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Orchestre de Paris concerts

In addition to concerts with its music director Klaus Mäkelä, the Orchestre de Paris performs with prestigious guest conductors, such as its close collaborator Esa-Pekka Salonen and new talents from the younger generation.
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Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
6 & September 7, 2023

This fascinating snapshot of Russian music around 1910 brings together Petrushka’s sarcastic leaps, the liturgical depth of Rachmaninov’s Bells, and the intrepid modernism of young Prokofiev.

Concert
Igor Stravinski / Histoire du soldat
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 6:00 pm

A label-defying work created for the simple stage of itinerant theatre, The Soldier’s Tale recounts the ‘disasters of war’. The score full of surprises is one of Stravinsky’s most original. 

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Semyon Bychkov
13 & September 14, 2023

Mahler’s longest symphony—a meditative, cosmic, sombre, lyrical and mysteriously speculative work—is a singular musical experience, marked by orchestral expressiveness and vocal wizardry. 

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Elim Chan
20 & September 21, 2023

Between heavenly delights and infernal visions, this programme takes us from the Orientalist melodies of Scheherazade to the jubilation of Offenbach’s opera buffa, with a diabolically rhythmic middle piece by Daníel Bjarnason, featuring soloist Martin Grubinger.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Paavo Järvi
27 & September 28, 2023

The Legend of Joseph calls upon dance to express the torments of faith and desire, while the Violin Concerto imposes its youthful vitality. These two Straussian works are here set upon a touchstone in the repertoire, César Franck’s mystical masterpiece.  

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
4 & October 5, 2023

The sensual hedonism of Debussy’s Faun and the equivocal enchantments of Bartók’s Mandarin—to these colourful orchestral marvels, are paired with nothing less than the twin peaks of the repertoire, Ravel’s two concertos, entrusted to the fingers of Yuja Wang. 

Concert Opera
George Benjamin / Lessons in Love and Violence
Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The new master stroke from the Benjamin/Crimp duo: with Shakespearean force, these lessons of tragic intensity project onto the stage the death struggle of heightened passions. A dramatic work that pales not before Hamlet!

 

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Nathalie Stutzmann
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 at 8:00 pm

With Prokofiev’s subtle folklore, Shostakovich’s sharp quotations, and Beethoven’s musical imagination in search of a bucolic Arcadia, this special programme presents three different faces of folk-inspired material.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Nathalie Stutzmann
Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Family Concert
Concert’eau
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 4:00 pm

The Orchestre de Paris invites the audience to join it in a watery adventure, following Sabine Quindou and her sea turtle as they explain the vital importance of water and the oceans, with the help of Beethoven, Respighi and Debussy.

Concert avec images
Concert’eau
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The Orchestre de Paris invites the audience to join it in a watery adventure, following Sabine Quindou and her sea turtle as they explain the vital importance of water and the oceans, with the help of Beethoven, Respighi and Debussy.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm

A programme examining two types of journey: one embracing the charms of fantasized exoticism, with pieces by Saint-Saëns and Ravel; and the other, the ‘inner’ journey, with Dowland’s elegiac depth and Schumann’s most dolorous symphony.  

Symphonic Concert
Gustav Mahler / Symphonie des « Mille »
24 & November 25, 2023

This legendary score, famously dubbed ‘of a Thousand’ by an impresario, threw symphonic norms to the wind. Mahler conceived it as an ode to the creative spark, the genius of humanity and the immensity of the universe.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Philippe Jordan
29 & November 30, 2023

It is not uncommon for unfinished scores to be the most accomplished, as this programme attests with Schubert’s most mysterious symphony, an emblem in the repertoire, and Bruckner’s masterful final opus steeped in metaphysical introspection.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
6 & December 7, 2023

A ravishing pairing of two of Russian music’s emblematic scores: the dreamlike microcosm of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, and the virtuoso, lyrical, epic and nostalgic odyssey of Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 8:00 pm

A subtle alchemy of styles and periods permeates this programme placing two great masters of the Germanic tradition, Bach and Brahms, in dialogue with the rippled textures of Ligeti and a contemporary piece by Unsuk Chin dedicated to another titan, Beethoven.

Show
Transfiguré - 12 Vies de Schönberg
from 9 to January 11, 2024

Arnold Schönberg, a defining figure of modernism and founder of the ‘Vienna School’, embodies an aesthetic turning point closely linked to the most horrific history of the 20th century: to convey the range of his genius, twelve stations are not too many.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Lahav Shani
17 & January 18, 2024

In this programme of paradox—that of coming to peace from the depths of despair or sensing the abyss in a moment of serenity—the tranquillity of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto stands in contrast to Mahler’s Sixth, a tumult of drama, chaos and threats.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
24 & January 25, 2024

An evening of contrasts juxtaposing the cosmic magnetism of Anna Thorvalddottir, the narrative vigour of a quasi-autobiographical Strauss, and the passionate romanticism—at once tender, epic and lyrical—of young Chopin.

Concert with video
Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salonen
January 31 & February 1, 2024

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the orchestra in a rendering of Debussy’s Images, punctuated by the pianistic poetry of Jean-Yves Thibaudet, as if to introduce Stravinsky’s galvanizing Les Noces, accompanied by the custom designed graphics of Hillary Leben. 

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salonen
7 & February 8, 2024

Exploring the musical notion of image this season, Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the orchestra in examining the mysteries of painting and offers a colourful homage to the iconic father figure of music, Bach.

Symphonic Concert
Carte blanche à Esa-Pekka Salonen
Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 8:00 pm

For this ‘Carte blanche’ concert entrusted to Esa-Pekka Salonen, the programme centres around space itself, with Marcus Lindberg’s impressive Kraft followed by an exploration of sound spaces, at the cutting edge of contemporary music. 

Concert with video
Ballets russes
28 & February 29, 2024

Produced in collaboration with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, this special concert of two of Stravinsky’s mythical ballets gives ‘carte blanche’ to two inventive film artists, for an evening of not only reverie but also new readings and perspectives. 

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
6 & March 7, 2024

The meeting of two monuments in the Russian repertoire: Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2, steeped in modernist fury, and one of Shostakovich’s most gloriously narrative Symphonies, a page in history and fervent indictment of all tyrannies.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Christoph Eschenbach
3 & April 4, 2024

Max Bruch’s superb ‘Double Concerto’ embodies faithfulness to romanticism as the very essence of music, while Brahms’ Quartet, turned by Schönberg into a ‘Fifth Symphony’, radiates mastery and subtle modernity.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Haydn
Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Profuse, incredibly inventive and always surprising, Haydn seems to have both invented and surpassed the ‘classical style’, as reflected in this programme of contrasts, to which a new work by Helen Grime adds a moving tribute. 

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Haydn
Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A tribute to Haydn’s insatiable genius and ironic spirituality, with this electrifying programme that concludes with Ligeti’s enchanting sound textures—intricate polyphonies in which music seems both to be born and to disintegrate.

Symphonic Concert
Carmina Burana
17 & April 18, 2024

A programme that moves between religiousness and paganism—from table to altar—of Carmina Burana. As a bonus, a new work by Korean composer Unsuk Chin, master of colours and dreamy textures.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Herbert Blomstedt
24 & April 25, 2024

Bruckner’s last fully completed work, Symphony No. 8, displays extraordinary force, as if, in an epic gesture of testamentary synthesis, the composer sought to write not his final opus but the ultimate symphony. 

