Samuel Sené is a French theatre director, musical director, pianist, and conductor .
He won four French Musical Theatre Awards (TCM): Best Director and Best Author for his musicals Comédiens! in 2018 and L'Homme de Schrödinger in 2019.
Samuel Sené obtained his baccalaureate at the age of 14. [1] In 1999, when he was 17, Sené entered the École normale supérieure de Cachan where he studied mathematics. After his time at the École normale supérieure de Cachan he obtained the French mathematics aggregation (agrégation de mathématiques). He thus became the youngest agrégé in France in this discipline. [2]
Sené first studied music at the Conservatoire d'Orléans and then at the Music school in Saint-Maur, where he won first prizes in piano, accompaniment and conducting.[ citation needed]
He first worked in Paris, for the théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique and Châtelet, then Brazil with the São Paulo State orchestras. [3]: 14 He has conducted numerous operas and operettas, such as Carmen, Orphée aux Enfers, Hamlet, La belle Hélène, Death in Venice, Normaand others. [4] He has also conducted many popular events, including the official Star Wars at the Grand Rex [3]: 20 and the Jules Verne Festival concerts. [5]
Samuel composed the opera Le dernier jour [6] which was selected and subsidised by the Fonds de Création Lyrique de la société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD). He wrote the arrangements of Richard Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Mozart's Don Giovanni for the Nouvelle Troupe Lyrique. He composed the music for the ballet Derviche mon amour, [7] [8] and the incidental music for plays such as Romeo and Juliet [9] and Dom Juan. His versatility also led him into the field of film music and variety: he worked as an arranger for Sabine Paturel, pop-symphonic shows, universal audiovisual programmes, etc.
Samuel then focussed on Anglo-Saxon musicals and was the musical director for Fame, Fiddler on the Roof, Rendez-vous, West Side Story, Next Thing You Know, Oliver!, Fantasmes de demoiselles, and, Into the Woods [10] (on tour in France 2018–19). He is also the educational director of the Musidrama workshops. [11] Co-founder of the West End Frenchies, a federation of Francophile musical theatre workers in London. He directed several of their Voulez-vous sing with me tonight cabarets, as well as the musical Pinot at the Colour House Theatre, also in London.
His dual musical and theatrical training has enabled Samuel to direct operas ( Tosca, Orphée et Eurydice, [12] Pagliacci [13]...), musical shows (Contes sans frontière at the Théâtre des Célestins, [14] the 2008–2009 editions of the Cérémonies des Marius, the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Ville en lumières Festival in the city of Troyes [15]), musical theatre creations such as Légendes parisiennes, #hashtags, Flop, Jack l'ombre de Whitechapel, and Week-end! and theatre pieces such as The Lesson by Ionesco at the Théâtre Mouffetard and the Lucernaire centre [16] theatres. In 2018, he created the musical Comédiens! which successfully ran at the Théâtre de la Huchette and received five awards including for best libretto, best show, and best direction. [17] [18] Then he wrote and directed L'homme de Schrödinger and Contre-temps.
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Samuel to go off the beaten track, and he directed the very first French virtual choir, The Show Must Go On, which was seen more than ten million times on various platforms. He created C-o-n-t-a-c-t, a remote theatrical experience 2.0, [19] which met with immediate success in Paris. It was soon translated into several languages and transferred to a dozen countries around the globe including the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, [20] He directed La flûte cyber-enchantée at the Opéra de Vichy, using a range of new video, streaming and videoconferencing technologies for a hyperconnected and interactive show. [21]
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translation from French. It may have been generated, in whole or in part, by a computer or by a translator without dual proficiency. (August 2023) |
Samuel Sené is a French theatre director, musical director, pianist, and conductor .
He won four French Musical Theatre Awards (TCM): Best Director and Best Author for his musicals Comédiens! in 2018 and L'Homme de Schrödinger in 2019.
Samuel Sené obtained his baccalaureate at the age of 14. [1] In 1999, when he was 17, Sené entered the École normale supérieure de Cachan where he studied mathematics. After his time at the École normale supérieure de Cachan he obtained the French mathematics aggregation (agrégation de mathématiques). He thus became the youngest agrégé in France in this discipline. [2]
Sené first studied music at the Conservatoire d'Orléans and then at the Music school in Saint-Maur, where he won first prizes in piano, accompaniment and conducting.[ citation needed]
He first worked in Paris, for the théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique and Châtelet, then Brazil with the São Paulo State orchestras. [3]: 14 He has conducted numerous operas and operettas, such as Carmen, Orphée aux Enfers, Hamlet, La belle Hélène, Death in Venice, Normaand others. [4] He has also conducted many popular events, including the official Star Wars at the Grand Rex [3]: 20 and the Jules Verne Festival concerts. [5]
Samuel composed the opera Le dernier jour [6] which was selected and subsidised by the Fonds de Création Lyrique de la société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques (SACD). He wrote the arrangements of Richard Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer and Mozart's Don Giovanni for the Nouvelle Troupe Lyrique. He composed the music for the ballet Derviche mon amour, [7] [8] and the incidental music for plays such as Romeo and Juliet [9] and Dom Juan. His versatility also led him into the field of film music and variety: he worked as an arranger for Sabine Paturel, pop-symphonic shows, universal audiovisual programmes, etc.
Samuel then focussed on Anglo-Saxon musicals and was the musical director for Fame, Fiddler on the Roof, Rendez-vous, West Side Story, Next Thing You Know, Oliver!, Fantasmes de demoiselles, and, Into the Woods [10] (on tour in France 2018–19). He is also the educational director of the Musidrama workshops. [11] Co-founder of the West End Frenchies, a federation of Francophile musical theatre workers in London. He directed several of their Voulez-vous sing with me tonight cabarets, as well as the musical Pinot at the Colour House Theatre, also in London.
His dual musical and theatrical training has enabled Samuel to direct operas ( Tosca, Orphée et Eurydice, [12] Pagliacci [13]...), musical shows (Contes sans frontière at the Théâtre des Célestins, [14] the 2008–2009 editions of the Cérémonies des Marius, the 2012 and 2013 editions of the Ville en lumières Festival in the city of Troyes [15]), musical theatre creations such as Légendes parisiennes, #hashtags, Flop, Jack l'ombre de Whitechapel, and Week-end! and theatre pieces such as The Lesson by Ionesco at the Théâtre Mouffetard and the Lucernaire centre [16] theatres. In 2018, he created the musical Comédiens! which successfully ran at the Théâtre de la Huchette and received five awards including for best libretto, best show, and best direction. [17] [18] Then he wrote and directed L'homme de Schrödinger and Contre-temps.
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed Samuel to go off the beaten track, and he directed the very first French virtual choir, The Show Must Go On, which was seen more than ten million times on various platforms. He created C-o-n-t-a-c-t, a remote theatrical experience 2.0, [19] which met with immediate success in Paris. It was soon translated into several languages and transferred to a dozen countries around the globe including the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, [20] He directed La flûte cyber-enchantée at the Opéra de Vichy, using a range of new video, streaming and videoconferencing technologies for a hyperconnected and interactive show. [21]
This section may be a rough
translation from French. It may have been generated, in whole or in part, by a computer or by a translator without dual proficiency. (August 2023) |