Director of theater, opera and film. He was actor, director, producer, screenwriter, "one-man band" of the French and European scene of the last half century, director of a dozen films, author of a dozen screenplays and more than a hundred large stagings of plays and operas, the great classical repertoire to most modernist versions. Considered a prodigy, he took on a succession of jobs directing theatre throughout his 20s before entering the world of opera. In 1976, he garnered acclaim as an opera director with his staging of Richard Wagner's powerful "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. Mythical director of Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre, outside Paris, between 1982 and 1990. He served as a master teacher of film at the Columbia University, the City College of New York, and the School of Visual Arts for a program called "On Set With French Cinema" (2003). He also was president of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, of La Fémis, France's most prestigious film school. His greatest international success in film, was "Queen Margot", starring French actors Isabelle Adjani and Vincent Pérez, the film went on to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year. He also won five Caesar Awards, the French version of the Oscars in 1994. As a theater director he won the Molière Award five times, the European Theatre Prize, and the Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis (1993).
Cause of death: lung cancer.
Cause of death: lung cancer.
Director of theater, opera and film. He was actor, director, producer, screenwriter, "one-man band" of the French and European scene of the last half century, director of a dozen films, author of a dozen screenplays and more than a hundred large stagings of plays and operas, the great classical repertoire to most modernist versions. Considered a prodigy, he took on a succession of jobs directing theatre throughout his 20s before entering the world of opera. In 1976, he garnered acclaim as an opera director with his staging of Richard Wagner's powerful "Der Ring des Nibelungen" at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. Mythical director of Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre, outside Paris, between 1982 and 1990. He served as a master teacher of film at the Columbia University, the City College of New York, and the School of Visual Arts for a program called "On Set With French Cinema" (2003). He also was president of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, of La Fémis, France's most prestigious film school. His greatest international success in film, was "Queen Margot", starring French actors Isabelle Adjani and Vincent Pérez, the film went on to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year. He also won five Caesar Awards, the French version of the Oscars in 1994. As a theater director he won the Molière Award five times, the European Theatre Prize, and the Friedrich-Gundolf-Preis (1993).
Cause of death: lung cancer.
Cause of death: lung cancer.
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