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
6 & May 7, 2024

A memorable Beethovenian celebration with this inspired pairing of an almost forgotten gem, his Elegiac Song, with the cultural monument that has become an emblem of the European Enlightenment, his Ninth Symphony.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A programme designed as a captivating play of light and shadow, in which Schönberg’s night journey—exploring the bounds of passion—is a prelude to Mahler’s ardent fresco, bathed in chiaroscuro, on the ideal life.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A programme designed as a captivating play of light and shadow, in which Schönberg’s night journey—exploring the bounds of passion—is a prelude to Mahler’s ardent fresco, bathed in chiaroscuro, on the ideal life.

Family Concert
Luz et les Sonidos
from 25 to May 26, 2024

The fabulous adventure of a little girl, Luz, plunged deep into the world of instruments and their mysteries. Families follow along on this journey, discovering Luz’s other companions—the ‘Sonidos’ with their changing colours and Beethoven’s Symphonies!

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä / Lang Lang
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A must-see concert, each piece as compelling as the last: Lang Lang’s fingers fly over the keys in a fiery Concerto by Saint-Saëns; a magnetic piece by Miroslav Srnka makes its French premiere; and we hear a Mozart symphony celebrating Parisian hedonism.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä / Lang Lang
Friday, June 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm

In its way of organising the coalition of individual sounds and the orchestral collective, Srnka’s Superorganisms operates as an ode to orchestra itself; the demonstration of orchestral versatility being continued with Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Mendelssohn.

International orchestras

From all over the world, the greatest orchestras are invited to the Philharmonie. They give their full measure in the exceptional acoustics of the Grande salle Pierre Boulez.
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International orchestras
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Symphonic Concert
Berliner Philharmoniker / Kirill Petrenko
Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Kirill Petrenko returns to Paris with ‘his’ Berliner Philharmoniker, two years after the memorable two-evening appearance that gave Parisian audiences their first chance to see him as the orchestra’s chief conductor.

Symphonic Concert
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra / Lahav Shani
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra performing from its favourite repertoire with Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Brahms’ First Symphony, both composed in the late 1870s.

Symphonic Concert
Symphonieorchester des bayerischen Runkfunks / Sir Simon Rattle
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Mahler’s Sixth, sometimes called his ‘Tragic’ symphony, impresses with its emotional power. With a well-established reputation in interpreting the Austrian composer’s repertoire, Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Orchestra are the performers of choice. 

Symphonic Concert
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The London Symphony Orchestra in a Germanic program, under the baton of its future music director, Sir Antonio Pappano, to succeed Simon Rattle.

Symphonic Concert
The Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 4:00 pm

This first of two evenings dedicated to Rachmaninoff by the Philadelphia Orchestra, in honour of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, feature his 1907 Second Symphony and his later Fourth Piano Concerto.

 

Symphonic Concert
The Philadelphia Orchestra / Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Monday, October 30, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The Philadelphia Orchestra boasts a strong Rachmaninoff tradition tracing back to the last century. For its second evening in the composer’s honour, it presents his First Symphony and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, separated by almost forty years.

 

Vocal Concert
Teatro di San Carlo
Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Founded in 2021 by Stéphane Lissner, the Académie du Teatro San Carlo has already established itself as a preeminent ambassador of the prestigious Neapolitan opera house. It offers a tribute to Mozart and to five composers with ties to Paris.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre de chambre de Lausanne / Renaud Capuçon
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne with its artistic director Renaud Capuçon in a programme spanning some 170 years of Germanic music, from Mozart’s Concerto No. 5 to Strauss’ twilight Metamorphoses.

 

Symphonic Concert
Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Riccardo Muti
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A resolutely Italian-inspired programme (with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 and Strauss' Aus Italien) for this ‘last tour’ concert by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Muti conducting.

 

Symphonic Concert
Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Yuja Wang
Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm

In a resolutely chamber-music spirit, Yuja Wang shares this eclectic programme with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The young Chinese virtuosa—a maverick in the piano cosmogony—also leads the orchestra in this inspired conversation.

 

Symphonic Concert
Concertgebouw Orchestra / Myung-Whun Chung
Monday, January 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The legendary Amsterdam orchestra with one of the finest sound signatures in Europe explores the work of Mahler, a repertoire for which its conductor Myung-Whun Chung has a particular fondness. Emanuel Ax joins them to perform Mozart.

Concert
Camerata Salzburg / Janine Jansen
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm

In the spring of 2023, Janine Jansen with her 1715 Stradivarius was joined by the Salzburg Camerata for a Mozartian concert tour. They now come to Paris, with a programme that also includes Haydn.

Symphonic Concert
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons
Saturday, March 2, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Symphonic Concert
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig / Andris Nelsons
Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Symphonic Concert
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Simon Rattle presents a programme exalting American music’s most flamboyant gems, from Roy Harris’s Symphony No. 3 to Gershwin’s comparable rhythms, and a new work by John Adams, one of the most acclaimed composers of our time.

Symphonic Concert
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Simon Rattle leads the London Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’ intoxicating Violin Concerto, a monument in the genre, with Isabelle Faust as soloist, before taking on Shostakovich’s daring and dazzling Symphony No. 4.

Symphonic Concert
Orchestre symphonique de la Radio Suédoise / Daniel Harding
Monday, March 11, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Keen collaborators Daniel Harding and Maria Joao Pires perform one of Mozart’s best-known concertos, before the British conductor takes on Strauss’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra, forever associated with Kubrick’s iconic film.

Symphonic Concert
Czech Philharmonic / Semyon Bychkov
Friday, March 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The best-known of Dvořák’s three concertos, Opus 104, rings out tonight under the bow of Pablo Ferrández, whom critics have hailed as the ‘new genius of cello’. He is accompanied by the Czech Philharmonic in this programme from its native canon.

Symphonic Concert
Czech Philharmonic / Semyon Bychkov
Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Neither Firkušný’s recordings nor Sviatoslav Richter and Carlos Kleiber’s interpretation were enough to secure the status of Dvořák’s Piano Concerto. But this did not dissuade Bertrand Chamayou, accompanied by Semyon Bychkov and the Czech Philharmonic.

 

Symphonic Concert
Münchner Philharmoniker / Daniel Harding
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm

After their joint concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris in late 2021, where we heard them in a repertoire from the first half of the 20th century, Daniel Harding and Renaud Capuçon return to perform Escaich’s new violin concerto.

 

Symphonic Concert
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Antonio Pappano / Martha Argerich
Monday, April 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm

It has been ten years since Claudio Abbado passed away, after a life dedicated to music. His close collaborator Martha Argerich and Antonio Pappano pay tribute to this great maestro, an unforgettable figure in 20th century conducting.

Symphonic Concert
Los Angeles Philharmonic / Gustavo Dudamel
Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm

With the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel is truly defining a ‘new world’, invoking boundless creative spirit and verve. It is a vision shared by María Dueñas who, at just 20 years old, is setting the international scene on fire.

Opera
Ludwig van Beethoven / Fidelio
Friday, May 31, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Symphonic Concert
Oslo Philharmonic / Klaus Mäkelä
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Klaus Mäkelä leads the Oslo Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Chief Conductor, in Brahms’ First Symphony and Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, the latter of which he will both play and conduct.

