Master Arts — Musique en scènes

Master Arts, with a specialization titled Musique en scènes, sits within the discipline of performing arts and musicology, drawing together the study of music with staging, dramaturgy, and live performance practice. Programs of this kind typically train students to analyze and produce works that combine sound, movement, and stagecraft, examining how musical works are conceived, arranged, and brought to the stage in contexts ranging from opera and concert performance to interdisciplinary and experimental productions. Coursework generally covers music history and analysis, aesthetics, dramaturgy, staging and scenography, sound and performance technologies, and the practical organization of live musical events, alongside broader training in arts research methods and critical writing. Students are usually expected to combine theoretical study with hands-on project work, developing both scholarly and practical skills relevant to the performing arts sector. Graduates from a program in this field typically pursue careers as performers, artistic directors, dramaturges, producers, arts administrators, or researchers, and some continue toward doctoral study in musicology or performance studies. This master's degree is offered by the École normale supérieure de Lyon, located in Lyon, France, an institution known for training researchers and specialists across the humanities and sciences. The program runs over two years, with a start date in September, and instruction is delivered in French. Yearly tuition is 250 EUR. Because the program is taught in French, applicants should be prepared to study, discuss, and write about music and performance in that language throughout both years of the degree, and to engage with both academic and practice-based assessment.