The Opéra-Comique on tour
2026-2027 Season

Meeting you on new stages: 109 performances on tour across France and Luxembourg. While Salle Favart is being modernised, the Opéra-Comique comes to meet you in 24 cities with 7 productions — major repertoire titles (Werther, Roméo et Juliette, Iphigénie en Tauride, Lucie de Lammermoor) and discoveries (La Valse rêvée d'Offenbach, La Fille de Madame Angot, La Fabuleuse Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique).

With the support of Fondation Engie.

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109 performances on tour

7 Opéra-Comique productions

24 cities in France and Luxembourg

From October 2026 to June 2027

The 7 productions on tour

Werther

Jules Massenet — 2026 Production · Director: Ted Huffman

  • Opéra de Rennes | 3-11 October 2026
  • Théâtre de Caen | 26-28 November 2026
  • Angers-Nantes Opéra | 14-22 May 2027 in Nantes; 4 June 2027 in Angers

Werther

Jules Massenet

Werther is a young idealistic artist, sensitive and fervent in spirit. From the moment he arrives in Wetzlar, where he hopes to settle, he is dazzled by a vision of familial bliss, at the heart of which shines Charlotte. A shared love of poetry draws them together at once. Yet Charlotte has made a solemn vow to her dying mother to marry Albert...

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La Valse rêvée d'Offenbach

Based on music by Jacques Offenbach — 2026 Production · Director: Barthélémy Fortier

  • Opéra National du Rhin | 17 and 18 December 2026 in Colmar
  • Opéra National du Rhin | 7 January – 18 February 2027 in Strasbourg, Mulhouse and the Grand Est region

Offenbach’s dream waltz

Jacques Offenbach searched for the composer of a waltz his mother used to sing when he was a child. Inspired by this detail from the composer's life, the director Barthélémy Fortier and musical director Guillemette Daboval envision a miniature comic opera brought to life through excerpts from Offenbach's greatest operas. The artists of the Académie showcase their full theatrical and vocal talent in this performance.

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Roméo et Juliette

Charles Gounod — 2021 Production · Director: Éric Ruf

  • Opéra de Saint-Étienne | 30 April – 4 May 2027
  • Opéra de Tours | 9-15 June 2027

Roméo & Juliette

Pascal Dusapin

Tous les amoureux s'appellent Roméo et Juliette avant même de se connaître, ils sont Roméo et Juliette, ceux qui cherchent à travers le temps et le vaste monde.

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Iphigénie en Tauride

Christoph Willibald Gluck — 2025 Production · Director: Wajdi Mouawad

  • Les Théâtres du Luxembourg | 27 and 29 November 2026

The playlist for Tauride: storm, oath, deliverance

Ahead of our new production of Iphigénie en Tauride from 2 to 12 November 2025, directed by Wajdi Mouawad and conducted alternately by Louis Langrée and Théotime Langlois de Swarte, this playlist guides the ear from the opening storm to the final calm with Le Consort and the choir Les Éléments.

Prepare for your evening and extend it: listen to this playlist to discover the work and continue your encounter with the artists and the work when you come to see it.

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Lucie de Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti — 2026 Production · Director: Evgeny Titov

  • Opéra National du Rhin | 6-22 June 2027 in Strasbourg and Mulhouse

Lucie de Lammermoor

Gaetano Donizetti

In a destitute Scotland, torn by clan rivalries, Lucie must marry a Lord who would save her family’s name from disgrace. But a secret love unites her with Edgard, the last survivor of a rival lineage... What can a woman do when strength and violence reign supreme? 

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La Fille de Madame Angot

Charles Lecocq — 2023 Production · Director: Richard Brunel

  • Opéra National de Lyon | 14 December 2026 – 3 January 2027

La Fille de Madame Angot

Charles Lecocq

Richard Brunel unveils the eminently modern significance of this bubbling social panorama, which sketches the portrait of a combative youth enamoured with truth and freedom.

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La Fabuleuse Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique

Director: Léo Cohen-Paperman | Libretto: Émilien Diard-Detœuf

A show created specifically for this itinerant season, retracing the history and singular genius of the Opéra-Comique.

Detailed calendar below.

The Opéra-Comique's Fabulous History

Léo Cohen-Paperman, Émilien Diard-Detœuf

Founded under Louis XIV as a travelling fairground company, the Opéra-Comique invented the emblematic genre of the Enlightenment before producing the nineteenth-century masterpieces of Bizet, Offenbach and Massenet. Léo Cohen-Paperman and Émilien Diard-Detœuf retrace this three-hundred-year theatrical saga in comedy and music. The artists of the Académie reveal the backstage of creation and play with our collective memory, from Dauvergne to French popular song. A festive, popular show that revives the fairground spirit and its complicity with the audience.