 

Themes

Mini-festivals on a theme, genre, musician, instrument or geographic area – with concerts, conferences, shows and family workshops, etc.
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Themes

Staged music

Throughout the season, staged shows place music in dialogue with other artistic forms.
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Staged music
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Opera
Sun & Sea
from 15 to September 17, 2023

The opera Sun & Sea (Marina) by Lithuanian composer and visual artist Lina Lapelytè immerses us in the languor of a summer day at the seaside. A performance, with a tinge of salt in the air, that alerts us to the consequences of climate change.

Participatory Show
80 minutes
Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Inspired by the emblematic nations of rugby, conductor Zahia Ziouani, choreographer Mourad Merzouki and stage director Laurent Soffiati lead a company of amateurs and professionals in a stirring musical show drawn from sport, song, dance and words.

Opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen / Sonntag aus Licht (scènes 1 et 2)
16 & November 17, 2023

Composed between 1998 and 2003, Sonntag aus Licht is the last completed opera in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s cycle Licht. Premiered posthumously in 2011, it celebrates the mystical union of Michael and Eve, and the banishment of Lucifer.

Opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen / Sonntag aus Licht (scènes 3, 4 et 5)
Monday, November 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Composed between 1998 and 2003, Sonntag aus Licht is the last completed opera in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s cycle Licht. Premiered posthumously in 2011, it celebrates the mystical union of Michael and Eve, and the banishment of Lucifer.

Opera
Philip Glass / Einstein on the Beach
from 23 to November 26, 2023

When they premiered Einstein on the Beach in Avignon in 1976, Philip Glass, Bob Wilson and Lucinda Childs made a monumental splash in the operatic pond, introducing a work nothing short of revolutionary, yet also returning to the genre’s roots in mythology.

Opera
Henry Purcell / The Fairy Queen
4 & January 6, 2024

In 1988, Les Arts Florissants presented one of the jewels of the English Baroque, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Nearly thirty-five years later, they revisit this enchanting work in the company of choreographer Mourad Merzouki.

Show
Transfiguré - 12 Vies de Schönberg
from 9 to January 11, 2024

Arnold Schönberg, a defining figure of modernism and founder of the ‘Vienna School’, embodies an aesthetic turning point closely linked to the most horrific history of the 20th century: to convey the range of his genius, twelve stations are not too many.

Show
Pelléas etc.
27 & January 28, 2024
Concert Opera
Bernd Alois Zimmermann / Les Soldats
Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Zimmermann’s great opera Die Soldaten was premiered in Cologne in 1965 by Michael Gielen. A work rarely performed in France, it is conducted here by François-Xavier Roth at the head of the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. 

Show
Trilogie Cocteau Philip Glass
from 7 to March 10, 2024

Between 1993 and 1996, Phil Glass composed his Cocteau Trilogy of operas—Orphée, La Belle et la Bête and Les Enfants terribles—from which composer Michael Riesman has arranged suites for two pianos, for Katia and Marielle Labèque.

Show
Benjamin Millepied & Nico Muhly
from 29 to March 31, 2024

Since they met in 2006, Benjamin Millepied and Nico Mulhy, have been regular collaborators in leading international arenas. Here, dancers and musicians together take to the Philharmonie de Paris stage to perform a new work.

Show
Notre Sacre
12 & April 13, 2024

Drawing from dance, music and poetry, Blanca Li, David Grimal and Abd al Malik pay tribute to Stravinsky’s century-old ballet with a bold and militant re-reading that highlights its enduring visionary spirit.

Performance
La Ville dansée
from 7 to June 9, 2024

  Benjamin Millepied’s project La Ville dansée is a three-day event showcasing new works by renowned and up-and-coming choreographers, performed in emblematic and unexpected locations throughout Paris. 

Show
Panenka
Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 4:00 pm

With Panenka, the intrepid Quatuor Leonis ventures into a dynamic field at the intersection between music, dance and freestyle soccer, for an anthological encounter! 

Show
Sasha Waltz & Guests
from 17 to June 19, 2024

Sasha Waltz, one of the greats of contemporary dance, offers her rereading of In C, Terry Riley’s legendary repetitive music piece, with a masterful choreographic translation of mathematical rigour matched by playful freedom. 

Rendering
La vie fantastique
Sunday, June 23, 2024 at 4:00 pm
Family Participatory Concert
La victoire de Karima
Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 11:00 am

Presenting a modern tale on the inner journey, patriarchal society and individual achievement, the world premiere of La Victoire de Karima turns the concert hall, for a day, into a high-voltage boxing ring or sports stadium.

Music and image

Celebrating the juxtaposition of music and image, the Philharmonie presents screenings of cinema classics with live musical accompaniment and experimental audiovisual projects.
All films-in-concert
Music and image
With
Concert with video
Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä
6 & September 7, 2023

This fascinating snapshot of Russian music around 1910 brings together Petrushka’s sarcastic leaps, the liturgical depth of Rachmaninov’s Bells, and the intrepid modernism of young Prokofiev.

Film & Music Performance
Dracula
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Philip Glass’s ability to set the scene in a few chords has won the admiration of many a filmmaker—so for Universal’s 1998 re-release of Tod Browing’s Dracula, he was naturally the composer of choice to create the new score.

Film & Music Performance
Tindersticks / Claire Denis
Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Concert avec images
Concert’eau
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The Orchestre de Paris invites the audience to join it in a watery adventure, following Sabine Quindou and her sea turtle as they explain the vital importance of water and the oceans, with the help of Beethoven, Respighi and Debussy.

Family ciné-concert
Azur et Asmar
from 19 to December 21, 2023

Known-best for his sparkling Kirikou saga, Michel Ocelot created other gems as well, including Azur & Asmar. Inspired by the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights, this delightful animated film is shown here with live musical accompaniment.

Film & Music Performance
Whiplash
30 & January 31, 2024

‘Whiplash’ can mean the blow of a strap or a jolt to the neck. It is also the titular piece of Damien Chazelle’s second feature film, plunging us into the ultra-competitive world of jazz at the highest level.

Concert with video
Orchestre de Paris / Esa-Pekka Salonen
January 31 & February 1, 2024

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the orchestra in a rendering of Debussy’s Images, punctuated by the pianistic poetry of Jean-Yves Thibaudet, as if to introduce Stravinsky’s galvanizing Les Noces, accompanied by the custom designed graphics of Hillary Leben. 

Concert with video
Ballets russes
28 & February 29, 2024

Produced in collaboration with the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, this special concert of two of Stravinsky’s mythical ballets gives ‘carte blanche’ to two inventive film artists, for an evening of not only reverie but also new readings and perspectives. 

Film & Music Performance
Nasty Women
Saturday, March 30, 2024 at 11:00 am

 New works created for four short films from the Cinema’s First Nasty Women project. Students from the Paris Conservatory composed scores for four short films from the early 20th century about feminist protest. 

Show
Carnets de là-bas
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Drawing from her personal memories of the great Natalia Shakhovskaya, and in fertile collaboration with Clément Cogitore, Sonia Wieder-Atherton pays an intimate tribute in words, music and images to the woman who trained her in the art of her instrument.

