The Cabaret at the circus there is only one step

December is reappearing as the fir trees and garlands in the streets, the music of Offenbach on lyrical scenes. Can help see "La périchole" (03 87 15 60 60) Metz 17 to December 31, "La Belle Hélène" Opera of the Rhine () from December 19 to January 23 and Marseille (04 91 55 11 10) 21-December 31 and "Parisian life" to Avignon (04 90 82 42 42) from December 30 to January 2. There is also with Franz Lehar and his "Merry Widow", courted by the Opéra de Nancy-Lorraine (03 83 85 33 11) from December 23 to January 1 and the Grand Theatre of Geneva ( 41 22 418 31 30) from 14 to 31 December. Fans of pastries will fail to make a detour via the auditorium du Louvre (01 40 20 55 00) where "A season at the Vienna Opera" will be held from December 18 to May 15.

The curious place "Man of la Mancha" in the French version had immortalized Jacques Brel in the theatre of the Capitole de Toulouse (05 61 63 13 13) 14-December 19. While rare, "Ali Baba", of Cherubini, open the Opera of the Rhine from December 15 to January 30. While the Théâtre du Châtelet (01 40 28 28 40) will celebrate the transformation of a saleswoman of flowers in "my fair Lady", in a new production of the famous musical until February 2.

Children are not forgotten. The theatre Edouard-VII (01 47 42 59 92) will propose every afternoon, from 20 to 24 and 27-31 (at 14: 30-5 p.m.), "Peter and the Wolf", Prokofiev, with Eve Ruggieri as soloist - the "Christmas show" Radio classic (group Les Echos)! As the theatre of the Champs-Elysées (01 53 23 99 19), reserve them the "Carnival of the animals" reviewed by Shirley and Dino from 19 to 23 December. Is big children, that the Théâtre de l ' Athénée (01 53 05 19 19) intends to "Phi Phi", operetta Christiné - company the bandits will be blowing the "Gallic spirit" This burlesque ancient story from December 16 to January 9.

A royal vaudeville in Paris for the holidays: the Comédie-Française ends the year and begins the next beauty with "Wire leg", Feydeau, directed by Jérôme Deschamps, salle Richelieu (alternating until June 18). The show is hilarious and reservations may be taken by storm in December, (08 25 10 16 80). "Places are also expensive for the other vaudeville - Russian one - proposed by the second room of the French, the Vieux-Colombier (01 44 39 87 00/01),"The wedding", of Gogol", in the subtly dreamlike version of Lillo Baur. On the boulevards, a good contemporary boulevard, "The first name", at the theatre Edouard-VII (01 47 42 59 92), with Patrick Bruel, Jean-Michel Dupuis, Valérie Benguigui.

Laughter and smiles, continuously, in any end of year, with "Cabaret New Burlesque", fresh, just "show" out of "The tour" screen, Mathieu Amalric film, at the Théâtre de la Cité International (01 53 35 50 00) from December 27 to January 15. The Cabaret at the circus, there is only one step... Traditional circus and the Cirque d'hiver Bouglione (08 92 68 0 8 92), presenting his new show "Prestige", with the circus (08 25 03 90 40) Phoenix, lawn of Reuilly, with "The most beautiful numbers of the world" selected by Alain Pacherie. New circus space, capitals of the parc de la Villette (01 40 03 75 75) with Archaos and his "In vitro 09" served by sémillants Brazilian acrobats, and the theatre of the roundabout (01 44 95 98 21), with the québécois Eloize, back with his favourite show "Rain" (from December 16).

Of the strass, wires, masks, this late 2010 combines dance with the spectacular. In a version of pocket, "The melody of happiness", played and danced by the Salzburg marionettes, should please everyone with these cults bonus melodies, in Paris at the Théâtre Dejazet (01 41 90 00 09) until 2 January. Angelin Preljocaj gives him his new "Franco-Russian" opus, "Follow one thousand years of calm", mixing the dancers of the Bolshoi and those of his troupe, within sumptuous royal Opera of Versailles (01 30 83 78 89), from 27 to 30 December. From Bordeaux, it is a couple of famous lovers, "Romeo and Juliet", which will melt the hearts - and ice -in a "large type" version of Charles Jude at the Grand Theatre (05 56 00 85 95), from 16 to 31. Another icon of the academic ballet, "Cinderella" is seriously "relifté" in the version of Maguy Marin, which celebrates its 400 e representation (a record of the genus!). Cinderella and its partners bear masks in a universe where the wonderful the dispute to the grotesque (Opera de Lyon, 08 26 30 53 25), from December 22 to January 1.