Lyon Opera, Lyon, France
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| Lyon Opera | |
| Designer | Jean Nouvel |
| Location | Lyon, France |
| Date | 1986 to 1993 |
| Building Type | Theater |
| Construction System | steel, glass |
| Context | Urban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | City of Lyon |
| Cost | 72,870,000 Euro (67,000,000 USD) - 1993 values |
| Area | 18,000 square meters (194,000 square feet) |
| Stories | 7 |
| Program | 1300-seat opera, 200-seat amphitheatre, new rehearsal facilities, fly loft, restaurant, administration, workshops, hall |
[edit] In the words of the Creator
"The competition to extend and renovate the Opera House in Lyon, the second largest city in France, was won by Nouvel in 1986 with a project that used the old building, particularly its grand ground- and first-floor façades on the south, east, and west, as a point of departure and reference for the new. The brief called for providing a larger auditorium, a second 200-seat amphitheater (which Nouvel placed in the three new basement levels) and public spaces, including a restaurant, new rehearsal facilities, and a fly tower. By retaining the older façades, Nouvel linked the building to the surrounding official buildings, such as the adjacent nineteenth century Hotel de Ville, the town hall and mayor's office for the city, and the nearby city museum, housed in the nineteenth-century Palais de Saint Pierre." - Ateliers Jean Nouvel
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Architectural team
- Jean Nouvel et Associés, Blamont (competition and conceptual phases) Jean Nouvel, Emmanuel Cattani et Associés (construction phase)
- Project manager: Eric Maria, Françoise Raynaud
- Architects: Marie-France Baldran, Viviane Morteau, Lea Thirode, Sabine Rosant, Material : Andrea Maeder
- Site Coordination: Stefane Robert
- Economist: Sery Bertrand
Consultant team
- Scenography: Babel (design phase), Ducks (construction Phase)
- Consultant Scenographer: Jacques Le Marquet
- Structure: Kephren S.A.
- Acoustics: Peutz Et Associes
- Security: Casso Gaudin
- HVAC: H.G.M
- Cost Consultant: Scic
- Technical Control: Socotec, Apave
- Vault Lighting Consultant: Yann Kersale
- Graphic Designer: Sabine Rosant
- Photographs: Philippe Ruault, Stephane Couturier
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Opéra Nouvel
The Opéra Nouvel (Nouvel Opera House) in Lyon, France is the home of the Opéra National de Lyon. The original opera house was re-designed by the distinguished French architect, Jean Nouvel between 1985 and 1993 and is named after him.
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In 1756, one of the first opera houses created inside an existing freestanding building was opened in Lyon. It was designed by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, the architect of the Panthéon in Paris. By early in the following century it was found to be too small, and Antoine-Marie Chenavard and Jean-Marie Pollet erected the new Lyon theatre which opened on July 1, 1831. It was considered rather undistinguished, but served its purpose.
It was not until 1985 that the City decided to once again re-build the opera house, but this time it was to be within the shell of the existing 1831 building. One of France's most distinguished architects was commissioned to create the house.
The style of the house is essentially Italian with a horseshoe-shaped auditorium and tiers of boxes.
Leaving only the existing foyer and the exterior façade, Nouvel tripled the space within the house by excavating below ground to create rehearsal space and, most strikingly, by doubling the height of the building by creating a steel and glass barrel vault which hid the fly tower as well as providing space for the ballet company. It has been noted that this achievement was "an architectural tour de force, in which the past has been successfully wedded to the future.."
Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendome Press, New York, 1995 ISBN 0-86565-978-8 , albeit with the limited backstage space of the 19th Century theatre still remaining.
Its capacity is about 1,100 seats.
The general director is Serge Dorny, since 2003.
Main conductors
- John Eliot Gardiner 1983 - 1988
- Kent Nagano 1988 - 1998
- Louis Langrée 1998 - 2000
- Ivan Fischer 2000 - 2003
- William Christie, Lothar Koenigs, Gerard Korsten, Emmanuel Krivine, Kirill Petrenko, Evelino Pido 2003 - 2008
- Kazushi Ono 2008 - present
References
External links
- Many interior photos of the House, text in French from Lyon Opera's web site
- Several photos of the House
- Photos of the Opéra
- Opéra de Lyon website (in French)
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[edit] References
- Project information. Ateliers Jean Nouvel web site. http://www.jeannouvel.com. Viewed by D. Owen, 2008.0404.
