
Education
Literature and art history, École Normale Superieure de Paris, 1997
Debut
Il Signor Bruschino / Gianni Schicchi (Lausanne Opera; set & costumes by Julia Hansen), 2004
Career
Assistant at Harvard, 1997−1999
Doctorate in art history, Berlin, 1999
Director’s assistant: Le Nozze di Figaro (Opera National de Montpellier); Un Ballo in Maschera, (Opera National de Montpellier), Rinaldo (Vlaamse Opera); L'Italiana in Algeri (Opera National du Rhin), 2003−2005
Highlights
Il Viaggio a Reims(Bern, Oviedo, Tel Aviv, Vlaamse Opera); Guillaume Tell van Gretry (Biel-Solothurn); Albert Herring(Lubeck); La Belle Helène (Opera National du Rhin, Nantes); La Traviata (Bern); Pirame et Thisbe van Rebel en Francoeur (Nantes & Angers; first performance since 1771); Le Comte Ory (National Opera of Athens); Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Bern, Oviedo, Tel Aviv); Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Braunschweig); Rigoletto (Opera National de Lorraine); Werther (Opera National du Rhin); La Bohème (Stadttheater Bern); Platée (Opera National du Rhin); Giasone (Vlaamse Opera); Castor et Pollux (Theater an der Wien); Faust (Opera van Graz); Don Pasquale (Glyndebourne Festival); Der Rosenkavalier (Opéra national du Rhin)
Prizes
Third prize ‘Europäischer Opernregie-Preis’ (by Opera Europa & Camerata Nuova), Wiesbaden, 2003
Worked with
Harry Kupfer, Nigel Lowery, Amir Hosseinpour & Willy Decker.
Established collaboration with Julia Hansen (set & costumes)
Recent and future productions
Agrippina (Vlaamse Opera, Oviedo); Die Zauberflöte (Opéra national du Rhin); Le nozze die Figaro (Dortmund); Hänsel und Gretel (Opéra national de Paris); Don Pasquale (Glyndebourne); Il ritorno d'Ulysse in Patria (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées)
Last update on 13 September 2012
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