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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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...
Cinderella - Maguy Marin
It is impossible to weary of this rereading of the Maguy Marin repertory piece.
Mefistofele / Arrigo Boito
Boito’s work has rarely been honoured in France. It is thus all the more passionate that the Opéra de Lyon, which likes to put on productions of...
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...
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Mefistofele / Arrigo Boito
The Lyon Opera House
Boito’s work has rarely been honoured in France. It is thus all the more passionate that the Opéra de Lyon, which likes to put on productions of...
Scapin the Schemer
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
Denis Podalydès embarks the company from the Comédie-Française in a playful adaptation Les Fourberies de Scapin.
Cinderella - Maguy Marin
The Lyon Opera House
It is impossible to weary of this rereading of the Maguy Marin repertory piece.
Nabucco / Giuseppe Verdi
Auditorium de Lyon - Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL)
In Nabucco, the general public awaits and remembers the famous chorus, Va pensiero, which stands as a second Italian national anthem, in...
Rabbit hole, Parallel dimensions
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
This was a great success for us last season. A creation rich in subtlety and feeling for which Claudia Stavisky has put together a truly brilliant...
Bestie di scena
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
For the first time at Les Célestins, celebrated Italian director Emma Dante strips our humanity bare.
L'Heure espagnole / Maurice Ravel
The Lyon Opera House
As the French composer’s first piece for the stage, L’Heure Espagnole is a farce that brings together a woman, her husband, and her three lovers.
Elvira, Elvire Jouvet 40
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
Great Italian actor Toni Servillo breathes new life into Louis Jouvet’s drama classes. A celebration of the theatre as an antidote to the brutality of...
Incertain Monsieur Tokbar
Les Célestins - Théâtre de Lyon
His world of cobbled-together poetry fascinates children and adults alike. Half-way between the theatre of objects and puppetry, Turak Theatre carries...
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.
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...