As dancer Cédric Andrieux prepares to take over the director of the Lyon Opera Ballet, the institution announced that it has been forced to cancel all performances of On purge Bébé! the last Philippe Boesmans opera, initially scheduled for 5 to 17 June 2023. Following a Board of Directors meeting on 12 April, decisions were […]
From 17 March to 4 April 2023, the Opéra de Lyon is holding its festival on the theme of “Crossing the gates” with three operas on the bill. With Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro, Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle and Bluthaus (The House of Crime) by Haas and Monteverdi. It will be a question of thresholds to be […]
The Opera of Lyon announces that for personal reasons, Olivier Assayas, the well-known filmmaker, will not stage Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, scheduled from March 17 to April 4, 2023. Eugen Jebeleanu signs this new production in his place with a newcomer in the role of Marcellina, the great French mezzo-soprano Sophie Pondjiclis, on stage […]
From 9 to 11 November 2018, the Opéra de Lyon welcomes dance performances and pays tribute to great choreographer Merce Cunningham, as part of the 2019 celebration to Honor the 100th Anniversary of his birth. The Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon performs Summerspace and Exchange, two Cunningham’s masterpieces with the quintessence of style of this […]
The Opera de Lyon is a major opera company in France and his creation are always interesting to follow. On 19 May will be orld premiered Alexander Raskatov’s GerMANIA directed by John Fulljames and conducted by Alejo Pérez. The libretto is based on two Heiner Müller’s novel and will be performed in Russian and in […]
Major event of the French season, at the Opéra de Lyon in March, during a great Verdi Festival three operas are performed : Attila, Macbeth and Don Carlos, extended five acts version in French.
Happy days at the Opéra de Lyon from 15 December with Rossini’s La Cenerentola especially starring Cyrille Dubois as Don Ramiro and Michèle Losier as Cenerentola…
Baritone Stéphane Degout is now a master of the mélodies and Lieder who will perform Fauré, Brahms and Schumann’s Kerner Lieder at the Opéra de Lyon on 3 December.
L’Arlésienne & Carmen, Roland Petit’s masterpiece are performed by the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon at Lyon’s Opéra from 18 to 24 November.
Congrats to the Opéra national de Lyon whos has been named Opernhaus der Jahres (Opera of the Year) by the German magazine Opernwelt.
