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Polifemo
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Nicola Porpora
from Tuesday, 8 October 2024 to Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
We knew about blind love, but it can also be one-eyed... Coveting the beautiful nymph Galatea unsuccessfully, the cyclops Polyphemus, son of Poseidon, is ready to unleash his fury. But the boundless courage of a lovestruck shepherd and an adventurer named Ulysses will thwart the titan's plans...
Written for the two most famous castrati of the time, Senesino and Farinelli, Porpora's Polyphemus borrows from Homer and Ovid to unleash passions even more intensely, in the air as well as on the seas. It associates the couple formed by Ulysses and Calypso with that of Acis and Galatea, to better tell the troubled love of nymphs for mortals...
And the anger of a wounded superhuman.In Bruno Ravella's staging, the monsters and pyrotechnics beloved in the 18th century have become Technicolor escapades. They are magics reminiscent of Hollywood in the 1950s, with their saturated colors, exoticism, and both refined and naive special effects. In this world of strong emotions and high contrasts, Emmanuelle Haïm, at the head of the Concert d'Astrée, finds her favorite period again and brings out with brilliance the colors of a pearl from the Baroque repertoire, still unpublished in France.
Emmanuelle Haïm, Musical Direction
Bruno Ravella, StagingDURATION: +/- 3h with intermission
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Nelken
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Pina Bausch
from Wednesday, 6 November 2024 to Sunday, 10 November 2024
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
A piece that astonished and dazzled the whole world, set on a stage adorned with eight thousand pink carnations, a blazing milestone in the career of a genius, inscribed in the history of dance and theater... Far from grandiosity, "Nelken" is woven from fragile gestures, unforgettable little nothings: a kiss and a slap, a parade, men in light dresses, memories of childhood games, or Gershwin's "The Man I Love" interpreted in sign language... In 1982, while the choreographer had already created shockwaves with the shadows of "Café Müller," she presented a new creation at the Avignon Festival, unveiling its bright, extroverted side. A work whose magnitude did not escape any spectator at the time, and which still holds an undiminished power today. Now directed by choreographer Boris Charmatz, the Tanztheater Wuppertal infuses contemporary energies into this timeless classic.
Pina Bausch, Direction and Choreography
Music by Franz Lehár, Louis Armstrong, Sophie Tucker,
Quincy Jones, and Richard TauberDURATION: +/- 1h50 without intermission
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Trio Sitkovetsky
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Ravel, Chostakovitch, Sierova
Friday, 15 November 2024 20:00
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
The Sitkovetsky trio combines musical rigor with cosmopolitan energies. Their stage commitment has earned them the highest accolades... A petite formal perfection, Ravel's unique trio is experienced as a journey through dreamy landscapes. While much has been written about the first theme being inspired by the composer's Basque heritage, revitalized by a trip to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, one of his biographers asserts that it was inspired by two ice cream vendors dancing the fandango! There is no uncertainty, however, about the famous oriental "pantoum" of this trio, which draws its rhythms from the patterns of Malay poetry. In 1944, afflicted by the death of a friend, Shostakovich composed his Trio No. 2. A work overflowing with grief amplified by the rumors of wartime horrors – the trio concludes with a famous "Dance of Death" drawn from Jewish folk tradition. In addition to these two masterpieces of the repertoire, there is a creation by the composer Lena Sierova, who has become one of the most promising figures in the Ukrainian music scene in recent years.
