Louise - Lyon Opera house (2026) - Louise - Opéra national de Lyon (2026)

Description

New production,
Co-production with: Aix-en-Provence Festival (where it will be performed in July 2025), Palazzetto Bru Zane - Center for French Romantic Music, Opéra-Comique.

"The profusion of small and supporting roles, difficult to bring together, is one of the reasons why Louise has been rarely programmed since the end of the 1950s. Very attached to this work, which he regards as a masterpiece of the repertoire and which he first approached in 2008 at the Düsseldorf Opera, Christof Loy offers a new approach. He has chosen for this second staging to focus on the psychological complexity of Louise. He thus highlights the illusions, dreams and fantasies that the young woman maintains as a defense mechanism, in order to escape the grip of a harmful family environment. For, behind the "mad love" that her father devotes to her, here hides the horrible reality of repeated abuse, covered up by a mother who has become jealous of her own daughter. The scenography by Étienne Pluss and the costumes by Robby Duiveman evoke with nostalgia and theatricality an imaginary Paris, which represents for Louise the horizon of all possibilities."

More information is available on the official website of the opera house.