Cyrano De Bergerac - Edouard Baer

Cyrano de Bergerac with Edouard Baer at Radiant-Bellevue

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are delighted to welcome Cyrano de Bergerac, carried by the magnetic presence of Edouard Baer. Our stage is built for language, rhythm, and emotion, and few plays reward that commitment like Edmond Rostand’s incandescent drama of wit, bravery, and love. In our hall, where the contours of voice and gesture are carefully honored, the music of the verse and the pulse of the duel come alive for every seat. We take pride in creating the conditions for an encounter between audience and artist that feels both intimate and grand: the murmured secret, the panache-filled tirade, the laughter that ripples, the silence that expands. As a venue rooted in the Lyon metropolis, we relish hosting a classic that still thrills with modern urgency, and we look forward to seeing Edouard Baer infuse Cyrano’s audacity and tenderness with his inimitable style, right here under our lights.

Edouard Baer, today

Welcoming Edouard Baer is to embrace a certain art of presence: a way of speaking that turns every sentence into an adventure, a comic impulse that remains elegant even when it surprises. His recent stage journey with Les élucubrations d’un homme soudain frappé par la grâce has reminded audiences of his rare ability to converse with a room as though it were a single confidant. On screen, his appearances in Daaaaaali! and Adieu Paris have reinforced his standing as a creator who moves fluidly between comedy, melancholy, and poetic strangeness. And for those who followed him on air in Plus Près de Toi, the taste for live exchange and improvisation is a familiar joy—one that fuels the freedom we cherish on our stage. For us at Radiant-Bellevue, hosting his Cyrano de Bergerac means hosting a living conversation with the classics, conducted by an actor whose timing, charm, and linguistic finesse make every minute of theatre feel freshly minted.

What can audiences expect from Cyrano de Bergerac at Radiant-Bellevue? A celebration of language that glitters like steel, and a tenderness that lingers long after the final bow. Cyrano’s bravura and vulnerability, Roxane’s intelligence and grace, Christian’s idealism—these forces converge with an immediacy that our technical team amplifies with careful attention to acoustics, sightlines, and the kinetic tempo of scenes. We love to watch the play’s duels—of swords, yes, but above all of words—spill across our stage with the vitality of something happening now. Edouard Baer’s appetite for risk and nuance sharpens the text’s humor and pathos, making each letter, each balcony, each impossible confession feel as if it were written for this very room. Here, the classic becomes a rendezvous: our audience, our city, an actor at the height of his craft, and a timeless story that still finds new ways to stir courage and invite joy.