On stage

One is blonde and sunny, the other brunette and mysterious. Marilyn Monroe and Hedy Lamarr, two Hollywood icons. One evening, their destinies cross and they confide in each other. The glamour quickly disappears, revealing a cruder reality, sexism that continues to weigh heavily on the seventh art.

A fusion of dance and music through drums and movement, a collective invitation to an explosive performance, a response to coming down, the descent after ecstasy. A choreographic work by Mélissa Guex, with music by Clément Grin.

Who is Tartuffe? What is control, predation, consent? A middle-class family is divided over an odd and charismatic pious fraud, condemns him, fantasizes about him or loves him... Between fantasy and social satire, an adaptation in the form of a Gothic novel.

In a magical decor, Laura Chaignat invites several personalities to celebrate the Christmas and New Year festivities.

A fabulous evening orchestrated by Christophe Willem, surrounded by his musicians and a very personal stage decor, for an intimate concert at Olympia based around "Panorama", a 6th album acclaimed by both critics and public.

The 190th Quebec National Day show on the Plains of Abraham! This year's concert theme is "Getting together under the stars", and brings together a host of artists from all musical genres, performing Quebec's finest classics in new arrangements created specially for the occasion.

After the fall of Troy, King Idomeneo returns home. To escape a terrible storm, he promises Neptune that he will sacrifice the first person he sees on landing. In Crete, his son Idamante awaits... With choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, in partnership with the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota.

After the success of her album "Fenfo" and her work in collaboration with international artists such as Roberto Fonseca, Damon Albarn and Lauryn Hill, the singer-songwriter from Mali, a headline figure in the world of contemporary African music, reveals her new album "London KO" during an exceptional concert at Olympia.

After a seven-year absence, the Senegalese singer Faada Freddy returns with a new album entitled "Golden Cages". Using mainly his voice, clapping and body percussion, the musician tackles themes such as the thought standardization, lack of reflection and dehumanization in today's society.

In the spectacular and colourful world of acrobatic rock and roll, two dancers meet up to prepare for a competition. As we follow their rehearsals we discover their doubts and conflicts, the beauty and the difficulty of working together, but also the strength of the bond that unites them.

After an international concert tour crowned with success, the Franco-Algerian icon Souad Massi is back in Paris to present "Sequana", his tenth album. We know him for his folk music and chaabi, but today his musical inspiration has widened to embrace the Sahel and the Caribbean, Brazil and even rock.

With no words other than those of the narrator, Karim Slama invites us to experience the tragic, burlesque fate of a character unable to be anything other than what he has always been: a mime artist.

A forty-year career is definitely something to celebrate! To launch her major anniversary tour, the multi Grammy Award-winning diva from Benin, Angélique Kidjo, has chosen the Pavillon Baltard stage at the Festi'Val de Marne for an exceptional concert in the company of a host of guest stars.

Belgian television celebrates its 70th birthday! And what better than a truly festive evening to mark the moment, an immersion in its most fascinating archives for a ranking of the best moments from the era of the cathode ray tube. Prepare for an incredible journey back in time!

In this production Christiane Jatahy concentrates on the collective rather than individual destinies and romantic intrigues. By placing the choirs in an area significantly larger than the stage itself, she subtly transposes the Assyrian oppression of the Hebrew people into something universal and contemporary.

Resilience to exalt the scars from injuries following a fall or vertigo. For Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, it is rooted in deep meditation. His piece is named after "images from the floating world", an artistic movement which emerged in Japan in the Edo period.

In Egypt, the Frenchman Saint-Phar wants just one thing: to free his beloved Zélime, under the yoke of the slave trader Husca. He himself is hoping to fetch a very good price by selling her to the Pasha...

On stage at the Stravinski Auditorium, Montreux, artists and a choir of nearly two hundred offer cover versions and their own interpretations of Jean-Jacques Goldman's greatest hits.

In the Forbidden City, the Emperor of China rules supreme. His daughter Turandot rejects all her suitors, testing the princes by agreeing to marry the one able to solve three riddles, beheading those who lose. Many try, many fail. Until Prince Calaf. Despite the imperial promise, Turandot hesitates...

Taking inspiration from her eponymous play about a couple and their relationship, Jane Birkin opens her heart in this new album, presented live at the Paris Philharmonic. Slowly matured in an orchestral pop vein, it is the result of a close collaboration with Étienne Daho and Jean-Louis Piérot.

After being submerged by a tidal wave of Belgian humorists, France now welcomes comedians from Switzerland. Through the portraits of Marina Rollman, Thomas Wiesel and Charles Nouveau, "Drôles de Suisses" looks at the new generation of comics making France laugh.

Using pen and stage, Tiago Rodrigues recounts the everyday lives of humanitarian workers in war zones. He confronts the violence of the world with the resilience and humour of those who risk their own lives, day in day out, to help, care for and save those of others.

How to get rid of a mistress when you're planning to marry a wealthy heiress? That's the tricky task preoccupying Bois d'Enghien, lover of Lucette Gautier, fashionable artiste that Baroness Duverger is demanding be present for the signing of the marriage contract between her daughter and... Bois d'Enghien himself!

Scene 5, act IV. Embarrassed by Tartuffe's advances, Elmire coughs to warn her husband Orgon, who's hiding under the table. Mathias Urban has transposed the scene to a modern-day university environment, where a professor, a hypocritical sexual predator, sets out to seduce a PhD student during a symposium on Molière.

Part folk tale, part the stations of the cross... Arriving in New York in 1884, the engineer Nikola Tesla - who had become Gregor - wanted to revolutionise the uses of electricity. But, driven by the thrill of discovery rather than by profit, he finally preferred a reclusive life with his birds.

Make way for a host of new comedy talent from the Francophone world!

One of the most demanding international competitions and the one with the highest media coverage. Created in 1937, the Queen Élisabeth Competition is a springboard for young violinists, pianists, singers and cellists as they begin their international career, a direct link between the virtuosos and the most important musical venues.