Lena Sierova
Trio for violin, cello, and piano, "Bucha" (French premiere)
Maurice Ravel
Trio for violin, cello, and piano in A minor
Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin
Isang Enders, cello
Wu Qian, pianoDURATION: +/- 1h30 with intermission
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Sottobosco
Salle 1Kunstencentrum BUDA, Courtrai
Chiara Bersani
Tuesday, 19 November 2024 20:15
Salle 1Kunstencentrum BUDA, Courtrai
What happens in the thickets, in the chiaroscuro of the undergrowth and the shadows of consciousness? Italian dancer and choreographer Chiara Bersani likes to explore the place of bodies in society. "Sweet Unicorn," as she introduced herself in her previous show, stands at 98 centimeters tall. Her intimate experience with disability has informed both her perception and her artistic imagination, sharpening the uniqueness of her approach. In this new performance, she stages a group of children with reduced mobility, lost, perhaps abandoned. Above them, a sky of sounds and lights. Below, the tangle of the undergrowth, other sounds, other gleams, living organisms... and spectators. Through the variations of a visually and sonically evolving universe, she sketches an allegory of life, survival, a gentle and subtle meditation, poetic and political, on childhood, on the body – its power, its limits, its place in nature...
Chiara Bersani choreography, text
DURATION: +/- 50min
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David et Jonathas
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
from Friday, 6 December 2024 to Tuesday, 10 December 2024
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Just as "Dido and Aeneas" had been composed for a girls' boarding school, "David and Jonathan" was created in a Jesuit college – and with an openly didactic purpose. Friendship, loyalty, betrayal, sacrifice... It's no longer a distant legend but the destiny of two young boys, faced with irrevocable choices. According to Sébastien Daucé, "this gives the work an adolescent perspective, which brings about a spontaneity, a strength, a form of uncompromising nature that is extraordinary in the entire lyrical repertoire." Organist, harpsichordist, and musical director of the ensemble Correspondances, Daucé has emerged as a major figure of the new generation of French Baroque specialists. With "David and Jonathan," he offers a rediscovery of the refinement and power of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's music, in one of the peaks of his dramatic oeuvre. To make this timeless story more palpable, stage director Jean Bellorini has chosen a poetic approach, emphasizing the sadly eternal nature of religious, political, and ethnic conflicts, which unfortunately continue to inflame the world.
Sébastien Daucé, Musical Direction
Jean Bellorini, StagingDURATION: +/- 2h30 with intermission
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Voice Noise
Grande SalleConcertgebouw - Bruges
Jan Martens
Wednesday, 11 December 2024 20:00
Grande SalleConcertgebouw - Bruges
At the Concertgebouw in Bruges
A celebrated and often radical figure in Flemish contemporary dance, Jan Martens has made a name for himself with pieces that unsettle and provoke thought. From the raw energy of "The Dog Days Are Over" to expansive works designed for the ballet company of the Flanders Opera, his creations have earned him international recognition. With "Voice Noise," he draws inspiration from the texts of Canadian philosopher and poet Anne Carson to amplify the voices of women who have been silenced for centuries. "Six dancers confront recordings in which the human voice unfolds in various forms: humming, soothing, screaming, whispering, singing. Gradually, they discover their own voice..." Perhaps the beginning of a story yet to be told...
Jan Martens Creation 2024
DURATION: +/- 1h30
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Nomades
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
40e anniversaire de l’association Attacafa
Tuesday, 17 December 2024 20:00
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Attacafa is turning 40! A long-standing partner of the Lille Opera, this universal nomadic stage dedicated to "world" music defines itself as a "welcoming and militant utopia" that spreads harmonies, traditions from all origins, and celebrates the pleasures of encounter. For this anniversary concert, it has concocted a creation that brings together four women – emerging figures from a rich and diverse Mediterranean heritage. Of Armenian origin, Jaklin Baghdasaryan spent her childhood in Belarus before immigrating to Tourcoing, where she founded the duo Ladaniva. Éléonore Fourniau spent six years studying in Istanbul, where she forged her unique style of singing, accompanied by the hurdy-gurdy. Franco-Greek, Dafné Kritharas filters popular folklore melodies through her enchanted lenses. Emma Prat, a voice with multiple facets, bridges jazz, fado, and bolero. She draws from her musical encounters in Greece, Turkey, and Spain to nourish and enrich her vocal imagination.
