Create new productions on our stages

Supporting the artists and the Opera’s artistic ambition for the seasons to come.

Maintaining the creative capacity of the Opera, weakened by the health crisis and the economic context.
To have about 1/3 new shows each season.
To enrich the opera's lyrical and choreographic repertoire in a permanent way.
To introduce the Parisian public to forgotten works or works recently created in other theatres.
To support artists, singers, dancers, directors, choreographers, by allowing the new generation already recognised to perform alongside experienced artists.
Meeting new audiences and engage with new generations through contemporary creation.
To engage in the creation of new shows in an ecological and responsible way.

The project

The Paris Opera is a place of live performance, where artistic creation is one of its fundamental missions. Each season, nearly a third of the shows programmed at the Paris Opera are creations, new productions or entries to the repertoire.

The Opera wishes to:

Create new shows that could become pillars of the house repertoire and be revived in future seasons. By focusing on the great works that are indispensable (e.g. The Marriage of Figaro, Turandot).
Introduce the Parisian public to works that have fallen into oblivion, particularly in relation to the history of the house, or those created recently in other houses.

The Opera thus wishes to put in place a sustainable and more economically reasonable creation policy, which will also make it possible to attract talent, to better interact with the public of our time and to take into account the dimensions of sustainable development.

The calendar

May 2021

Launch of the 21/22 season

September 2021

Opening of the new season 21/22

Eleven new shows

At Palais Garnier and at Opéra Bastille

Did you know?

Nine new operas out of 21 titles in 21/22, despite the economic context. There were 7 new opera performances in 18/19 and 6 in 19/20.
Five new choreographic performances, including a very large-scale project: the creation of Le Rouge et le Noir ( the Red and the Black).
The Opera's community of artists is made up of 440 permanent artists: 154 dancers, 174 musicians from the Orchestra, 112 artists from the Chorus, but also 150 students at the Dance School and some 30 artists in residence at the Academy.
Each season at the Paris Opera: more than 400 performances of operas, ballets and concerts, and about 880,000 spectators, and 50% of the opera audience in France.

La galerie