Voices

The voice has pride of place in the programme: operas of yesterday and today, oratorios, recitals, young talents and stars follow one another.
All voices
Voices
With
Vocal Concert
Johann Sebastian Bach / Messe en si
Monday, September 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Vocal Concert
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Requiem
Sunday, October 1, 2023 at 6:00 pm

No stranger to Mozart’s Requiem, which he has conducted in a number of staged concerts in recent years, Raphaël Pichon returns to the essence of this extraordinary work for his concert at the Philharmonie de Paris.

Concert Opera
Georg Friedrich Haendel / Ariodante
Monday, October 2, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Ariodante by Les Arts Florissants, under the direction of their founder William Christie: a dazzling rendition of Handel’s dramma per musica, which premiered in London in 1735. 

Concert Opera
George Benjamin / Lessons in Love and Violence
Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The new master stroke from the Benjamin/Crimp duo: with Shakespearean force, these lessons of tragic intensity project onto the stage the death struggle of heightened passions. A dramatic work that pales not before Hamlet!

 

Concert
Hannigan sings Zorn
Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Leading soprano Barbara Hannigan pays tribute to the indomitable New York experimentalist John Zorn, in honour of his 70th birthday, with a riveting ensemble of three of his compositions.

Recital
Jakub Józef Orliński
Monday, November 6, 2023 at 8:00 pm

On graduating from the Juilliard School in 2017, Jakub Józef Orliński found himself propelled onto the international stage. With Il Pomo d'Oro, the young Polish countertenor offers a programme faithful to his first Italian loves.

Vocal Concert
Teatro di San Carlo
Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Founded in 2021 by Stéphane Lissner, the Académie du Teatro San Carlo has already established itself as a preeminent ambassador of the prestigious Neapolitan opera house. It offers a tribute to Mozart and to five composers with ties to Paris.

Recital
Rolando Villazón / Xavier de Maistre
Friday, November 10, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Tenor Rolando Villazón and harpist Xavier de Maistre have concocted an assortment of songs from Latin America, evoking its mystery, joy and melancholy in an intimate nocturnal serenade revealing surprising colours.

Recital
English songs
Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Women composers have been chronically overlooked in the history of music. Lucile Richardot, Sarah Nemtanu and Anne de Fornel rehabilitate those who, from across the Channel, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have affirmed singular and sometimes visionary voices.

Opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen / Sonntag aus Licht (scènes 1 et 2)
16 & November 17, 2023

Composed between 1998 and 2003, Sonntag aus Licht is the last completed opera in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s cycle Licht. Premiered posthumously in 2011, it celebrates the mystical union of Michael and Eve, and the banishment of Lucifer.

Opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen / Sonntag aus Licht (scènes 3, 4 et 5)
Monday, November 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Composed between 1998 and 2003, Sonntag aus Licht is the last completed opera in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s cycle Licht. Premiered posthumously in 2011, it celebrates the mystical union of Michael and Eve, and the banishment of Lucifer.

Symphonic Concert
Gustav Mahler / Symphonie des « Mille »
24 & November 25, 2023

This legendary score, famously dubbed ‘of a Thousand’ by an impresario, threw symphonic norms to the wind. Mahler conceived it as an ode to the creative spark, the genius of humanity and the immensity of the universe.

Vocal Concert
Bach / Temps et éternité
Monday, November 27, 2023 at 8:00 pm

After their Christus ‘sacred trilogy’ concerts in the spring 2022, featuring Bach’s music dedicated to the figure of Jesus, Pygmalion returns under the direction of Raphaël Pichon with a programme of Bach cantatas.

Recital
Juan Diego Flórez
Monday, December 4, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Vocal Concert
André Campra / Requiem
Monday, December 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm

With André Campra’s monumental Requiem, composed shortly after the composer’s arrival in Paris in 1694, Les Arts Florissants continues its inspired mission to reveal the masterpieces of France’s ‘Grand Siècle’. 

Vocal Concert
Felix Mendelssohn / Elias
Friday, December 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Seven years after their triumphant performance of this opus at the Philharmonie de Paris, Raphaël Pichon and his Ensemble Pygmalion return to Mendelssohn’s Elias oratorio, a romantic hallmark of the genre.

 

Participatory Concert
Georg Friedrich Haendel / Le Messie
Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 8:00 pm

In his Messiah, the vast fresco he composed in 1741, Handel deploys every nuance of his consummate art of musical painting.

Vocal Concert
Messe de minuit
Sunday, December 17, 2023 at 4:00 pm

After their critically acclaimed recording of the Charpentier’s Pastorale de Noël, Sébastien Daucé and Ensemble Correspondances return to it this evening, on the heels of the composer’s Midnight Mass.

Music Lesson
Le Jardin des Voix / Les Arts Florissants
Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Paul Agnew explains characteristics of vocalism in Purcell’s work, drawing on excerpts from the composer’s opera The Fairy Queen, performed by the eight young winners of the Jardin des Voix vocal competition. 

Opera
Henry Purcell / The Fairy Queen
4 & January 6, 2024

In 1988, Les Arts Florissants presented one of the jewels of the English Baroque, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen. Nearly thirty-five years later, they revisit this enchanting work in the company of choreographer Mourad Merzouki.

Recital
Roses dans la nuit
Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Bertrand Chamayou accompanies Danish-French singer Elsa Dreisig in this programme dedicated to female composition, produced with the support of Elles - women composers, a project born in 2020 to revive forgotten or little-known works by women.

Recital
Maître Fauré
Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Hailed for his ‘Complete Songs of Fauré’ recorded with pianist Tristan Raës, Cyrille Dubois has established himself as a masterly interpreter of French melody and, through his students, perpetuates the legacy of the tutelary French composer.

Concert Opera
Bernd Alois Zimmermann / Les Soldats
Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Zimmermann’s great opera Die Soldaten was premiered in Cologne in 1965 by Michael Gielen. A work rarely performed in France, it is conducted here by François-Xavier Roth at the head of the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. 

Vocal Concert
Requiem allemand
Friday, February 2, 2024 at 8:00 pm

From his original Bach-centred repertoire, in which he is a pioneer, Philippe Herreweghe has long since broadened his horizons to include the romantic century—while continuing to deepen his great affection for the voice.

 

Vocal Concert
Les Sept Dernières Paroles du Christ
Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Language and vocality have always guided William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, even in their exploration of instrumental repertoires. The divine word is their inspiration for this sacred programme of gems from the classical era.

Concert Opera
Claudio Monteverdi / Orfeo
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Monteverdi’s Orfeo is often called the first of all operas. René Jacobs, with the Freiburger Barockorchester, offers a mordacious rendition of this early baroque masterpiece, restoring its full brilliance and sensuality.

Vocal Concert
Airs italiens
Monday, February 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Two high-pitched voices trained in the British school take on an Italian baroque repertoire studded with vocal acrobatics—not a ‘battle of the countertenors’ but rather a collegial collaboration, under the aegis of a conductor with a special fondness for their art.

Opera
Maurice Ravel / L’Enfant et les sortilèges
from 9 to March 12, 2024

Students of the Paris Conservatory perform a pocket version of Maurice Ravel’s L'Enfant et les Sortilèges created by Didier Puntos more than thirty years ago, during his time at the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Lyon.

Concert Opera
Georges Bizet / Carmen
Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Gaëlle Arquez in the title role, Julien Behr as Don José, Sabine Devieilhe as Micaëla: France’s finest singers come together in an exceptional Carmen, whose original colours René Jacobs seeks to bring out.

