CONCERT
With over 40 years career together, the Hagen brothers and sister have become an institution in chamber music. United by a shared musical idea, as rich as it is rigorous, they propose for this concert two titanic late quartets by Beethoven.
TIMING 1h45 with an intermission
A solemn and luminous evening of French baroque music, orchestrated at every turn by Emmanuelle Haïm, with three superb motets, in which voices unite and alternate between the infinite sweetness of eternal rest and the most celestial of joys.
TIMING +/- 2h10, one intermission
With 45 prestigious roles under his belt and myriad triumphs at the MET and La Scala, the British baritone Simon Keenlyside takes up a challenge worthy of his talents in the sobriety of the recital: “Just a magnificent poem, a musical masterpiece, or both at the same time.”
TIMING 1h45 with an intermission
Consummate pianist, Éric Le Sage brings with him two exceptional performers, the violinist Daishin Kashimoto and cellist Claudio Bohórquez, for an intimate moment of chamber music, devoted to Beethoven and Brahms.
TIMING 1h40 with an intermission
Celebrated for her interpretations of the great operatic roles, Stéphanie d’Oustrac brings to the recital all her dramatic power, impeccable diction and radiant presence, with one of the most scintillating cycles of melodie by Berlioz : Les Nuits d’été.
TIMING +/- 1h30 with an intermission
An icon of the Kurdish people, a performer and composer in her own right, as well as a guardian of the traditional repertoire, Aynur Doğan, whose name means “lunar light”, has the gift of enrapturing audiences and offering them unforgettable emotions.
TIMING +/- 1h10, no intermission
DANCE
A former associate artist of the Lille Opera, the choreographer and plastician Christian Rizzo returns with une maison, a creation for 14 dancers that offers a shared space "where intimacy and the common negotiate stories in plural, and attempt poetry together."
TIMING +/- 1h no intermission
Playing with the imagination and perceptions of the viewer, Christian Rizzo creates an unknown space, a moving landscape through which dance, sounds and objects enter into a dialogue with light. A new world, surprising, dreamlike, and open to all ages, from 6 and up.
TIMING +/- 50, no intermission
With works old and new, our favourite dancers from the days of the Frankfurt Ballet return, this time with legs of rubber… Experience an evening that testifies to the incredible artistic vitality of William Forsythe, modest giant of contemporary dance.
TIMING +/- 1h40, one intermission
Free walk in Lille's Opera spaces
TIMING +/- 1h30 no intermission
Sung, danced and accompanied by baroque orchestra, carried by the stunning metamorphoses of François Chaignaud, this intimate epic digs into baroque Spanish tradition to elicit unexpected responses to the questions raised by the genre.
TIMING +/- 1h10, no intermission
EXTRAS
Le dimanche après-midi, pendant que les grands vont au spectacle, les plus jeunes ont aussi leur sortie à l'Opéra !
Avec des intervenants spécialisés, vos enfants apprennent à écouter et à bouger ensemble tout en s'amusant pendant que vous assistez à la représentation dans la Grande Salle.
ATTENTION ! Pour que le ou les enfants puissent avoir accès aux ateliers 400 coups, vous devez impérativement disposer de billets pour le spectacle en grande salle. Aucun enfant ne sera admis si ses parents ou accompagnants n'assistent pas au spectacle qui a lieu en parallèle dans la Grande Salle.
OPERA
Incas, Mexicans and passionate exaltation… with Purcell’s vibrant Indian Queen, Emmanuelle Haïm and Guy Cassiers restore the magic and wonder of Baroque opera, mixing text, music and video, in an epic tale that traverses time and the imagination.
Sung in English, titled in French
TIMING +/-3h10 with an intermission
Poetic, political and British, this subtle variation on the famous tale of The Pied Piper by George Benjamin and Martin Crimp raises questions that remain as pertinent today as ever.
Sung in English, titled in French
TIMING +/- 1h no intermission
Inspired by Schumann’s Poet’s Love, two contemporary authors have woven the story of a woman fleeing the Middle East to arrive at the gates of fortress Europe. Brought to the stage by Katie Mitchell, the show offers a delicate hybrid between recital and opera.
Sung in german and english, titled in french
TIMING +/- 1h15, no intermission
An odyssey of friendship and love along the shores of Asia, Les Pêcheurs de perles invites us on a voyage to a land of dreams. Composed by Georges Bizet at the age of 25, this classic is magnified by the fertile imagination of the FC Bergman collective.
Sung and titled in French
TIMING +/- 1h45, no intermission
Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, sung and rearranged by children from the Finoreille des Hauts-de-France, revisited with humour by the young composer Arthur Lavandier. An opportunity to rediscover this classic, and to share a performance with children who – finally! – manage to seize power.
Sung in French and Italian, titled in French
TIMING +/- 1h30, no intermission
Symbolic of Spain’s golden age, the zarzuela gets new life through the double expertise of Vincent Dumestre and Omar Porras. Primarily sung by the women, the action combines burlesque and tragedy to tell the story of a nymph whose great beauty is her downfall.
Sung in Spanish, titled in French
TIMING +/- 2h, no intermission
OUTSIDE
The grotesque tyranny of dictatorships, denounced in words and music by François Sarhan and the Ictus ensemble, with videos designed by the South African artist William Kentridge… Attend an evening of musical theatre that raises the absurd to the level of high art.
TIMING +/- 1h, no intermission