2024-04-04 18:19:40
The Opéra Garnier, in Paris, March 20, 2024. EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP
The ax has fallen: the Ministry of Culture has just notified several large national establishments of the budget cuts they will suffer in 2024, following the decree canceling credits taken by Bercy. While rue de Valois must find 204.3 million euros in savings (including 99.5 million euros in the heritage program and 96 million euros in that of creation) renowned institutions will be upgraded. contribution.
Thus, the Paris Opera will lose six million euros, the Comédie-Française, five million euros, the Louvre museum, 3 million euros, the French Academy in Rome and Sèvres-Mobilier national, one million euros each, the national theater of La Colline and the national theater of Chaillot, 500,000 euros each. There are still 11 million euros to find, which should concern projects, the nature of which is not specified, ” postponed to 2025.
Those around the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, still wonder about Bercy’s choice to focus most of its budgetary efforts on creation and heritage. According to our information, Ms. Dati was not consulted on this breakdown. It is now seeking to avoid damage in a sector, the public service of performing arts, already battered by inflation and the disengagement of certain local authorities.
A “short-term” budgetary policy
Rue de Valois, we assure that discussions have been constant with national operators. These new cuts would be sustainable and should not have operational consequences on current projects, the Paris Opera, for example, having announced on March 20 that it would be a beneficiary of 2.3 million euros. With less comfortable cash flow, the Comédie-Française will undoubtedly have to readjust its economic model. “ This cut of five million was not confirmed to me by an official notification “, wonders its director, Eric Ruf, who denounces a budgetary policy ” court-termiste » and a drain on the subsidy far from being as « painless » than the ministry suggests. “ Is the weakening of theater now the norm? », asks the administrator of the Comédie-Française.
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“It’s not a stroke of a plane, but a stroke of a billhookestimates a CFDT French representative. Five million euros means fewer creations, fewer curtain raisers, therefore fewer audiences, and also less patronage”. As for the Louvre, it will not be able to fall back on its working capital, which has been completely dried up by the Covid-19 pandemic. The museum, which has already increased its entrance fee by 30% this year, will not be able to consider further increases, otherwise it would provoke a revolt from its visitors.
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