Vocal Concert
Bach / Savall
Monday, March 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Jordi Savall always returns to Bach, a beacon in the vast array of repertoires and cultures he has explored over the past six decades. Following his reconstruction of the St Mark Passion in 2019, he delves into the oratorio inspired by the Gospel of John.

Symphonic Concert
Fauré / Requiem
Friday, April 5, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Chamber Music
Rising Stars / Axelle Fanyo et Kunal Lahiry
Monday, April 15, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Symphonic Concert
Beethoven / Missa Solemnis
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The Missa Solemnis in a nutshell? ‘A monumental work in which Beethoven deals with most of his favourite subjects: universality and beliefs, but also doubts and the suffering caused by these doubts,’ says Jérémie Rohrer.

Symphonic Concert
Messe en ut
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The Orchestre National d'Île-de-France and the Chœur de Radio France in one of Mozart’s masterpieces, the Mass in C, with a quartet of high-flying soloists.

 

Vocal Concert
Joseph Haydn / Les Saisons
Monday, May 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Jordi Savall celebrates his reunion with Haydn, offering a final oratorio rich in colour.

Opera
Ludwig van Beethoven / Fidelio
Friday, May 31, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Vocal Concert
Airs sérieux et à boire
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 8:00 pm

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Chamber Music
Schubertiades / Autour de Maria João Pires
Friday, September 15, 2023 at 8:00 pm

This special Schubertiades weekend with the great Maria João Pires begins with two of the Austrian composer’s major works, the heartbreaking ‘Death and the Maiden’ Quartet, and his last piano sonata with its inimitable poetic aura.

 

Chamber Music
Schubertiades / Autour de Maria João Pires
Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 4:00 pm

During his lifetime, Schubert was primarily known for his immortal Lieder, some of which Liszt brilliantly transcribed for the piano. Maria João Pires and Antonio Meneses bring out the charm of another of his beloved scores, the delightful ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata.

Chamber Music
Schubertiades / Autour de Maria João Pires
Saturday, September 16, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Ever a torchbearer, Maria João Pires once again lights the way in this third edition of our Schubertiades, featuring two of the composer’s masterworks, his famed Fantasia for piano four hands and his deeply moving Trio No. 2.

Chamber Music
Schubertiades / Autour de Maria João Pires
Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 4:00 pm

While the Lebensstürme gives us the feverish Schubert, the ‘Trout’ Quintet is a score of cloudless beauty. It embodies the spirit of the Schubertiade, a joyous gathering of seasoned chamber musicians led by brilliant pianist Maria João Pires.

Recital
Anna Netrebko
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm

With this recital, prima donna Anna Netrebko offers a rare departure from the lyrical and Italian repertoire that predominates in her career and discography, here reuniting with melody and her mother tongue for an inside glimpse into the Russian soul.

Piano Recital
Martha Argerich / Stephen Kovacevich
Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Martha Argerich and Stephen Kovacevich have formed a legendary duo for many years. On stage, their presence radiates, their shared sensibilities shine, and their generosity comforts—particularly in this programme with symphonic origins.

 

Piano Recital
Maurizio Pollini
Monday, October 16, 2023 at 8:00 pm

More than sixty years of performing have not diminished Pollini’s love for his instrument. The Italian pianist says his recitals, which he aims to keep giving until his final breath, are rare moments of musical communion.

Chamber Music
Silvestrov / Dvořák
Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 11:00 am

The musicians of the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France pay tribute to Ukraine with music by one of the country’s greatest living composers, Valentin Silvestrov, forced into exile by the advance of Russian forces.

 

Piano Recital
Ivo Pogorelich
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 8:00 pm

After a lengthy hiatus, pianist Ivo Pogorelich has returned to the stage in recent years. His Chopin resounds like no other, borne by a deeply engaged and remarkably personal interpretation.

Chamber Music
Soirée Schumann
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Three Schumann scores all composed in 1842, his ‘year of chamber music’: his String Quartet No. 1 op. 41 and twin pieces with piano, Quartet op. 47 and Quintet op. 44.

Piano Recital
Alexandre Kantorow
Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Since his triumph at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Competition in 2019, Alexander Kantorow has been winning the highest awards. Behind his dreamy air lies a fearless virtuoso, as demonstrated in this programme of exceeding difficulty.

Piano Recital
Wilhem Latchoumia
Saturday, November 11, 2023 at 6:00 pm

Wilhem Latchoumia offers a dialogue between some of the great Brazilian composer Villa-Lobos’ most emblematic works, Manuel de Fallas’ irresistible Amour sorcier, and the delicate Scènes d’enfants by Catalan composer Mompou.

Recital
François Lazarevitch
Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 8:00 pm

François Lazarevitch, a flutist like Frederick the Great, shares his fascination with the Prussian king’s musical soirées at Sanssouci Palace.

Recital
Florentin Ginot
Friday, November 24, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Transcending genres and disciplines, Florentin Ginot approaches the double bass as an adventure, a vehicle for discovery. Here, he explores masterpieces by Bach and Biber, weaving surprising improvisations into his inspired conversation with them.

Recital
Thomas Dunford
Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 11:00 am

Lutist and theorbist Thomas Dunford—whose arrival on the music scene a decade ago instantly won over audiences and critics alike—returns to the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Concert
Intégrale Bach à l’orgue
Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 10:00 am
Piano Recital
Víkingur Ólafsson
Monday, November 27, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Víkingur Ólafsson’s affinity for Bach is no secret, a passion he has explored in multiple records. In what is sure to be a show of dizzying brio, he now tackles the pinnacle of the keyboard canon, the Goldberg Variations.

Piano Recital
Bruce Liu
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Propelled into the international limelight at age twenty-four when he won the Warsaw Chopin Competition 2021, Bruce Liu embraces a wide-ranging repertoire—from Bach to Prokofiev, Kapustin, and of course Chopin.

Chamber Music
Gautier Capuçon / Kim Bernard
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Gautier Capuçon and his young colleague Kim Bernard invite us on a musical journey to the Far North of Grieg, setting out from France.

Piano Recital
Bertrand Chamayou
Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 8:00 pm

In an eclectic recital bringing together his favourite composers, pianist Bertrand Chamayou offers himself the luxury of performing the two works long considered the most difficult in the piano repertoire – ‘Scarbo’ and Islamey.

Chamber Music
Kronos Quartet / 50
Friday, January 12, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Founded in Seattle by violinist David Harrington, Kronos Quartet gave its first concert in November 1973—making 2023 its 50th anniversary year. The seminal chamber ensemble is the guest of honour of the Philharmonie de Paris’ Eleventh String Quartet Biennial.

Chamber Music
Kronos Quartet
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Taking pride of place at the first weekend of the String Quartet Biennial, Kronos Quartet, celebrating its 50th anniversary, offers a small anthology of its repertoire along with a selection of the pieces it has commissioned.

Chamber Music
Kronos Quartet / Marathon « 50 for the Future » (1)
Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 2:30 pm

Kronos Quartet celebrates its 50th anniversary with a major world tour and a monumental commissioning project, 50 for the Future, that has given rise to fifty new string quartet works.

