Île de la Cité Events - May 2027
May 2027 is the month to catch things before they close: the Louvre's photography season ends on the 3rd, and the cathedral gives a recital and a Vespers-and-Mass double bill.
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WATCH & LISTEN
Organ recital — Olivier Latry
📅 Tuesday, May 11, 2027, 8.30pm (about 1 hour)
An hour on the great organ for €25 — the cheap seat in a month whose other cathedral date is €40.
📍 Location: Notre-Dame Cathedral, 6 parvis Notre-Dame
Note: €25, reduced €15.
Mozart — Solemn Vespers of the Confessor, with Haydn's Nelson Mass
📅 Tuesday, May 18, 2027, 8.30pm (1 hour 30). Repeated Wednesday, May 19
Mozart's Vespers and Haydn's Nelson Mass in one evening, 90 minutes of it — the cathedral's classical night this spring.
📍 Location: Notre-Dame Cathedral, 6 parvis Notre-Dame
Note: €40, €25, reduced €15.
LEARN & DO
Louvre Photo
📅 to Monday, May 3, 2027 — final days
Three days left of the photography season; after the 3rd the Louvre's next photography show has no published date.
📍 Location: Musée du Louvre, Hall Napoléon
Note: €22 in France and the EEA, €32 outside it. 9am–6pm, closed Tuesday.
Paris, au naturel — Une histoire environnementale
📅 Friday, April 2 – Sunday, August 22, 2027
In its second month, running to 22 August — the summer's long exhibition, open every day but Monday.
📍 Location: Musée Carnavalet, 23 rue de Sévigné, 3rd
Note: Tuesday to Sunday 10am–6pm.