The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Victor Hugo and Justice
Place de la Comédie
Lyon 1er
Meeting organized with the Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse and the Lyon Opera as part of the cycle "Les causes communes. Justice/Injustice"
Robert Badinter, who has fought tirelessly against barbarism and injustice, has adapted Victor Hugo’s short novel Claude Gueux, turning it into a libretto, Claude. To celebrate the creation of this opera, in the scope of the Justice/Injustice festival, Robert Badinter will give a conference at the Lyon Opera.
At the end of the meeting:
Robert Badinter will award the Human Rights Prize and the Abd El Kader Prize. In collaboration with the Lyon Chair of Human Rights and the Hospitalité d’Abraham association.
LEARN MORE ABOUT - "Justice/ Injustice"
In ten editions, the festival has become the must-see event of the season at the Lyon Opera. Running from March 27 to April 15, 2013, it is devoted to a theme that has always been central to the human condition: justice and injustice, in three nights of opera. The first night will be the opening of Claude, a new opera by Thierry Escaich, directed by Jérémie Rhorer, and staged by Olivier Py. Robert Badinter wrote the libretto, based on Victor Hugo’s short novel and manifesto against the death penalty, Claude Gueux. On the second night of the festival, Kazushi Ono, the Lyon Opera’s permanent conductor, will direct Beethoven’s Fidelio, staged and filmed by the visual artist and videast Gary Hill. More than an opera, Fidelio is a magnificent demonstration of the power of love over injustice. The festival’s third night brings together Le Prisonnier by Dallapiccola and Erwartung by Schoenberg: two short operas on expectation and wandering, both directed by Kazushi Ono and staged by those magicians of the unconscious, Alex Ollé and La Fura dels Baus. Free with a reservation.
Free entry on reservation
