Opéra National de Lyon
The Opéra National de Lyon, marketed as Opéra de Lyon during the last decade, is an opera company in Lyon, based and performing mostly at the Opéra Nouvel, an 1831 theater that was modernized and architecturally transformed in 1993.

The inaugural performance of François-Adrien Boïeldieu's "La Dame blanche" was given on 1 July 1831. The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries saw some significant French premieres of major operas including Richard Wagner's "Die Meistersinger" in 1896, Giordano's "Andrea Chénier" in the following year, and Moussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" in 1913. In addition, many world premieres such as Arnold Schoenberg's "Erwartung" (1967) have been presented.

In the years after the 1969 appointment of Louis Erlo as general director, many innovative productions and premieres of both French operas and Twentieth Century operas have been staged. Two significant French artists who have been associated with the Opéra in recent years are the stage director, Laurent Pelly, and the soprano, Natalie Dessay.

Past principal conductors at the company have included André Cluytens, John Eliot Gardiner, Kent Nagano, Louis Langrée, Iván Fischer, and Kazushi Ono. Since the start of the 2017–2018 season, the company's current principal conductor ("chef permanent") of the company is Daniele Rustioni, whose appointment to the post was announced in March 2015. The current choirmaster of the company is Philip White, since 2015.

The company has an affiliated "corps de ballet", Lyon Opera Ballet. As well, the company has a children's choir, "La Maîtrise" (masterclass), was created in 1990 to form a top-level choir of young soloists. Since 1993, it has a status similar to other French musical schools.
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Opéra Nouvel
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Kent Nagano
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Louis Langrée
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Iván Fischer
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Kazushi Ono
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Daniele Rustioni
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Opéra National de Lyon
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