Olivier Py
Olivier Py (born July 24, 1965 in Grasse ) is a French actor, director, theater manager and author of stage works.
Life
Py attended school in Cannes and studied in Paris at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique . He works as a director, actor and writer. In 1997, he was in Orléans director of the Center national de création d'Orléans and 2007 in Paris director of the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe until he replaced there in 2011 for political reasons and by Luc Bondy was replaced. Since 2001 he has had several commissions for opera productions at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and in 2008 with The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky, his first production at the Opéra National de Paris ( Palais Garnier ). In April 2012 he realized the opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas at the Theater an der Wien . In 2015 he also directed the first version of the Flying Dutchman there .
Py has designed, written and published a variety of theater productions. His play, The Sun , which reflects the theater situation , was premiered in 2011 at the Volksbühne in Berlin . In 2012 Py staged for the first time as an opera director in Germany at the Opera of the City of Cologne ( Die Macht des Schicksals von Giuseppe Verdi ).
Py has directed the Avignon Festival since 2013 , where he first worked in 1995.
Filmography (selection)
- 1994: The Resurrection of Colonel Chabert (Le colonel Chabert)
- 1995: Funny Bones (Funny Bones)
- 1995: Hippolytes Festival (Au petit Marguery)
- 1996: ... and everyone is looking for their kitten (Chacun cherche son chat)
- 1997: The hunt for the dancing god (La divine poursuite)
- 1998: end of August, beginning of September (Fin août, début septembre)
- 1999: Nos vies heureuses
- 1999: Peut-être
- 2008: Le bruit des gens autour
- 2013: Violette
Opera productions
- 1999 Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz - Opéra de Nancy
- 2001 Jacques Offenbach : Les contes d'Hoffmann - Grand Théâtre de Genève
- 2003 Hector Berlioz : La damnation de Faust - Grand Théâtre de Genève
- 2005: Richard Wagner : Tristan and Isolde - Grand Théâtre de Genève
- 2005: Richard Wagner : Tannhäuser - Grand Théâtre de Genève
- 2005 Benjamin Britten : Curlew River - Edinburgh International Festival , then Théâtre de Nîmes and Opéra de Lyon
- 2007 Claude Debussy : Pelléas et Mélisande - Moscow
- 2008 Igor Stravinsky : The Rake's Progress - Opéra National de Paris ( Palais Garnier )
- 2009 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Idomeneo - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
- 2010 Alban Berg : Lulu - Grand Théâtre de Genève and then at the Gran Teatre del Liceu , Barcelona
- 2010 Paul Hindemith : Mathis the Painter - Opéra National de Paris ( Opéra Bastille )
- 2010 Charles Gounod : Roméo et Juliette - De Nationale Opera , Amsterdam, then at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen
- 2011 Giacomo Meyerbeer : Les Huguenots - Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , Brussels and then at the Opéra national du Rhin , Strasbourg
- 2012 Ambroise Thomas : Hamlet - Theater an der Wien and Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie , Brussels
- 2012 Georges Bizet : Carmen - Opéra de Lyon
- 2012 Giuseppe Verdi : La forza del destino - Cologne Opera
- 2013 Thierry Escaich : Claude - Opéra de Lyon
- 2013 Giuseppe Verdi : Il trovatore - Bavarian State Opera , Munich
- 2013 Christoph Willibald Gluck : Alceste - Opéra National de Paris ( Palais Garnier )
- 2013 Giuseppe Verdi : Aida - Opéra National de Paris (Opéra Bastille)
- 2013 Francis Poulenc : Dialogues des Carmélites - Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , Paris
- 2015 Paul Dukas : Ariane et Barbe-Bleue - Opéra national du Rhin , Strasbourg
- 2015 Gabriel Fauré : Pénélope - Opéra national du Rhin , Strasbourg
- 2015 Richard Wagner : The Flying Dutchman (first version) - Theater an der Wien
- 2016 Jacques Fromental Halévy : La Juive - Opéra de Lyon
- 2016 Giuseppe Verdi : Macbeth - Theater Basel
- 2016 Jules Massenet : Manon - Grand Théâtre de Genève
Source:
Works (selection)
Fonts in German edition:
- The sun . Translation by Leopold von Verschuer. Gifkendorf: Merlin, 2011
- Paradise of sadness . Gifkendorf: Merlin, 2005
- The celebration of the maze . Gifkendorf: Merlin, 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Olivier Py in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Olivier Py in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Olivier Py in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Olivier Py at Operabase (productions)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cultural policy in the style of a landlord? at: dradio , April 15, 2011
- ^ The sun at Nachtkritik.de
- ↑ Olivier Py , at the Avignon Festival (en)
- ^ Les Archives du Spectacle , accessed November 16, 2016
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Py, Olivier |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor, director, theater manager and author of stage works |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1965 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Grasse |