Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If you ask Serge Dorny about his priorities in opera, he does not couch his reply in terms of outreach or access – ...

Opera in outer space? Classic FM's resident Beethoven expert John Suchet reviews Opéra de Lyon's most unusual production of Fidelio. When you consider the struggle Beethoven had writing his only opera ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. If opera is about bringing timeless dilemmas into focus, Claude should be an unqualified success. Here is a work, set ...

The opera house is the natural hub, rivalling the magnificent Hôtel de Ville and the Palais St Pierre (home now to the Musée des Beaux-Arts) for dominance on the skyline. But while the latter ...

William Forsythe has been an important choreographer for Lyon Opera Ballet, the stellar contemporary French ballet troupe now on an American tour. Director Yorgos Loukos has steadily acquired Forsythe ...

Serge Dorny: 'It's not about being provocative or disrespectful, I'm trying to find a balance' I'm not just bringing in a video artist just to be provocative, to be trendy “I try to give any artist ...

A group of prestigious choreographers and artists has published an open letter calling for the director of the Lyon Opera to be reinstated, after he was fired last month over a case of discrimination.

From above the Opéra National de Lyon reveals its unique blend of classical stone architecture and contemporary glass extension set within the dense historic fabric of central Lyon. The elliptical ...