Life imitating art in Lyon
Live art with a capital "L" – like Lyon! Dance, theatre and circus... for young and old alike!
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Archipel Post Modern - dance
The Maison de la Danse is bringing us a rich and varied season, mixing together creation, urban dance, circus arts and more with works from the...
By Isabelle
In English at the theatre
As the stronghold of the French café-théâtre scene, Lyon is now crossing the Channel to give you an English version of the city's famous evening...
By Eléonore
A weekend in Lyon with the kids
With its highly varied cultural offer, appropriately designed facilities, workshops, tours aimed at children and numerous green open spaces, Lyon is...
End-of-year 2018 live entertainment
December is here and with it comes a wonderful range of live entertainment—here’s my pick! This year, the Christmas concerts take pride of place, for...
By Isabelle
Bells and Spells
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
There is plenty of humour and a spark of absurdity in Victoria Thierrée Chaplin’s world. For the new show, Aurélia Thierrée gets inside the skin of a...
From the house of the dead - Leoš Janáček
The Lyon Opera House
Adapted from Dostoyevsky’s The House of the Dead (1862), Leoš Janáček’s last opera also stands as the highest point in his operatic art.
Trisha Brown / Newark, Foray Forêt, Set and Reset / Reset
The Maison de la Danse
January will see an evening entirely devoted to the great lady of American post-modern dance, Trisha Brown.
Book of My Mother
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
For thirty years, Patrick Timsit has wanted to make his own version of Book of My Mother, Albert Cohen’s autobiographical tale. He is now making this...
Romeo and Juliet - Boris Blacher
Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse
Not changing a word of Shakespeare’s text seems to have been Boris Blacher’s guiding light for his Romeo and Juliet, while keeping a few essential...
The Collection
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
One woman, three men: numerous possibilities. Ludovic Lagarde explores the enigmatic world of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature winner.
Festival Têtes de Bois
Espace Tonkin
The Espace Tonkin starts the year with the puppets "Les Têtes de bois", intended for the young public and their families with a program of workshops...
The Enchantress - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Lyon Opera House
Festival - Lifes and Destinies Portrait of an untamed artist.
A Dido et Æneas- Henry Purcell / Kalle Kalima
The Lyon Opera House
Festival Lifes and Destinies. As an ancient queen, disappointed in love, Dido is the first great operatic heroine.
J’ai pris mon père sur mes épaules
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
For his newest creation, Arnaud Meunier brings Rachida Brakni and Philippe Torreton together on stage. A comic and desperate epic loosely based on...
The Return of Ulysses / Claudio Monteverdi
The Maison de la Danse
Festival Lifes and Destinies An opera in its native state As the only opera staged by the Handspring Puppet Company, Il ritorno d’Ulisse is here...
Opening Night
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
This is one of the big events of the season: an open road between theatre and cinema, starring an exceptional actor.