• Emmanuelle Durand and Vincent Anglade have been appointed to succeed Dominique Delorme at the head of the Nuits de Fourvière de Lyon.

  • The duo is already announcing changes even if it does not intend to upset the entire program.

  • For the first time, the festival will be open from 2014 to children and will descend from the hill to meet the inhabitants.

A page turns.

After 20 years at the helm of Nuits de Fourvière, Dominique Delorme has decided to hand over the reins.

The duo Emmanuelle Durand and Vincent Anglade has just been appointed to take the reins of the festival.

The first, general secretary at the Auditorium-Orchestre de Lyon, and the second, head of contemporary music at the Philharmonie de Paris and director of the Jazz à la Villette and Days off festivals, immediately announce the color: "to move the lines" and "open new paths".

But there is no question of turning everything upside down, of unraveling everything that has made the festival so famous.

“We want to preserve all the work done by Dominique Delorme”, assures Vincent Anglade.

In other words, the program “will remain multidisciplinary” and the concerts will still hold an important place.

"Bringing the festival down the hill"

Among the changes announced, the Nuits de Fourvière will display a “theme” each year in order to “create bridges between disciplines”, which will concern around ten shows.

The festival also wishes to welcome “new formats”, for example musicals and film-concert sessions.



For the first time, the organizers will offer from 2024 - the 2023 program having already been completed - the "festival of small nights" dedicated to children and the family.

The duo also aims to "bring the festival down from the hill" to "go and invest living spaces" and offer shows in the streets of the city, football stadiums, aquatic centers or even the planetarium of Vaulx- in-vellum.

Putting residents at the heart of the project

"We will be in a process of decompartmentalization", specifies Emmanuelle Durand.

The future "Nomadic Nights" will, as such, allow artists to go on "tour" throughout the year to meet the inhabitants, more particularly "those who do not come spontaneously to the Nuits de Fourvière ".

"The idea would thus be to make them want to discover more important shows afterwards", specifies the new co-director.

Finally, the “My nights” project aims for its part to ensure “that the inhabitants take ownership” of the festival, she explains again.

For example, it will be a question of proposing “projects over the year with young people from the territory”, or performances on stage with amateurs.

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