Chamber Music
Kronos Quartet / Marathon « 50 for the Future » (2)
Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 2:30 pm

Kronos Quartet celebrates its 50th anniversary with a major world tour and a monumental commissioning project, 50 for the Future, that has given rise to fifty new string quartet works.

Chamber Music
Quatuor Casals
Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 4:00 pm

The renowned Cuarteto Casals celebrates its 25th anniversary with Bach’s Art of the Fugue—a score representing the apogee of the contrapuntal style, and one of the greatest exploits in instrumental music.

Chamber Music
Quatuor Confluence
Monday, January 15, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The young and already greatly promising Quatuor Confluence offers a mix of Mozart and Ravel, including the former’s Quartet ‘Dissonance’ with its striking introduction.

 

Chamber Music
Quatuor Béla
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A programme of works by four women, in each of whom Quatuor Béla celebrates a form of radicalism and a versatile spirit that defies categorization, with a new work by Francesca Verunelli as a bonus.

 

Chamber Music
Quatuor Diotima
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 6:30 pm
Chamber Music
Quatuor Borodine
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The legendary Borodin Quartet in its core repertoire, the oeuvres of Tchaikovsky and especially Shostakovich, for whom the string quartet represented a medium of true self-expression despite the political tyranny of the Soviet Union.

Chamber Music
Quatuor Tana
Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 6:30 pm

A passionate ambassador for the composers of our time, always in search of new sounds, Quatuor Tana has forged a unique path through the ocean of contemporary music creation—as this American programme attests, with a special nod to minimal music.

 

Chamber Music
Quatuor Belcea
Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Quatuor Belcea pays tribute to two titans in the string quartet genre, Beethoven and Bartók, with opuses revealing intriguing links between them.

Chamber Music
Quatuor Leonkoro
Friday, January 19, 2024 at 6:30 pm

A rising star in the string quartet universe, Quatuor Leonkoro, not yet five years old, has already carved out a distinguished place for itself in today’s musical landscape.

Chamber Music
Quatuor Modigliani
Friday, January 19, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The 20-year-old Quatuor Modigliani is indubitably one of Europe’s leading quartets. This concert is an opportunity to appreciate its excellence in works by composers not yet featured among its recordings. 

Chamber Music
Quatuor Jérusalem
Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm

With Smetana and Shostakovich in counterpoint to Brahms, the Jerusalem Quartet performs scores that have earned it its reputation as an eminent ensemble, balancing individual expression and adherence to the composer’s intentions.

Chamber Music
Quatuor Hagen
Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm

The Hagen Quartet, one of the greatest quartets to emerge during the 1980s, offers a dialogue between affirmed expressions of the genre by Haydn and Beethoven, and the equivocal harmonies and rhythmic subtleties of Debussy’s single Quartet.

Chamber Music
Concert de clôture
Sunday, January 21, 2024 at 7:00 pm

After their respective ‘solo’ concerts, the Modigliani and Leonkoro quartets join forces to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet, a masterpiece and exploit by a still adolescent composer.

Chamber Music
Quatuor Strada - Simon Zaoui
Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Quatuor Strada reflects the passion for the chamber repertoire of its members—four internationally renowned soloists. Simon Zaoui joins them for the quintets with piano by Fauré, one of his composers of predilection.

Concert on period instruments
Fauré ou le dernier amour
Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 6:00 pm

Fauré’s love affair with Marguerite Hasselmans, his companion and muse for the last twenty-four years of his life, is the inspiration behind this intimate conversation between music and words by pianist Aline Piboule and writer Pascal Quignard.

Piano Recital
Elisabeth Leonskaja
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The noble, ardent and expressive playing of piano maestra Elisabeth Leonskaja exalts the towering peaks of Beethoven’s last three sonatas—a testament as philosophical as it is musical, and which holds inexhaustible mysteries.

Chamber Music
Gautier Capuçon / Daniil Trifonov
Saturday, February 10, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A summit meeting between two stars in the international scene: Gautier Capuçon, the protean ambassador of French cello, and Daniil Trifonov, one of the most renowned Russian pianists of his generation, present a triptych of 20th-century sonatas.

Piano Recital
Beatrice Rana
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm

A child prodigy and winner of the Montreal International Music Competition at age eighteen, the Italian pianist, now in her thirties, is welcomed as a queen wherever piano is king, enchanting audiences with her fiery temperament and elegant playing.

Piano Recital
Piotr Anderszewski
Monday, February 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Piotr Anderszewski has long made Bach a part of his daily sustenance. But he has not forgotten his roots: in counterpoint to Chopin’s miraculous Mazurkas—a glimpse into the composer’s inner world—he offers Szymanowski’s miniatures.

Piano Recital
Sir András Schiff
Friday, March 1, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Chamber Music
Renaud Capuçon / Alexandre Kantorow
Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Renaud Capuçon and Alexandre Kantorow take on early sonatas for violin and piano by three major composers: the finesse of Fauré, the spirit of Beethoven and the brilliance of Strauss blend together in a harmonious panorama of the genre. 

  

Chamber Music
Variations romantiques
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Two female composers, one German and one French, who were acclaimed during their lifetime and then unjustly forgotten. Like those of so many other women artists, their works are finally being rediscovered, including these two quartets for piano and strings.

 

Chamber Music
Rising Stars / Sean Shibe
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Chamber Music
Rising Stars / Júlia Pusker
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Chamber Music
Rising Stars / Sebastian Heindl
Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Chamber Music
Lettre à Herbert Blomstedt
Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Swedish music naturally takes centre stage in this admiring ‘letter’ from the musicians of the Orchestre de Paris to Herbert Blomstedt, the illustrious senior figure among conductors today, and an incomparable master of sound.

Piano Recital
Alexandre Tharaud
Monday, May 13, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Just as some speak the language of Molière to perfection, pianist Alexandre Tharaud delights in that of French composers, to whom he diligently returns since first falling in love with Rameau some twenty years ago.

Piano Recital
Hélène Grimaud
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Hélène Grimaud has long since established herself as one of the most singular and engaging personalities in the piano world today. The depth and intricacy of her playing are perfectly suited to this feverish and monumental Germanic programme.

Chamber Music
Klaus Mäkelä / Christiane Karg
Friday, May 17, 2024 at 8:00 pm

From Schubert’s beloved forest landscape to the river currents that become Ophelia’s watery grave, this programme dedicated to Schubert and Brahms draws us into the depths of the romantic wilds.

Piano Recital
Arcadi Volodos
Thursday, May 23, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Acclaimed for his uncommon mastery of the piano and his surprisingly varied palette of sonorities, Arcadi Volodos is an artist who seeks truth. Beneath his fingers, Schubert and Brahms appear in all their purity.  

Chamber Music
Bohême
Monday, May 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm

The term ‘bohemian’ often bears little relation to geographical Bohemia, and yet the two are not so far apart in spirit, and the vibrant culture of this Central European region continues to be a major source of inspiration for all manner of artists.

Chamber Music
Sheku et Isata Kanneh-Mason
Monday, May 27, 2024 at 8:00 pm

While there is an element of fairy tale to cellist prodigy Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s meteoric rise to international stardom, his talent is unquestionably real, hailed by Simon Rattle and confirmed by each new album. Here, he shines in a duo with his pianist sister. 

Chamber Music
Musique de film
Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 6:00 pm

Film, a popular art that some predicted would replace opera, is also a musical art.  Drawing on classical tradition and jazz, spanning Europe and the United States, this programme showcases the seductive charm of film music.

