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From September 8th until September 13th, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Verklärte Nacht will be danced by the Lyon Opera Ballet, as part of a combined program, which also includes deepstarias bienvenu⸱e⸱s (( re: )) by Mercedes Dassy and WE NEED SILENCE by Katerina Andreou.

The Opéra de Lyon returns regularly to work by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. This year, the Opéra de Lyon takes on Verklärte Nacht,(Transfigured Night), a piece based on Schönberg’s late romantic music for strings and a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who, one moonlit night, confesses in a wood to the man she loves that she is pregnant with the child of another man. The poem’s scene resonates in the music’s persistent strings, at times heavily loaded with passion, at times subtle as a timid voice, seemingly in unison with its protagonist's ordeal.

The original choreography as a group piece was created in 1995 as a part of an Arnold Schönberg evening at the Brussels Opera House De Munt / La Monnaie.

For tickets and more information, visit https://www.opera-lyon.com/en/programme/saison-2025-2026/danse/transfigured-nights