Jaklin Baghdasaryan, Dafné Kritharas, Emma Prat - vocals
Éléonore Fourniau - vocals, hurdy-gurdy, saz, davul
Paul Barreyre - guitar and vocals
Sylvain Barou - flute, duduk, zurna, and bagpipes
Apostolos Sideris - double bass
Ersoj Kazimov - percussionDURATION: +/- 1h30
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Chotto Desh
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Akram Khan, Sue Buckmaster
from Wednesday, 8 January 2025 to Thursday, 9 January 2025
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
DANCE - FOR FAMILIES
How can one share the intimate experience of dual culture and exile? To tell the story of his homeland, the renowned choreographer Akram Khan created a solo piece – from the Bangladesh of his origins remained only a syllable: DESH. A show that almost immediately became an international success... Khan then decided to offer a version specifically designed for children, conceived by the British director Sue Buckmaster. Chotto Desh, meaning "Little Homeland," is a performance shaped like a journey back to the roots, blending dance, mime, dialogues, and animated projections. Designed as a phantasmagoria, it summons both the voice of a grandmother and the dreams and glorified memories of childhood. Populated with butterflies and fragile ships, elephants and roots of the sky, the piece has already enchanted young audiences worldwide.
DURATION: +/- 1h
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scènes de Montag aus Licht
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen
from Saturday, 18 January 2025 to Sunday, 19 January 2025
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Eva est la mère cosmique de tous les êtres et le lundi – Montag – est son jour. Puissance génitrice et sensuelle, elle va livrer au monde des créatures fantastiques et ensorceler les humains… Poursuivant sa mise en lumière du grand cycle Licht. Les Sept Jours de la semaine de Stockhausen, Le Balcon ouvre l’atelier de fabrication d’un opéra, proposant des répétitions ouvertes, des séances d’écoutes et des représentations des scènes solistes d’une œuvre-monde.
Dans Montag, Stockhausen célèbre la naissance du monde et la part féminine de l’humanité à travers ses symboles (la lune, l’eau, l’enfantement) qui croisent toutes les cultures et toutes les temporalités humaines. Écrit de 1981 à 1984, Montag aus Licht pousse la virtuosité instrumentale, la composition électronique et les défis technologiques à un niveau unique. Créé en 1988 à la Scala de Milan, Montag fait « exploser » les limites du théâtre à l’italienne, pour créer une véritable magie rêvée par le compositeur.
Après Freitag aus Licht, montré en 2022 à l’Opéra de Lille, Le Balcon propose une sélection de scènes solistes du Lundi de Lumière, dans le cadre de la très longue préparation que demande cet opéra.Maxime Pascal direction musicale
Silvia Costa mise en espaceDURÉE : +/- 2h30 entracte compris
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Le Barbier de Séville
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Gioacchino Rossini
from Thursday, 27 February 2025 to Monday, 10 March 2025
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
"Time and poetry are in the music of opera. The composer's perspective is already a director's perspective. There is a part of poetry that we don't have to take into account, the music takes care of it," explains Jean-François Sivadier.
In his "Barber of Seville," which was met with resounding success at the Opéra de Lille in 2013 and is being revived here with a new generation of singers, everything is about fantasy, energy, and surprise. From Spanish flair to misunderstandings, from playful anachronisms to the timeless joys of slapstick humor, Sivadier delivers a vibrant and modern version of the classic. This presentation showcases in its most radiant colors this joyful masterpiece, which combines the style of Beaumarchais' original comedy with the refinement of Rossini. In three weeks of happy creative frenzy, the composer crafted some of his most dazzling arias: Figaro's, the slander aria, or the vocal fireworks of "Una voce poco fa"... On the evening of its premiere in 1816, this "Barber of Seville" first caused a scandal... before, a week later, achieving a triumph that, nearly two centuries later, remains unchallenged.
