Laurent Pelly

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Laurent Pelly (born January 14, 1962 in Paris ) is a French theater director, opera director and costume designer . Many of his opera productions are documented on DVD and have been broadcast worldwide on television.

life and career

Laurent Pelly founded his first theater company, Le Pelican, in 1980 at the age of 18. Since 1989 he has been running Le Pelican in cooperation with Agathe Mélinand, who has been regularly involved in Pelly's productions as a dramaturge since then and has edited libretti for his opera productions and wrote new dialogues.

From 1997 to 2007 Pelly was a director at the Center dramatique national des Alpes in Grenoble . In 2007 he took over the management of the Théatre National de Toulouse (TNT) with Agathe Mélinand. Laurent Pelly ended his work as co-director at TNT at the end of 2017, his successor being Galin Stoev.

1997 marked the beginning of his international career. Together with Mélinand he staged a scenic version of the Homeric Hymns at the Avignon Festival . In the same year he made his debut in Lyon and Geneva with Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in der Unterwelt , his first Offenbach production, which was to be followed by others in the following years: The beautiful Helena (Paris 2000), La Périchole (2002), Hoffmann's stories (Lausanne 2003, San Francisco 2013, Barcelona 2013, Japan tour 2014, New York 2017/18, Berlin 2019, The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein (Paris 2004, Geneva 2012), three one-act plays (Lyon 2005), Parisian life (Lyon 2007) , Le roi Carotte (Lyon 2015). In 1998 he directed Shakespeare's royal drama Vie et mort du roi Jean in Grenoble , which was shown in Avignon that same year.

Some of Pelly's productions have been part of the repertoire for years or have been added to the repertoire of international opera houses. Hoffmann's stories have been played repeatedly since the premiere in 2003 in Lyon and Lausanne, for example in New York in 2017/18, and the opera is on the Berlin program in 2019. The Daughter of the Regiment has been shown since its premiere in 2007 in London, both in New York, Vienna, Barcelona, San Francisco, Toulouse and Lyon. During his 40-year career as a director, he has staged over 100 plays, 40 of them operas and 60 plays.

Awards

  • 2009: Prix SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques)
  • 2011: Prix Georges-Lerminier du Syndicat de la critique for Mille francs de récompense by Victor Hugo
  • 2015: Prix du Meilleur créateur d'éléments scéniques décerné par l'association professionnelle de la critique de théâtre, musique et danse
  • 2016: International Opera Awards 2016 - "Best Director"
  • 2017: Prix de l'Europe Francophone for his interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Rooster .

Opera (selection)

The Regiment Daughter, Metropolitan Opera New York, 2011
  • 2013: Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck ; Glyndebourne; DVD DECCA
  • 2013: Jules César by Georg Friedrich Handel , Opéra Garnier, Paris
  • 2012: Manon by Jules Massenet , coproduction of the Metropolitan Opera, New York, La Scala in Milan and the Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse
  • 2012: L'enfant et les sortilèges and L'heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel, Glyndebourne (revival 2015), (Milan Scala 2016) DVD / Blu-ray: fRA Musica
  • 2009: Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy , Theater an der Wien; DVD Virgin Classics
  • 2007: The Daughter of the Regiment by Gaetano Donizetti . Coproduction with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera New York; Further performances: Opéra de Lyon, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona 2010 (revival 2017), Vienna State Opera 2007 (revival 2017), San Francisco Opera (2009); DVD Erato (recording Royal Opera House 2007)
  • 2006: The Love Potion by Gaetano Donizetti, coproduction of the Opéra National de Paris and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (premiere 2007); DVD BelAir
  • 2006: Cendrillon by Jules Massenet , Santa Fe Opera (Royal Opera House London 2011, Metropolitan Opera New York 2017/18); DVD Virgin Classics
  • 2004: The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre du Châtelet Paris; DVD TDK Mediactive, Arthaus Musik
  • 2004: Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, Opéra Garnier, Paris
  • 2004: Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini , Opéra Garnier, Paris
  • 2003: Hoffmann's stories by Jacques Offenbach, libretto edited by Agathe Mélinand. Opéra de Lausanne, Opéra de Marseille, Opéra de Lyon, San Francisco Opera (2012/13)
  • 2002: La Périchole by Jacques Offenbach. Opera de Marseille
  • 2000: The beautiful Helena by Jacques Offenbach. Théâtre du Châtelet, Festival Santa Fé, English National Opera. Awards: Victoire de la Musique, Meilleure production lyrique, Prix du Syndicat de la critique; DVD TDK Mediactive, Arthaus Musik
  • 1999: Platée by Jean-Philippe Rameau . Opéra Garnier, taken over by the Santa Fe Opera. DVD: TDK Mediactive, Blu-ray: Arthaus Musik
  • 1997: Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach. Opéra de Genève, Opéra de Lyon. DVD: TDK Mediactive, Arthaus Musik

Theater (selection)

Quote

“All the problems - morals, politics, aesthetics - posed by this stammering age are hinted at in Shakespeare's theater.
Because they have the deepest effects, the most burning issues: the problem of responsibility and freedom, doubt and the inability to communicate with one another, intoxication and abuse of power, the goal and purpose of violence like existence itself ...
The eyes are still open to a time that heaven has already given up, the poet from Stratford examines this dark world with the luminosity of a laser - as if floating between the recognizable and the inaccessible - he probes the roots of our consciousness.
As a result, Hamlet, Brutus, Richard, Lear, or Lady Macbeth are not literary abstractions. Their actions concern us, their torments are ours, their violence outlives us. "

- Laurent Pelly

Web links

Commons : Laurent Pelly  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opera-online, Laurent Pelly , accessed December 31, 2017.
  2. ↑ Théatre du Pélican, Center de création et d'éducation artistique pour l'adolescence et la jeunesse , accessed on December 31, 2017
  3. ↑ TNT, les directeurs , accessed April 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Le metteur en scène Galin Stoev prend la direction du TNT de Toulouse , accessed on January 2, 2018
  5. ↑ Interview Damien Dutilleul , olyrix.com, December 4, 2017, accessed on January 3, 2018
  6. ↑ Les prix du syndicat de la critique, 2011 , accessed on January 2, 2018.
  7. ^ Opera Awards 2016
  8. ↑ International Opera Awards 2016 , accessed January 2, 2018.
  9. ↑ Laurent Pelly donne un nouveau souffle à “La Cantatrice chauve” au TNT
  10. ^ Club de Theater, Meeting Game
personal data
SURNAME Pelly, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French theater director, opera director and costume designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris