Zaho - La Tournée

Zaho de Sagazan brings La Tournée to Radiant-Bellevue

At Radiant-Bellevue, we are delighted to welcome Zaho de Sagazan with La Tournée, a live experience that has swiftly become one of the touchstones of the current French music season. From our vantage point as a venue dedicated to sound, presence, and connection, the momentum surrounding this artist is unmistakable: a powerful, singular voice, a cinematic sense of staging, and a repertoire that has captured audiences well beyond Francophone borders. In recent months, Zaho de Sagazan’s artistry has been distinguished by major accolades, including multiple honors at the Victoires de la Musique 2024, the kind of recognition that arrives only when studio craft and stagecraft meet with striking clarity. Her blend of intimate piano writing and cold-wave inflected electronics finds a natural resonance in our hall, where the contours of her songs—from the pulse of synths to the hush of a whispered confession—can breathe. Expect the dramatic breadth that made “La symphonie des éclairs” a calling card and the stark emotional precision of “Tristesse” to anchor a set that feels both immediate and carefully sculpted for live space.

What to expect on stage at Radiant-Bellevue

La Tournée has been built as a living organism—an evolving sequence of tableaux that privileges atmosphere and narrative flow over strict chronology—and our team is shaping the room to underscore that evolution. The show’s architecture alternates between magnetic stillness and surging release, with light as a partner to the music: stark monochromes, precise strobes, and velvety shadows that allow Zaho de Sagazan’s voice to emerge like a spotlight of its own. From an audio perspective, we are emphasizing the warmth of the lower register and the articulate snap of drum machines so that the transitions—from a solitary piano figure into a full electronic swell—feel inevitable rather than abrupt. Our audience can expect a generous setlist that pivots from crowd-unifying anthems to close-up confessionals; the recent touchstones “La symphonie des éclairs” and “Tristesse” land as emotional pillars, while arrangements throughout the evening expand and contract with theatrical finesse. The Radiant-Bellevue stage will be configured to keep sightlines clean, with a sound image that immerses without overwhelming—ideal for an artist whose music thrives on dynamics, silence, and the tension between them.

Artistically, Zaho de Sagazan arrives at Radiant-Bellevue in a period of exhilarating momentum: a debut body of work that has crossed into the cultural mainstream, a tour scaling up from intimate clubs to major theatres, and a creative practice that treats the live show as an extension of the studio, not a mere reproduction. That philosophy is palpable in La Tournée, where motifs are revoiced, lyrics gain new contours, and interludes connect songs into a single arc. Our programming team is particularly excited by the way these arrangements invite the audience into the heart of the performance; call-and-response refrains bloom organically, and extended codas allow her band to explore colors that the record only sketches. The result is a rare balance of precision and abandon—one that our acoustics and technical rigging are designed to honor. With Lyon’s discerning music lovers gathered at Radiant-Bellevue, we anticipate an evening that underscores why this artist’s current work resonates so widely: the immediacy of voice, the rigor of composition, and the thrill of witnessing songs like “La symphonie des éclairs” and “Tristesse” ignite in real time, in a room built to carry every word and every wave of sound.