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Anolis assists award-winning Théâtre des Champs-Élysées lighting renovation
The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées - built between 1911 and 1913, and located near Paris’ famous Avenue des Champs-Élysées - has had the lighting in its main 1900-capacity auditorium completely reimagined.
A new award-winning design by ProjetScénie, which collected the 2025 LIT Award for Heritage Lighting Design, includes a modern, sustainable feature lighting solution from Anolis to illuminate the “shield of light” glass ceiling centrepiece and its surrounding fresco paintings. ProjetScénie’s lead designer Yann Jourdan chose Anolis Calumma and Eminere LED fixtures to illuminate these specific elements.
On his first visit to the theatre, Jourdan immediately saw the potential for transforming the auditorium’s 35-metre diameter glass ceiling flower-like centrepiece into a “living and breathing” light art feature. As well as being energy efficient, the brief was to have a new “classical” signature lighting scheme for theatrical performances, and the scope to change colours for other special events and celebrations staged in the room. Jourdan proposed re-utilising the “technical area” in between the theatre’s original concrete roof and the glass auditorium ceiling.
For lighting the glass, a white painted part of the ceiling is lit with strategically positioned Anolis Calumma XLs and Calumma Ms directly, which reflects back, colouring the 175 square metres of thick glass. The Eminere 2s illuminate the circle of frescos around the edge of the centre. Originally, incandescent bulbs were used to light the paintings, later replaced with industrial fluorescents that were still in place when ProjetScénie embarked on this mission. The Eminere 2s have also been fitted into this technical space together with most of the wiring, all neatly concealed from view.
The ninety-six Eminere 2s are arranged in two rows of 48 around the top of the ceiling, where they are hidden from view by the lip of the glass, while evenly and smoothly lighting the paintings on the circular, scalloped ceiling above. The previous fluorescents had been masked by some scenic pieces, however, these additional parts are now not needed due to the more compact physical size of the Eminere 2s and their 60 cm length, which proved ideal for the circular spread of light.
Their greater and more directional output enables the frescos to be lit neatly and elegantly, and these Eminere2s also reflect onto the second balcony, boosting the ambient light levels there. The ten Calumma XLs and twelve Calumma Ms are positioned in the technical area, central to the glass and focused on the white ceiling covering so the light reflected is back in the glass.
Bruno Francois, the Anolis product specialist from Robe France, worked closely with the design team at the factory to create a special white calibration for the Eminere 2s that covers the 1,800 to 4,000 degrees Kelvin range. They also completed extensive 3D modelling to accurately predict the colour rendering of the glass surface.
The lights are controlled via a Visual Productions CueCore3 module with touch screen access, and the Anolis fixtures can also run on the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées house stage lighting console for events. The installation was completed by D6 Bell Light (D6BL) who had to work quickly with the glass ceiling protected by hard foam for the duration. The entire project was delivered in a timeframe of seven weeks once all the design concepts were green-lit.
(Photos: Yann Jourdan/ProjetScénie)
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