Musical tale: the Swan Knight

Name: Musical tale: the Swan Knight
Start: 2022-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T19:30:00+02:00
Location: Château La Grand'Cour

Musical tale played by a singer-storyteller and her minstrel

Saturday 17 September 2022, 18:00Passed

Conditions

10 € / Member: 8 € / Child under 12 years: free

Registration

Amis@LaGrandCour.fr 02 48 80 24 45

Ethel Balogh

Where one meets an enchanted knight in a universe dedicated to the imagination…

At the time of the chivalrous epics, the legend of the Swan Knight is one of the famous acts songs and especially those of the first cycle of the Crusades. The birth of the swan knight reveals the supernatural origin of the ancestor of Godefroy de Bouillon. Also source of the famous «Lohengrin», character of medieval Germanic literature, linked to the Arthurian legend in Parzival and which will inspire an eponymous opera by Wagner composed for Louis II of Bavaria. Beyond the historical relationship, the legend opens all the doors of the imagination, evoking the archetypes of the marvelous: the mysterious nature, the metamorphosis, the supernatural, the trials, the fight, the magic, the happy outcome.

About the location

Château La Grand'Cour

Route de Nevers, 18350 Mornay-Berry

Cher
Centre-Val de Loire

Built at the end of the 13th century, shortly before the Hundred Years' War, it is a rare yet demonstrative example of a "fortress-shell" with its polygonal enclosure and keep-door. Its water moat, its rocking bridge and its darkening illustrate its protective role of a small seigneury against the brigands and mercenaries of armies of all sides, whether French or English or Burgundian. In the fifteenth century a floor was added and a staircase had to be created, sheltered in a round turret supported by the initial massive keep: this exceptional juxtaposition is one of the architectural originalities of the site. In the center of the medieval clod, a farmhouse was built in the eighteenth century on the ruins of the manor house which had burned down in the sixteenth century. Today, its green setting and the pleasure of its gardens flowered with ancient roses, make it a place of tranquility conducive to games between the hedges or to romantic reverie in its alcoves of charmilles. The Gran