Diego Ceretta, Musical Direction
Jean-François Sivadier, Stage DirectionDURATION: +/- 3h15 with intermission
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Ode à sainte Cécile
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Georg Friedrich Händel
from Friday, 14 March 2025 to Saturday, 15 March 2025
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
"Praised be Saint Cecilia, patroness of musicians! Composed in 1739, Handel's work exalts both 'the powerful brilliance of trumpets' and 'the sweet and plaintive flute,' or even 'those divine harmonies that confuse Earth with paradise.' The verses, inspired and lyrical, are by the Poet Laureate of the Crown, John Dryden – loyal spectators will recall his exotic 'Indian Queen,' set to Purcell's music, presented at the Opéra de Lille in 2019. They will also not have forgotten soprano Elsa Benoit, heard in the title role of the exceptional production of Handel's 'Semele' in the fall of 2022 and who here takes on one of the solo parts. Alongside her, the American tenor with a luminous timbre, Eric Ferring, was Don Ottavio in last season's 'Don Giovanni'... In addition to Handel, there will be a selection of arias, symphonies, and excerpts from the works of Jean-Philippe Rameau. A grand Baroque celebration, in which Emmanuelle Haïm and the orchestra and choir of her Concert d'Astrée will resonate with timeless splendor.
Jean-Philippe Rameau - arias, symphonies, and excerpts from operas
Georg Friedrich Handel - Ode to Saint Cecilia, HWV 76 for soloists, choir, and orchestraDURATION: +/- 1h45 with intermission"
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Mycelium
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Christos Papadopoulos
from Tuesday, 25 March 2025 to Thursday, 27 March 2025
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
What is neither animal nor vegetable, and proves more enduring than these two kingdoms combined? Mycelium! It is the buried part of the fungus – which unfolds in nature to create a formidable underground world of capillaries. "For me, it's not repetition but constant evolution. We try to create a common pulsation, a vibration," explains Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos, whose piece once again evokes the flows and feats of the living. An inspiration he has drawn from since his childhood contemplations and adventures. After the flow of waves in the highly acclaimed "Elvedon" in 2016, followed by schools of fish or bird migrations, he now invites the audience to observe the modulations of an underground and unexplored wave. It took all the virtuosity of the dancers from the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon to make these micromovements vibrate, which emerge and evolve, sometimes at the threshold of perception, to the electro music of composer Coti K.
Christos Papadopoulos, Choreography
Coti K., MusicDURATION: +/- 1h without intermission
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Faust
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Faust
Charles Gounod
from Monday, 5 May 2025 to Thursday, 22 May 2025
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Gounod's "Faust" is the second most performed French opera in the world, just behind "Carmen." But should one take this "Faust" literally? Or see, in the midst of the fable, a celebration of pleasures? From the demonic round dance of the Golden Calf led by Satan himself to Marguerite laughing at her own beauty in the mirror, the spectator can savor all excesses, intoxicate themselves with music... without risking damnation. This contradiction does not escape the enlightened analysis of Denis Podalydès. He sees here "an opera fundamentally anti-Puritan in a Puritan world whose religious code it nevertheless embraces, and pretends to observe. There is in this work a double or duplicitous aspect – a structural hypocrisy, typical of the Second Empire. For Gounod is a true Catholic plagued by demons all the more diabolical because he is a fervent Christian." After examining another great figure of theater, Falstaff, in his Verdian dimension, the director tackles here the tragic hero of Goethe, using the spoken dialogues of Jules Barbier that were part of the work at its creation in 1859, to reveal all its ambiguities. A way of celebrating, through Gounod's opera, eternal youth.
