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The Thousand and One Nights
from 10 to October 12, 2025
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Shéhérazade

Ensemble K - Simone Menezes - Golshifteh Farahani - Suliane Brahim
Concert
Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique
Duration: about 1h00

Program

Distribution

Musique d'après Shéhérazade de Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov
Ensemble K
Simone Menezes , conducting, texte
Golshifteh Farahani , Shéhérazade
Suliane Brahim - sociétaire de la Comédie Française , Dinarzade
Keyvan & Bijan Chemirani , solistes instruments traditionnels
Simon Scardifield , staging, texte
Lynn Serfaty , texte

Scheherazade, the spellbinding storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights, is a legend in her own right—an innocent young woman of magnetic beauty and boundless imagination, whose mystery and resilience have made her a timeless feminist icon.

Karina-Canellakis

Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique

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Getting here

Porte de Pantin station
Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5
Tram 3B 

Address

221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris

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