Piano Recital
Contes fantastiques
Monday, June 3, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Chamber Music
Belle époque
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Piano Recital
Yuja Wang
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Yuja Wang, a piano phenomenon of which there are few in a generation, never ceases to amaze with her immense stage presence, indomitable technique, clear and lightning-fast playing, and her ability to assimilate the most diverse repertoires.

Concert on period instruments
Salon Robert et Clara Schumann
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 8:00 pm

With the help of Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan, Trio Dichter (formed by Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Hanna Salzenstein and Fiona Mato) recreates the music played in the Schumann's parlour.

Concert on period instruments
Lucile Boulanger
Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 6:00 pm

Covid-19 may have kept Lucile Boulanger from running in her programme in public, but her long-dreamed-of project is none the less for its time out of the limelight. The dialogue between Bach and Abel recorded for Alpha has earned her a flurry of awards. She now performs it live.

Concert on period instruments
Salon Poulenc
Friday, March 22, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Hailed as one of the most original performers of his generation, French pianist Nathanaël Gouin plays with song-inspired virtuosity and versatility—as showcased here in a programme designed for the Gaveau 1929 piano preserved at the Musée de la musique.

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Théâtre nô et kyōgen
22 & September 25, 2023

Against the simple backdrop of the bare Noh stage, 15th century farce and tragedy unfold in turn, like the two facets of life. A comical fiasco between a man and his father-in-law is followed by the poetic dance of a mother grieving the loss of her child.

Show for kids
Tsuchigumo
Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 2:30 pm

A hero with a magic sword battles a giant spider, launching a pursuit of the beast by valiant warriors: this is the grandiose cast of characters of this ‘demonic’ Noh piece, one of the most spectacular in the repertoire, inspired by an 8th century legend.

Concert on period instruments
Salon koto
Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm

These serene and intimate 18th-century vocal suites interweave the koto’s elegant recitatives with poems from ancient imperial anthologies. They are performed on one of the jewels of the Musée de la musique collections, a koto dating back to 1780.

Concert
Caetano Veloso
Saturday, September 23, 2023 at 8:00 pm
Show
Théâtre nô et kyōgen
23 & September 26, 2023

In a ploy to get sake from his master, a servant disguises himself a demon. This joyous kyogen masquerade is followed by the poignant farewell dance of the beautiful Shizuka and a hero’s legendary fight with a spectre rising from the raging waves.

Show
Théâtre nô et kyōgen
Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 4:00 pm

Between tears of joy and sorrow, the blind man seeking a miracle in Kawakami embodies the joyful wisdom of life in song. The next Noh piece Shigehira follows the ghost of a warrior guilty of destroying a statue of Buddha. Will he find salvation?

 

Concert
Nuit du Raga
Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 6:00 pm

A whole evening dedicated to ragas with seven hours of concerts showcasing the most creative forms in the genre today, with a multi-generational lineup of artists at the forefront of the classical Indian music scene.

 

Concert
Gilberto Gil
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 8:00 pm

A pioneering musician, compared to Lennon for the power of his song-writing and his political activism, Gilberto Gil is a legend. Each of his concerts is an event of rare intensity. 

Concert
Dhafer Youssef
Friday, December 1, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Tunisian composer, singer and oud master Dhafer Youssef has taken his instrument out of its traditional ambit and into the realm of jazz. His work has brought him to the forefront of a movement linking East and West.

Concert
Mariza
Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Fado, the Portuguese music style popularized by Amália Rodrigues in the 20th century, is brilliantly perpetuated today by Mariza. Her regal voice offers a modern and multicultural incarnation that resonates with particular vibrance on stage.

Concert
Angélique Kidjo / Yo-Yo Ma
Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 6:00 pm

The meeting of two musicians of the highest calibre, one associated with the classical music world, the other with a range of genres, from world music to jazz. Both are artists of rare curiosity and inspiration: Yo-Yo Ma and Angelique Kidjo.

Concert
Sami Yusuf / When Paths Meet
Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Singer and composer Sami Yusuf, fervent apostle of universalism, presents When Paths Meet, an ambitious concert created especially for the Philharmonie de Paris, at the intersection of various musical and sacred traditions.

Concert
Anoushka Shankar
3 & April 4, 2024

Sitarist Anoushka Shankar perpetuates her father’s legacy while cultivating her own creativity and interest in other genres (flamenco, jazz, electro and Western classical music).

Concert
Nuit Flamenca
Friday, May 3, 2024 at 8:00 pm

In an array of registers—Andalusian with Rafael Riqueni, classical and choreographed with José María Gallardo del Rey and Ana Murales, and pure gypsy tradition with Tomatito—three great flamenco guitarists come together in counterpoint, for a fiery concert.

Concert
Live cinéma
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Live-mixing footage from all over France, seasoned travel documentarian Vincent Moon offers an immense-format film screening, accompanied by activists from France’s experimental (post-) traditional music scene.

Participatory Concert
Le grand bal
Sunday, May 5, 2024 at 4:00 pm

A participatory ball orchestrated by Vincent Moon, the globe-trotting filmmaker cultivating a vibrant form of ethnomusicology: against the backdrop of his footage of France, the audience dances to modern-day traditional music from various French regions.

Performance Concert
Tambours Taiko & Sabar
Saturday, May 25, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Performance Concert
Silat Gong
Saturday, June 8, 2024 at 7:00 pm

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Elvis Costello / Steve Nieve
Sunday, September 24, 2023 at 8:00 pm

British pop icon Elvis Costello, who boasts a vast and highly eclectic discography, delivers a recital in duo with pianist Steve Nieve, his closest collaborator. A rare moment not to be missed!

Vocal Concert
Birds on a Wire / Le Chant des oiseaux
Saturday, September 30, 2023 at 8:00 pm

The duet formed by Rosemary Standley and Dom La Nena celebrates its tenth anniversary with a mix of their signature songs and new covers, some of which they perform here with a girls’ choir.

Concert
Nuit chamanique
Friday, October 6, 2023 at 9:00 pm

Intrepid percussionist Lucie Antunes orchestrates a night of transcendence and unpredictable (psyche)delicacies, with a line-up including Léonie Pernet, P.R2B, Franky Gogo, Vincent Segal and Piers Faccini joining in the adventure.  

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Rufus Wainwright
Monday, October 9, 2023 at 8:00 pm

For his three-concert series, Rufus Wainwright presents songs from his pop albums organised into three broad categories. Act I is devoted to ‘Songs of Youth and Addiction’. 

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Rufus Wainwright
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 8:00 pm

For his three-concert series, Rufus Wainwright presents songs from his pop albums organised into three broad categories. Act II is devoted to ‘Songs of Love and Desire’. 

  

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Rufus Wainwright
Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 8:00 pm

For his three-concert series, Rufus Wainwright presents songs from his pop albums organised into three broad categories. Act III is dedicated to ‘Songs of Disdain and Resistance’.  

Family Concert
Une petite histoire jazz du rugby
Sunday, October 15, 2023 at 11:00 am

This illustrated concert, the brainchild of the ever imaginative cartoonist and illustrator Jacques Azam, invites the musicians to improvise—for an exhilarating tribute to rugby through a fantastical tale tinged with the absurd. 

