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Théâtre du Châtelet · Paris
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Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme is performed at Théâtre du Nord-Ouest in Paris on 20 October 2026, 02:00. Tickets start from EUR 25.30. The production is presented by La Companie de l'Elan and staged by Bernard Lefebvre and Hélène Robin.
The cast includes Olivier Bruaux, Aurore Cureau, Sylvain Durand-Soriano, Marc Grèzes-Rueff, Balthazar Grimaldi, Fanny Heurguier, Bernard Lefebvre, Allen Nicolae, Rémi Picard, Hélène Robin, Joanna Rubio and Dario Tarantelli. Costumes are by Frédéric Morel, and the music is by Jean-Baptiste Lully. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is a five-act comédie-ballet, a play with music, dance and singing, with a text by Molière and music by Lully.
It satirizes attempts at social climbing. Its central character, Jourdain, is a middle-aged bourgeois who wants to be accepted as an aristocrat.
His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more.
Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV and became a French subject in 1661.
Théâtre du Nord-Ouest
Paris