Pierre Audi
Pierre Raymond Audi (born November 1957 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a French - Lebanese theater director and theater manager .
Life
Pierre Audi was born as the first child of the Lebanese banker and politician Raymond Audi from Sidon and his wife Andrée Michel Fattal. Audi has two siblings, his brother Paul is a philosopher and author, his sister Shérine is also a banker.
During his school days at the French grammar school in Beirut, Pierre Audi initiated a film club and invited Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jacques Tati as lecturers , among others . For family reasons, he moved to Paris , where he attended the Collège Stanislas . When Pierre Audi was 17 years old, the family went to England . At Exeter College of the University of Oxford , he studied from 1975 to 1978 history and staged in November 1977 for the Oxford University Dramatic Society (Oud) at the Oxford Playhouse Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare . Here he discovered his real calling as a director.
In 1979 he founded the experimental Almeida Theater in London-Islington , where he was artistic director until 1989 . In 1990 Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid took over the artistic direction of the London theater. His work at the Almeida Theater earned him an international reputation and in 1988 was appointed artistic director of the De Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam . Numerous engagements as a guest director have taken him to various European opera houses. From 2005 to 2014 he was also the artistic director of the Holland Festival . After his contract in Amsterdam expired in 2014, he returned to London, where he staged the world premiere of "Thebans" by Julian Anderson and Frank McGuinness at the English National Opera (ENO) .
Awards
- 1990: Leslie Boosey Award from the Performing Rights Society and the Royal Philharmonic Society
- 1992: BMW Music Theater Prize at the Munich Biennale
- 1996: Prijs van de Kritiek (Dutch theater critic award)
- 2000: Order of the Dutch Lion
- 2001: Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 2001: Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Theater Prijs
- 2009: Johannes Vermeerprijs
Web links
- Pierre Audi in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Pierre Audi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Pierre Audi in the catalog of the German National Library
- Pierre Audi at Allmusic (English)
- Pierre Audi at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pierre Raymond Audi ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Who's Who .
- ^ Pierre Audi , genealogical tree at GeneaNet.
- ^ Curriculum Vitae Raymond Wadih Audi , Société des Membres de la Légion d'Honneur, December 2011.
- ↑ Pierre Audi ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , One Fine Art, accessed June 7, 2014.
- ↑ Holland Festival 2014, last edition under Pierre Audi ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Holland Festival, 2014.
- ↑ 60 Seconds With Pierre Audi , Wall Street Journal , May 1, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Audi, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Audi, Pierre Raymond (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-Lebanese theater director and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Beirut , Lebanon |