Louis Langrée musical direction
Denis Podalydès stagingDURATION: +/- 3h30 including intermission
sung, spoken, and subtitled in FrenchProduct not currently on sale
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Canciones
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Gaëlle Arquez, Susan Manoff
Tuesday, 27 May 2025 20:00
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Fire temperaments, enchanting lullabies, thwarted and fierce loves... Spanish songs and melodies love drama but also the subtlety of sentiment... On the program of this recital, the cream of Spanish composers: Granados, of course, the Catalan Fernando Obradors, adapting García Lorca, Xavier Montsalvatge, a friend of Olivier Messiaen. But also the esteemed French composer of Lakmé, Léo Delibes, and inspirations from across the Atlantic: Carlos Guastavino, flame of Argentine romanticism, or the Mexican Agustín Lara nicknamed the "musician poet," whose irresistible melodies were immortalized by both Caruso and Frank Sinatra... So many gems that will be sublimated by the mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez. In her impressive international career, she has portrayed a staggering array of roles: Charlotte at the Vienna Staatsoper, Dorabella at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Isabella in Milan, Cenerentola at the Liceu in Barcelona... Quite impressive! But above all, she was a remarkable Carmen, at the Opéra Comique but also outdoors, under the Eiffel Tower, in front of an ecstatic audience...
Program of Spanish songs by:
Fernando Obradors, Agustín Lara, Carlos Guastavino, Enrique Granados,
Xavier Montsalvatge, Léo Delibes...Gaëlle Arquez mezzo-soprano
Susan Manoff pianoDURATION: +/- 1h30 including intermission
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Così fan tutti
Grande SalleThéâtre municipal Raymond Devos - Tourcoing
d'après Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
from Thursday, 5 June 2025 to Friday, 6 June 2025
Grande SalleThéâtre municipal Raymond Devos - Tourcoing
True to the original and libertine spirit, the company Miroirs Étendus places the classic in a contemporary perspective, in a version where it's no longer about a game of deception, but rather about "being overwhelmed by unexpected, explosive feelings of love." Times change, and so do customs: director Antonio Cuenca Ruiz envisions "Così fan tutti" (are they all like that) as an evening among young people that turns into a grand maneuver of a game of love, both light and serious, intimate yet also political. Drawing from contemporary imagination, he pairs Da Ponte's recitatives with libertine texts from the era, in a vision that is both faithful and modern. In line with this inspiration, the musical adaptation—entrusted to Maël Bailly—captures the richness of the original score while infusing it with more contemporary colors through innovative instrumentation. After revisiting Gluck's "Orpheus and Eurydice," the company continues its collaboration with emerging artists, forging new connections to bring the masterpieces of the repertoire closer to the audience of Hauts-de-France.
Antonio Cuenca Ruiz - Concept and Direction
Maël Bailly - Musical Adaptation
Romain Louveau - Artistic Direction
Fiona Monbet - Musical DirectionDURATION: +/- 1h45 without intermission
at Théâtre municipal Raymond Devos, Tourcoing
Metro line 2, stop Tourcoing Centre
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Roméo et Juliette
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Marcos Morau
from Saturday, 14 June 2025 to Sunday, 15 June 2025
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
The inexhaustible inspiration of Romeo and Juliet: no fewer than twenty-five operas, a dramatic symphony by Berlioz, a plethora of films, and musical comedies... In 1934, in search of a lyrical theme for the Kirov Theatre, Prokofiev chose the subject over Tristan and Isolde or Pelléas et Mélisande... And he was right to do so: thanks to him, the young lovers of Verona shine brilliantly in the legend of 20th-century ballet. This classic tale lends itself this time to the abundant universe of the Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau, a proponent of a "grandiose visual dance theatre."
In 2022, at the Opéra de Lille, he awakened Sleeping Beauty with an androgynous, dreamy, audacious vision. This time, the leader of the Catalan company La Veronal ventures to Verona, dividing the dancers of the Ballet des Flandres into Montagues and Capulets, for a contemporary and deeply personal reinterpretation of the myth. "I love confronting these tales from another time and asking myself what we can do with them today... What interests me above all is to use my creativity, my madness, my nightmares, or my fears to evolve the story."
Marcos Morau choreography
Music by Sergei Prokofiev (excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, ballet of 1935)Ballet of the Opéra des Flandres
DURATION: +/- 1h30 without intermission
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