Casse-noisette - Ballet & Orchestre - Paris & Tournée 2025/2026

Casse-Noisette at L'Amphithéâtre 3000

We are delighted to welcome Ballet & Orchestre de Paris for Casse-Noisette as part of the ensemble’s Tournée 2025-2026, a festive highlight designed for audiences of every generation. Staged in the heart of Lyon at L'Amphithéâtre 3000, the production draws on the full scale of our 3,000-seat venue to create the kind of immersive evening this timeless ballet invites. From the moment you enter our Cité Internationale home, steps from the Parc de la Tête d’Or, the experience is tailored to comfort and clarity: generous sightlines, warm acoustics built to embrace a full symphonic palette, and a stage engineered for large-scale ballet. Casse-Noisette thrives on color, movement, and a sense of occasion, and our technical teams are preparing a setting in which the orchestra can bloom and the dancers can carve crystalline shapes. For families discovering the story for the first time—and for seasoned ballet-goers returning to a cherished ritual—our goal is the same: to offer an evening where the music, choreography, and stagecraft meet without compromise.

Ballet & Orchestre de Paris on tour: momentum and mastery

Tournée 2025-2026 marks a renewed chapter for Ballet & Orchestre de Paris, bringing the company’s signature blend of classical rigor and theatrical flair to stages across France and beyond. At L'Amphithéâtre 3000, their Casse-Noisette places the score at the center, with the orchestra illuminating every corner of P. I. Tchaikovsky’s writing—from the delicacy of celesta-tinged solos to sweeping string canvases and luminous woodwinds. The ensemble’s approach balances narrative clarity with technical brilliance: character-driven pantomime is honed with precision, ensemble patterns read cleanly from every row, and the grand tableaux breathe with the natural ebb of live music. The company’s touring momentum is evident in its refined tempi, unhurried phrasing, and an attention to dynamic contrast that restores the ballet’s symphonic silhouette. This is not simply a seasonal staple; it is a living, breathing work entrusted to artists who prize musical conversation as much as physical line, inviting our audience to listen with their eyes as well as their ears.

In our hall, the architecture and production values collaborate to reveal the ballet’s narrative arc: the bustle of a winter gathering, the flicker of candles and gifts, the charge of the battle scene, and the hushed wonder of snow. Our fly system and lighting grid allow the décor to transform fluidly, whether for grand, storybook vistas or intimate pas de deux framed by a single, focused pool of light. The stage depth accommodates generous corps de ballet configurations, so patterns remain legible across the full width of L'Amphithéâtre 3000. We have designed the audience flow to be smooth before curtain and at the interval, with clear signage and attentive staff to guide your visit. For many, Casse-Noisette marks a treasured annual outing; for others, it is a first encounter with ballet. In either case, we are committed to an atmosphere that heightens anticipation, sustains concentration, and lets the final notes ring freely into a shared silence before applause blooms—an experience made for Lyon, in Lyon, on the scale it deserves.