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Top 25 Arts companies based in France
RevenueBase identified 2,800 arts companies headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 18,754 professional contacts across them, including 2,667 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers arts companies headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest arts companies based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,052 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “L’Opéra national de Paris s’attache depuis sa création en 1669 à faire vivre et rayonner les arts lyrique et chorégraphique, en France et dans le monde, avec quatre objectifs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formation de l'acteur et de l'actrice à Paris, Bruxelles, Montpellier et Bordeaux.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 291 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Opéra National de Lyon a pour mission la création, la production, et la diffusion, en France et à l’étranger, d’œuvres lyriques, musicales, et chorégraphiques.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 181 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Une idée de l’accessibilité inscrite dans notre ADN, un modèle hybride avant-gardiste dans notre secteur, et une audace créative qui pourraient bien tout changer pour vous.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 1862, le Théâtre du Châtelet joue un rôle prépondérant dans la vie culturelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 141 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Né en 1948, le Festival d’Aix-en-Provence s’est rapidement imposé comme l’un des grands rendez-vous de la saison lyrique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Its incredible artistic legacy has made the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées a national historic landmark and vital cultural center.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La passion nous rassemble.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Opéra-Comique est l’une des plus anciennes institutions théâtrales et musicales de France avec l’Opéra de Paris et la Comédie-Française.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 124 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Attachée à la promotion du patrimoine artistique et culturel français, et convaincue du rôle fédérateur que joue la culture dans le monde, Fimalac, fondée par Marc Ladreit de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse est l’un des cinq théâtres nationaux français (établissements publics dont les missions sont définies par l’État) et le premier à porter un…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains Le Fresnoy opened in 1997 and is based in a building renovated by the French-American architect Bernard Tschumi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Établissement au service des professionnels et du public, le CN D a pour missions l’accompagnement et la formation des danseurs professionnels, la conservation et la diffusion du…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En 1887 à Pigalle, La Cigale entonne son premier chant face à spectateurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis sa réouverture en décembre 2003, l’Opéra de Lille propose aux publics du nord de la France une programmation lyrique variée qui s’étend de la période baroque aux créations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’ENSATT est une « École-Théâtre » accueillant chaque année environ 180 étudiants en formation initiale ainsi que 70 à 80 professionnels en formation continue.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 78 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Colline est le dernier né des 5 théâtres nationaux dédiés à l’art dramatique et entièrement subventionné par le Ministère de la Culture, avec, à Paris, La Comédie Française…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Centre Dramatique National (Rennes).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bienvenue sur la page officielle de l'Opéra de Dijon!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis à Bobigny (MC93) est une scène nationale dont la singularité est d’être également un lieu important de production du spectacle vivant…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La MC2: Grenoble est dotée d’un complexe de quatre salles de spectacles et de studios de répétitions sans équivalent en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Un lieu indépendant, artistique, festif.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Théâtre du Rond-Point, dirigé par Laurence de Magalhaes et Stéphane Ricordel, est dédié aux auteurs vivants.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Ferme du Buisson est un Établissement public de coopération culturelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Figure de proue de l’île Seguin, La Seine Musicale, conçue par Shigeru Ban et Jean de Gastines, est un nouveau lieu culturel unique en son genre, pouvant accueillir tous les…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: arts companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names arts companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of arts companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name arts companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Arts companies based in France at a glance
As of Sep 21, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 2,800 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among arts companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “arts companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names arts companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among arts companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,667 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Arts companies by metro
- Arts companies in Paris566
- Arts companies in Lyon91
- Arts companies in Toulouse61
- Arts companies in Marseille57
- Arts companies in Bordeaux52
- Arts companies in Lille48
- Arts companies in Nantes47
- Arts companies in Rennes35
- Arts companies in Montpellier33
- Arts companies in Strasbourg29
- Arts companies in Montreuil25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names arts companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many arts companies are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 2,800 arts companies headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Opera National DE Paris, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most arts companies?
Paris leads with 566 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (91) and Toulouse (61).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,667 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,800 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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