A tour across the regions between January and May 2027

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January 2027

  • TAP – Scène nationale de Grand Poitiers | 7 and 8 January 2027 at 8pm
  • Les 3T – Scène conventionnée de Châtellerault | 13 January at 8pm, 14 January 2027 at 10am and 8pm
  • Scène nationale d'Albi-Tarn | 18 and 19 January 2027 at 8pm
  • Théâtre Olympia, Arcachon | 22 January 2027 at 8pm
  • Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain, Bayonne | 26 and 27 January 2027 at 8pm
  • Théâtre de Gascogne, Mont-de-Marsan | 30 January 2027 at 8pm

February 2027

  • Théâtre Ducourneau, Agen | 3 February 2027 at 8pm
  • Théâtre des Quatre Saisons, Gradignan | 6 February 2027 at 7pm
  • L'Odyssée, scène conventionnée, Périgueux | 10 February 2027 at 8pm
  • Scène nationale Le Trident, Cherbourg | 18 February at 7:30pm and 19 February 2027 at 8:30pm
  • Théâtre municipal de Fontainebleau | 26 February 2027 at 7:30pm

March 2027

  • Les 2 Scènes, Scène nationale de Besançon | 3 March 2027 at 7pm
  • Théâtre Alexandre Dumas, Saint-Germain-en-Laye | 9 March 2027 at 8:30pm
  • Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne | 19 March 2027 at 8:30pm

May 2027

  • Opéra de Rennes | 21 May at 10:30am and 2:30pm, 22 May 2027 at 2:30pm and 6pm
  • La Passerelle – Saint-Brieuc | 25 May 2027 at 8pm

The 24 cities on tour

Greater Western France

Rennes (Werther and La Fabuleuse Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique) · Saint-Brieuc · Caen · Cherbourg · Nantes · Angers · Tours

Île-de-France

Saint-Germain-en-Laye · Fontainebleau · Compiègne

Nouvelle-Aquitaine & South-West

Poitiers · Châtellerault · Périgueux · Gradignan · Arcachon · Bayonne · Mont-de-Marsan · Agen · Albi

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Lyon (La Fille de Madame Angot) · Saint-Étienne (Roméo et Juliette)

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté & Grand Est

Besançon · Strasbourg · Mulhouse · Colmar

Outside France

Luxembourg (Iphigénie en Tauride)

A season hand in hand with the Opéra de Rennes

As part of the 2026-2027 season, the Opéra-Comique joins forces with the Opéra de Rennes to bring its repertoire to life in Brittany with several engagements:

  • Werther by Jules Massenet, directed by Ted Huffman
  • Pinocchio by Philippe Boesmans, directed by Ambre Kahan
  • La Fabuleuse Histoire de l'Opéra-Comique, a touring show that reconnects with the spirit of the Théâtres de la Foire

To embody this complicity even more, Louis Langrée will preside over the jury of the regional final of the Voix Nouvelles competition, organised by Génération Opéra in Rennes.

How to book?

For all tour performances, ticketing is managed by each partner venue. On each show's page you will find direct links to the local box offices.

Prices: set by each venue. Reduced rates (under-35s, jobseekers, RSA welfare recipients, etc.) are available according to the policy of each opera house.

For any questions: our box office team can help you identify the right contact — billetterie@opera-comique.com · +33 (0)1 70 23 01 31.

With the support of

Fondation Engie, main partner of the tour.

And thanks to the complicity of the partner opera houses and national theatres: Opéra de Rennes · Théâtre de Caen · Angers-Nantes Opéra · Opéra National du Rhin · Opéra National de Lyon · Opéra de Saint-Étienne · Opéra de Tours · Les Théâtres du Luxembourg · TAP Poitiers · Les 3T Châtellerault · Scène nationale d'Albi-Tarn · Théâtre Olympia (Arcachon) · Scène nationale du Sud-Aquitain (Bayonne) · Théâtre de Gascogne (Mont-de-Marsan) · Théâtre Ducourneau (Agen) · Théâtre des Quatre Saisons (Gradignan) · L'Odyssée (Périgueux) · Scène nationale Le Trident (Cherbourg) · Théâtre municipal de Fontainebleau · Les 2 Scènes (Besançon) · Théâtre Alexandre Dumas (Saint-Germain-en-Laye) · Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne · La Passerelle (Saint-Brieuc).