What if opera came to you? That is the question at the heart of La Lune dans les yeux – Opéra and Co, the company founded by soprano Nadège Meden [À COMPLÉTER : année et ville de création].

Opera as a shared experience

After years on the stage, Nadège Meden wanted to break down the walls – literal and symbolic – that keep many people away from opera. The company performs in public spaces, close to the audience, so that singing becomes an encounter rather than a distant spectacle. Singers and musicians share the stage with dancers and circus artists, and each project is built for the place it inhabits.

A language for every body

Two personal practices shape the company’s identity. Nadège Meden practises sign language, and integrates it into performances as a fully embodied dramatic language – opening opera to deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences while giving hearing spectators a new way to read emotion. She also draws on her own experience of the tightrope, bringing the risk, balance and suspension of circus arts into the dramaturgy of the voice.

[À COMPLÉTER : une citation de Nadège sur la naissance du projet – par ex. pourquoi ce nom, « la lune dans les yeux ».]

The team

[À COMPLÉTER : membres fondateurs, partenaires, soutiens institutionnels.]

Founder and artistic director of the company, Nadège Meden continues her career as a spinto-dramatic soprano in parallel, and sees both paths as one and the same commitment: making opera a living, shared art.