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French stage director, actor and writer (born 1965)
Olivier Py (French pronunciation:
[pi] ; born 24 July 1965 in
Grasse ,
Alpes-Maritimes ) is a French stage director, actor and writer.
Career
In 1997, Py became director of the Centre dramatique national d'Orléans. In 2007, he became director of the
Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris.
[1]
Py describes himself as
Catholic and
homosexual .
[2] He is known for his emphasis on Catholic and
homoerotic themes.
Since the early 2000s, Py has increasingly devoted himself to the
opera . His productions of
La damnation de Faust ,
Tannhäuser and
Tristan und Isolde , all in Geneva, have generally been well received. In March 2008, he debuted at the
Paris Opéra . On this occasion he stated to a French magazine (
Diapason , March 2008) that he "would not be done staging operas until [he] did Wagner's
Ring and
Parsifal ".[
This quote needs a citation ]
Theatre
Works written and directed
1988: Des oranges et des ongles
1990: Gaspacho, un chien mort
1991: La femme canon et le bouquet final
1992: Les Aventures de Paco Goliard
1992: La Nuit au cirque
1992: La chèvre
1994: La Jeune fille, le diable et le moulin
1995: La Servante – histoire sans fin
1996: Apologétique
1997: Le Visage d'Orphée
1998: Requiem pour Srebrenica
1999: L'Eau de la vie
2000: Le Cabaret de Miss Knife
2000: L'apocalypse joyeuse
2001: Au monde comme n'y étant pas
2001: L'Exaltation du labyrinthe
2001: Épître aux jeunes acteurs pour que soit rendue la parole à la parole
2003: Jeunesse
2004: Le Vase de parfums , opera libretto
2004: Faust Nocturne
2004: Miss Knife chante Olivier Py
2005: Les Vainqueurs
2006: Illusions Comiques
2011:
Romeo et Juliette (Shakespeare), at Theatre de l'Odeon
2011: Die Sonne (Le Soleil) ,
Volksbühne Berlin ,
Berlin , Germany
Published works
1994: La Jeune fille, le diable et le moulin , L'école des loisirs
1998: Théâtre , Solitaires Intempestifs
2005: Les Vainqueurs , Actes Sud
2007: Les Enfants de Saturne
Other productions
1989: Mon Père qui fonctionnait par périodes culinaires et autres (
Élizabeth Mazev [
fr ] )
1996: Miss Knife et sa baraque chantante , Festival d'Avignon
1993: Les Drôles (Élizabeth Mazev)
1999:
Der Freischütz (
Carl Maria von Weber ), Opéra de Nancy
2001:
Les Contes d'Hoffmann (
Jacques Offenbach ),
Grand Théâtre de Genève
2003:
La damnation de Faust (
Hector Berlioz ), Geneva
2003:
Le Soulier de satin (
Paul Claudel ), Orléans
2005:
Tristan und Isolde (
Richard Wagner , Geneva
2005:
Tannhäuser (Richard Wagner), Geneva
2006:
A Cry from Heaven (
Vincent Woods )
2006:
Curlew River (
Benjamin Britten )
2008:
The Rake's Progress (
Igor Stravinsky ),
Opéra National de Paris (
Palais Garnier )
2008: La Trilogie du Diable: La Damnation de Faust (Hector Berlioz), Der Freischütz (
Carl Maria von Weber ), Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach).
Grand Théâtre de Genève
2017:
Mam'zelle Nitouche – in which he appeared as an actor/singer, touring until 2019
[3]
2018:
Lohengrin (Richard Wagner),
La Monnaie , Brussels; 2022
Opera Australia
[4]
Movies
Actor
1989: Dis-moi oui, dis-moi non (short) directed by Noémie Lvovsky
1995:
Funny Bones directed by Peter Chelsom
1995: Au petit Marguery directed by Laurent Bénégui
1995: 75 centilitres de prière (short) directed by Jacques Maillot
1995: Corps inflammables (short) directed by Jacques Maillot
1996: Casse-casse partie (TV) directed by Gérard Renouf
1996: Chacun cherche son chat directed by
Cédric Klapisch
1997: La Divine poursuite directed by
Michel Deville
1998:
Late August, Early September
1999: Peut-être directed by Cédric Klapisch
1999:
Nos vies heureuses directed by
Jacques Maillot
2000: Les Yeux fermés (TV) directed by Olivier Py
References
External links
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