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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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LyonLes Contes d'HoffmannNew production

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Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Emmanuel Villaume; Damiano Michieletto; Opéra de Lyon; Charlotte Corderoy; Paolo Fantin; Carla Teti; Alessandro Carletti

LyonAlexandre Tharaud

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Mozart, Rameau, Poulenc, Trénet, Satie, Brel
Alexandre Tharaud, Piano

LyonSabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy

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Liszt, Boulanger, Strauss R., Chaminade, Tailleferre, Poulenc, Milhaud, Piaf, Traditional, Schubert, Grieg
Sabine Devieilhe; Mathieu Pordoy

LyonLouiseNew production

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Charpentier: Louise
Giulio Cilona; Christof Loy; Opéra de Lyon; Étienne Pluss; Robby Duiveman; Valerio Tiberi; Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

LyonManon LescautNew production

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Sesto Quatrini; Emma Dante; Opéra de Lyon; Carmine Maringola; Vanessa Sannino; Cristian Zucaro; Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

LyonBilly BuddNew production

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Britten: Billy Budd
Finnegan Downie Dear; Richard Brunel; Opéra de Lyon; Stephan Zimmerli; Bruno de Lavenère; Laurent Castaingt; Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

LyonSophia Liu

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Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Chopin
Sophia Liu, Piano

LyonEtienne Dupuis

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Verdi, Massenet, Puccini
Étienne Dupuis; Unknown
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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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La Force du destin : Rustioni quitte l'Opéra de Lyon en beauté

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Une vision scénique peu convaincante, mais une interprétation musicale galvanisée par la direction de Daniele Rustioni qui dirige ici sa dernière production lyrique en tant que directeur musical de l'Opéra de Lyon.
***11
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