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Simplement Sheller
17 & October 18, 2023

With his clever blend of song, orchestral pop and classical composition, William Sheller has been a beacon and inspiration for several generations of artists. The French scene celebrates his singular oeuvre with this tribute concert in his honour.

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Émilie Simon
Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Alone on stage, Émilie Simon, a French artist at the forefront in electro-pop and film music, celebrates her first album, a critically acclaimed release in 2003, presented here in all-new arrangements for its twentieth anniversary.

 

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Rodrigo y Gabriela
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 8:00 pm

For twenty years, these Mexican guitar virtuosos have been delivering a rare fusion of flamenco, jazz and folk while fanning the flames of their love for heavy metal, enthusing music scenes around the world with their incessant artistic ebullition.

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Masada & Beyond
Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Oscillating between contemporary jazz, metal and noise, the second evening organised for John Zorn’s 70th birthday brings together three key ensembles from his musical universe: two quartets, Heaven and Earth Magick and the New Masada Quartet, and a trio, Simulacrum.

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Jeanne Added
Friday, November 3, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Singer-songwriter Jeanne Added, who in the span of a few years has become a leading figure in the French pop scene, returns with her new band to present her third album, By Your Side

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Dhafer Youssef
Friday, December 1, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Tunisian composer, singer and oud master Dhafer Youssef has taken his instrument out of its traditional ambit and into the realm of jazz. His work has brought him to the forefront of a movement linking East and West.

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Sami Yusuf / When Paths Meet
Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Singer and composer Sami Yusuf, fervent apostle of universalism, presents When Paths Meet, an ambitious concert created especially for the Philharmonie de Paris, at the intersection of various musical and sacred traditions.

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Youssoupha / Gospel symphonique expérience
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 8:00 pm

Illustrious French rapper Youssoupha shares a more sophisticated side of his work with the inspired rereading of Noir D****, an album created as a tribute to Black people, adapting it on stage in an explosive mix of rap, gospel and symphonic music.

 

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Avishai Cohen & Makoto Ozone
3 & February 4, 2024

In an artistic collaboration born under the double sign of friendship and peace, the Israeli double bass player and the Japanese pianist unite their talents in perfect symbiosis, for a project as rooted in jazz as it is in classical music.

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Bertrand Belin
6 & February 7, 2024

Bertrand Belin, a major figure in French music today, with his undeniably heady, deep, slow voice, forges his own unique path between song, folk and pop. His latest album, Tambour Vision, forms the core of this concert.

 

Concert
Le droit de chanter
Friday, February 16, 2024 at 8:00 pm

To inaugurate this weekend, the Philharmonie de Paris and Oxmo Puccino showcase those who will make the world of tomorrow through a programme of up-and-coming artists.

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Bâtiment B
Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 8:00 pm
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Oxmo Puccino
Sunday, February 18, 2024 at 8:00 pm

After a four-year hiatus, Oxmo Puccino celebrates his return to the stage with a brand-new concert.

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Nils Frahm
20 & March 21, 2024
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Jason Moran plays Duke Ellington
5 & April 6, 2024

One can be both fan and virtuoso: American pianist Jason Moran is used to paying tribute to jazz masters. Here, he revisits one of the genre’s most beautiful repertoires, honouring one of its greatest legends of all times: Duke Ellington.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant
Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Performing with the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, Cécile McLorin Salvant—one of the supreme voices in jazz today—offers an exclusive concert featuring orchestral versions of her compositions along with a symphonic work.

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Jeanne Added
Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 7:00 pm

Acclaimed French singer-songwriter Jeanne Added pays tribute to one of her great idols and artistic inspirations, Canadian singer Joni Mitchell, presenting a selection of her songs subtly re-arranged for the occasion.

 

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Behemoth
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Veterans of the European metal scene, the members of the Polish group Behemoth have succeeded over the decades in combining powerful sound and rich melody, all in a visually impressive show. More than a safe bet in the genre, they are a must-see band.

Concert
Hellfest Warm-up Tour
Thursday, May 2, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Concert
Protest Songs
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 at 8:00 pm

Together, Jeanne Added, Camélia Jordana, L (Raphaële Lannadère) & Sandra Nkaké have created an a cappella repertoire of protest songs, from Joan Baez to Aimé Césaire, honouring these noble voices that fight oppression with their vibrant and resonant renditions.

Children and families

Children and families

Numerous concerts and shows throughout the year and during school holidays.

Philharmonie des enfants

An area dedicated to children aged 4 to 10: to play, explore, listen, live and feel the music.

Exhibition

Metal


From April 4 to September 29, 2024

Acoustic saturation, voices from beyond the grave, mythic instruments and apocalyptic images... For the first time in France, a major exhibition tells the story of the metal movement, a telluric interchange of music, popular culture, contemporary arts…
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Exhibition

Metal


From April 4 to September 29, 2024

Exhibition

Symfolia


From May 31 to September 8, 2024

Designed by artist Rachel Marks at the initiative of Inspired by KM, a non-profit organisation chaired by Kylian Mbappé, and the Philharmonie de Paris, Symfolia is a monumental tree made of recycled paper, created by nearly 20,000 children participating…
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Exhibition

Symfolia


From May 31 to September 8, 2024

Exhibition

Zidane

From October 5, 2023 to January 7, 2024

A Real Madrid soccer match filmed by 17 cameras all focused on the figure of Zidane, while also capturing the poetic sounds of the stadium. This installation by Philippe Parreno and Douglas Gordon opens the Olympic season of the Philharmonie de Paris.
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Exhibition

Zidane

From October 5, 2023 to January 7, 2024

Installation

En Amour

From February 9 to August 25, 2024

The Musée de la musique gives carte blanche to the duo Adrien M & Claire B. The installation En amour, a cross between live performance and digital art, invites the public to choreograph an intimate dance, accompanied by a new composition by Laurent Bardainne.

Installation

Anima (ex)musica

From September 15, 2023 to January 7, 2024

Created by the Tout reste à faire collective, a dozen giant insects composed entirely of pieces of disused musical instruments are placed along the visitors’ route through the Musée de la musique, in interesting resonance with the collection.

Festival

Days Off 2023

With Sigur Rós & LCO, Lous and the Yakuza, Sampa the Great, José González, Interpol, Ben Howard, Kevin Morby, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, Thylacine & l’Orchestre national d’Île-de-France, …
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Festival

Days Off 2023

Festival

Jazz à la Villette 2023

From August 30 to September 10

With De La Soul live band, Meshell Ndegeocello, GoGo Penguin, Oumou Sangaré, Mulatu Astatké, Ezra Collective, Anne Paceo, Samara Joy, Lee Fields, Lakecia Benjamin, … 
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Festival

Jazz à la Villette 2023

From August 30 to September 10

Musée de la musique
Musée de la musique

A museum where music is lived and experienced.

Programming
Workshops for kids and families

You wish to awaken the interest of your children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces in music… to give them the opportunity to discover activities  which are rich, varied and suitable for their age-group?

Programming
Workshops for adults

Workshops at the Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris aim to give everyone the opportunity to make music in a fun and friendly environment.

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Conferences & meetings

The Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris offers a variety of activities for music lovers of all kinds – from the simply curious to confirmed aficionados : pre-concert sessions, musical culture cycles, conferences, meetings, and roundtables

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