• Saison 2024-2025
  • Opera
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  • Opera
  • Festival

7 Minuti

Lyon Opera Orchestra, Choir and Lyon Opera Studio soloists

  • Dates Mar 15 - Mar 29, 2025
  • Rates From 10€ to 90€
  • Location Opéra de Lyon
  • Running Time 2 hours 07 minutes – No intermission
  • Age 12 and up

In a few words

In the opera 7 Minutes by Giorgio Battistelli, presented at the Lyon Opera for the first time since it premiered in 2018, eleven factory workers must collectively come to a decision regarding their future, deploying their revolutionary impulses and power struggles behind closed doors.

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    Video
    7 minutes - Entretien

Introductory

Seven: the number of minutes by which these textile factory workers must agree to cut their daily fifteen-minute break. Drawing inspiration from the fight led by the employees of the last Lejaby factory in France, in Yssingeaux, Haute-Loire, Giorgio Battistelli’s opera offers a wise take on issues pertaining to job insecurity due to budget cuts. Up to which point is it acceptable to work? Up to which point must workers put their lives in jeopardy?
Pauline Bayle, known for her shows anchored in our current era, directed this socially-conscious opera, with modern, contemporary, and original music specialist Miguel Perez Iñesta as musical director for the vocal ensemble.
This opera about strong democratic issues is a lucid and powerful social chronicle of our time.

Language

Sung in Italian with French subtitles

Opera in 3 acts
Libretto written by the composer,
based on Stefano Massini’s play 7 Minuti
Premiered at the Opéra national de Lorraine in 2019

New production

This opera is part of the Lyon / Creative City UNESCO literature program

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Giuseppe Verdi
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