Halloween 2025: the program that will thrill children and adults alike at the Philharmonie de Paris

We all know the kind of music that gives us the creeps. Music that strikes us with dread, creates instant anguish, and provokes immense fear in us. From the theme of Jaws to the music of The Shining and Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre, fear has always inspired musicians and composers.

But who better to tell us all about it than the Museum of Music? And what better time to discuss fear thanHalloween? As you can imagine, on this Friday, October 31, 2025, as the little Halloween monsters roam the streets of the capital, we're off to the Philharmonie de Paris for a day like no other!

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The musical heart of the City of Light offers children and parents a varied and unusual musical program to experience on October 31, 2025. Whether it's a family show, a concert-promenade or a film-concert, the Philharmonie has something to delight music lovers, fans of horror stories, and all the visitors who love thisHalloween season.

Here is the Philharmonie program:

• Concert-promenade at the Museum (ages 6 and up)
  Scare me
  Friday, October 31, 2025 - 2:30 pm and 3:30 pm
  Ariane Pawin - Solène Riot - Natalia Valentin - Manu Domergue Trio
  Scary stories, rock ghosts, a pianist witch and chilling workshops await you at the Museum to celebrate Halloween.
  Costumes and disguises strongly recommended.
  10 € Museum admission included - Free for under-26s
  
  
• Family show (ages 6 and up)
  La maison des chocottes
  Friday, October 31, 2025 - 3:00 pm and 7:00 pm
  Les Lunaisiens - Orchestre Démos Paris - Le Chœur des Polysons - Arnaud Marzorati
  On this Halloween night, let's play scared with Satan and his army of undead as they prepare to conquer the world of the living. Arnaud Marzorati, a veteran of shows that introduce children to music, invites them to play at being scared this Halloween night.
  Surrounded by a team from all horizons - Démos Paris (with a social vocation), the Chœur des Polysons and musicians from his ensemble La Clique des Lunaisiens - he invites young and old to discover the disquieting Maison des chocottes in song, and to join in the fun by participating, if they wish, in the show's sound effects. Come on board for goosebump-inducing stories!
  12 € Child / 16 € Adult
  
  
• Ciné-concert
  Nosferatu by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
  Friday, October 31, 2025 - 8:00 pm
  Tackling Murnau's Nosferatu with incisive fearlessness, three free-spirited figures on the French scene - Emmanuelle Parrenin, Jérôme Lorichon and Quentin Rollet - exacerbate the fatal beauty of this absolute classic of silent fantasy cinema.
  24 euros one price

Children and adults enjoy a special day, surrounded by the fantastic creatures and artists featured at the Philharmonie de Paris. Will you dare to face your fears with music?