Rosalía declares herself a work of art in Lyon

Décines-Charpieu (France)The LDLC Arena in Décines-Charpieu, near Lyon, is the venue Rosalía has chosen to kick off the most ambitious tour of her career. Maximalist by nature, just like the album. Lux (2025), the artist from Sant Esteve Sesrovires has lived up to expectations with a spectacular concert, both in terms of staging and sound. In a way, he has transcended the album's conceptual framework, from which he performed fifteen songs; he only left out a few. New World, Jeanne and MemoryIn return, he has recovered a few from the stage Motomami, and head ofThe ill willIncidentally, perhaps because of the melodramatic weight of Lux It leaves no room for the material from that album. All of this was presented with a main stage, where she and the dancers primarily performed, and a secondary stage in the shape of a cross in the middle of the dance floor where the chamber orchestra played, with strings and percussion essential to pieces like Berghain, clear.

By escaping or downplaying the spiritual trappings, she has created a show that has more to do with Rosalía as a work of art, a show that amplifies Lux with dance and staging, with choreographies that draw on diverse classics and with an operatic dramaturgy, not only because of its segmentation into four acts, but also because of a set design of large mobile blocks and enormous curtains and because of resources taken from operas such as ToscaFor example, the way Rosalía threw herself backwards into the void at the end of Focu 'ranni, exactly like Puccini's suicidal heroine.