Olivier Py

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]}

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]

^ Darge, Fabienne; Herzberg, Nathaniel (8 December 2006). "Nomination surprise d'Olivier Py à l'Odéon". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 2008-03-11.
^ Solis, René (12 May 2007). "Le théâtre est le lieu du païen", interview with Olivier Py published in Libération
^ Capron, Stéphane (18 December 2017). "Olivier Py et Miss Knife dans l'opérette Mam'zelle Nitouche en octobre à l'opéra de Toulon, une production du Palazzetto Bru Zane". Sceneweb (in French). Retrieved 8 January 2019.
^ Patricia Maunder (16 May 2022). "Lohengrin (Opera Australia)". Limelight (review). Retrieved 23 May 2022.

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