she has also taught analysis at the Conservatoire, while developing a strong interest in music outreach and in all forms of sharing music with wider audiences.

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When Italian Opera Shone Across Baroque Europe

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The Journeys of Music (3/3)

When Italian Opera Shone Across Baroque Europe

Do you know about the “trunk arias” that opera singers carried with them in their luggage in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? In this third instalment, we set off across Europe, in search of Italian opera. After the journey of church chant in the early Christian centuries and the travels of Franco-Flemish music during the Renaissance, this episode invites us to discover a genre newly born in Florence which, in less than a century, conquered all of Europe.

by Anne-Charlotte Rémond 13 April 2026

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In Renaissance Europe, the Age of the Franco-Flemish Musicians

From a small region, today spanning northern France and Belgium, from the Scheldt Valley to the great European courts, Renaissance composers shaped a musical language in constant motion. Movements, influences, and exchanges formed a dense network at the heart of which a shared aesthetic emerged—one we now refer to as Franco-Flemish.

Around the year 380, Egeria’s extraordinary journey to Jerusalem

From church music (chant) in the time of the first Christians to the composers of Italian opera in the 18th century, by way of the Franco-Flemish musicians of the Renaissance, musicologist Anne-Charlotte Rémond takes us through the journeys of music from the 4th to the 18th century, in a fascinating series of three articles. How, in the past, did music actually travel? Today, follow Egeria’s adventure from Europe to Jerusalem, around the year 380.