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Venue: Opéra Nouvel, Lyon

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Address1 Place de la Comédie
69001 Lyon
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
France
ContainsAmphi de l'Opéra Nouvel
Google maps45° 46' 4.053" N 4° 50' 11.802" E
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LyonIcônes

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Glass, Various
Lucinda Childs; Alessandro Sciarroni; Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon; Christina Giannini; Beverly Emmons; Ettore Lombardi; Sébastien Lefèvre

LyonWagner / Bruckner

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Wagner, Bruckner
Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon; Daniele Rustioni

LyonL'Amour des trois orangesNew production

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Prokofiev: L’amour des trois oranges (The Love for Three Oranges)
Dmitry Matvienko; Laurent Pelly; Opéra de Lyon; Caroline Ginet; Michel Le Borgne; Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

LyonClémentine Margaine / Sarah Margaine

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Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Offenbach, Massenet, Duparc, Ravel, Gershwin, Weill
Clémentine Margaine; Sarah Margaine

LyonArielle Beck

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Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, Chopin
Arielle Beck, Piano

LyonLe Sacre du printemps / House

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Lichtik, Stravinsky
Sharon Eyal; Mats Ek; Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon; Christoph Altstaedt; Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon; Maayan Goldman; Alon Cohen

LyonLa Fille de Madame Angot

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Lecocq: La Fille de Madame Angot
Karine Locatelli; Richard Brunel; Opéra de Lyon; Benedict Kearns; Bruno de Lavenère; Laurent Castaingt

LyonPeer Gynt

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Grieg: Peer Gynt
Bassem Akiki; Angélique Clairand; Opéra de Lyon; Anouk Dell'Aiera; Bruno de Lavenère; Laurent Castaingt; Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon
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Billy Budd, or the Triumph of Beauty at the Opéra de Lyon

Sean Michael Plumb (Billy Budd) © Jean-Louis Fernandez
The Opéra de Lyon presents Britten’s masterpiece for the first time: a triumph, both visually and musically, which is received with great enthusiasm by the audience.
****1
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All that glitters: Barrie Kosky's Coq d'or opens in Lyon

Its premiere postponed from Festival d'Aix last summer, Barrie Kosky's staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's political satire finally takes place in Lyon. 
*****
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Seeing double: Bluebeard’s Castle at Opéra de Lyon

A controversial new production of Bluebeard's Castle by Andriy Zholdak in which Bartók's opera is played out twice... 
**111
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Marton turns Don Giovanni into a wrist-slashing wimp

A disappointing new production by David Marton at Opéra de Lyon. 
**111
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Darkness and grandeur in Christophe Honoré's Don Carlos

A (nearly) complete performance of the original French version of Don Carlos forms the centrepiece of Daniele Rustioni's Verdi Festival in Lyon. 
****1
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Macbeth, Thane of Wall Street

In Lyon, Daniele Rustioni drives through a pulsating reading of Macbeth, Ivo van Hove's imaginative setting not always fully backed by the vocal performances.
***11
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Joan laid bare and buried: Romeo Castellucci has done with the era of appropriations of the mythical figure

  With a new and revolutionary staging by Romeo Castellucci, Lyon Opera presents a radical analysis of a symbolic figure often subject to ideological takeover; Kazushi Ono’s sympathetic direction makes Arthur Honegger and Paul Claudel’s work into something sublime while preserving its mysterious spirituality.
*****
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A well seasoned concoction

Le Roi Carrotte, simmered by Laurent Pelly in the cooking pots of the Opéra de Lyon
****1
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