Every summer, the Chorégies in Orange offer popular operas, classical music concerts and other lyric art performances. The Chorégies in Orange are now the oldest festival in France, dating from 1869. But over the years, they have kept their sense of originality: in their name, derived from the Greek “choreos" and connecting them to the Greco-Latin tradition; and the place where they are held each year: the perfectly preserved Théâtre Antique, which has capacity for 8,600 people. This theatre is fortunate to have kept its stage wall, which stands thirty-seven metres tall, and guarantees exceptional acoustics; and the lyrical and musical direction they have chosen to follow, which makes them the top French festival and gives them an incontestable international reputation.