Overview
- Producers Rivaj Production and Gilbert Coullier Productions have officially announced 'Dalida in paradisco,' a musical‑theatrical show about Dalida that will tour France, Geneva and Brussels between October 2027 and April 2028.
- Orlando, Dalida's brother and manager of her cultural estate, has given formal backing and granted access to press files and notes that Jolly will use as spoken material between songs.
- The plan includes two avant‑premières in Rouen and Caen, a residency at the Dôme de Paris from mid‑October to early January, and a subsequent run in 13 French cities plus Geneva and Brussels.
- Jolly has described the show as a 'disco and dreamlike odyssey' that aims to let audiences sing, dance and be moved, and he says the archival fragments will help tell both Dalida's public life and private struggles.
- The production arrives as Jolly prepares to co‑direct the publicly funded Théâtre National Populaire, and his public remarks about recent show cancellations in municipalities led by the RN have framed the project in a wider debate over local political influence on culture.