François de Carpentries

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François de Carpentries (* in the 20th century) is a French director who specializes in musical theater .

Life

De Carpentries studied the piano and oboe in Brussels, as well as literature and theater studies . De Carpentries wrote plays and lyrics, but was then stage manager at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. He also worked in a similar capacity at the Mark Morris Dance Company in Brussels . He then became an evening director, assistant director and first director at the opera in the Belgian capital. Here he worked with Luc Bondy , Patrice Chéreau , Peter Mussbach , Peter Stein and Herbert Wernicke . In addition, he directed new productions of their productions at houses in France (at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris), Spain (at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and at the Teatro Real Madrid ) and in England (at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London) .

He himself performed in Antwerp, Besançon, Brussels, Coburg, Friborg, Görlitz, Hof, Innsbruck, Klosterneuburg near Vienna, Koblenz, Krefeld-Mönchengladbach, Limoges, Lyon, Metz, Nancy, Nice, Nuremberg, Oslo, Montpellier, Reims, Strasbourg, Toronto, Tours, Wuppertal or Würzburg directed.

He often devoted himself to the realization of comic operas and operettas (by Gaetano Donizetti, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Battista Pergolesi, Gioachino Rossini, Johann Strauss or). Carpentries, however, also launched new operas, such as premieres by Georges Aperghis , Bernard Cavanna and Pascal Dusapin .

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