Opéra

This centerpiece of Lyon's 1st District (69001), located near Place des Terreaux and Hotel de Ville (City Hall) in the very heart of the Presqu'île peninsula, is a short walk from the Banks of the Rhône. Here, you will discover the Opéra neighborhood, the Mecca of Lyon's musical tradition. If you are staying nearby, you will definitely want to visit this monument!

Opera National de Lyon, this will attract the attention of music that you may be.

The recent history of this opera house is made of the creation ex nihilo in 1983 by the Orchestra of the Opera quickly associate young instrumentalist and seasoned leaders to switch desks and directory creation, operatic and symphonic. The names of John Eliot Gardiner, the first music director, Kent Nagano, Louis Langrée Iván Fischer and the life of the whole. The Ballet Master and the Opera Studio complete the musical heritage of Lyon also widely supported by a dynamic audio-visual. All this contributes to the musical life of the city and the region for about 150 000 people per year with a total of over 350 people including 175 artists.

The opera originated in Italy in 1607 with the Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi quickly spread to Lyon, where performances were given in game rooms in the palm of Terreaux or the Place Bellecour and Saint Jean. The first theater dedicated to this art was Soufflot built by the architect of the Hotel Dieu in Lyon and the Pantheon in Paris. Replaced by a building constructed between 1828 and 1832 by Pollet and Chenavard and it has undergone a new renovation between 1986 and 1993 which gave the present building works modern and functional with a view leaves no visitor indifferent .

The operation was entrusted to the architect Jean Nouvel who has succeeded in tripling the volume inside the old building through a development in the basement and the creation of an upper floor covered with a canopy of glass, emphasized by Yann Kersale. The original facades have been retained so that the transition between styles.

The peristyle black granite slab is a place of trade talks by the transparency that ensures contact between the inside and outside. Musical life is ensured by the presence of daytime animation that allows viewers to carry comfortably to book their places, they are not subscribers, as are many Lyonnais.

Room 1 200 seats configuration Italian, was built with materials carefully selected and a connection between the room and the scene that gives it exceptional acoustic qualities.

Very nice contrast with the modern architecture of the room, the vault and access the gold and stucco home of the public are a reminder of the building as it existed in the nineteenth century.

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