Jean-Louis Martinoty Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jean-Louis Martinoty Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Jean-Louis Martinoty (20 January 1946 in Étampes â€" 27 January 2016

in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French opera director and writer.[1][2].

Renowned for his stagings of baroque operas in the eighties, he was

also General Administrator of the Paris Opera (1986â€"1989).Jean-Louis

Martinoty spent his childhood and his teens in Algeria where his

father was a tax official. In 1961, his parents came back to France

and settled in Nice. He studied classical letters and learned cello.

He started his professional life as a French teacher for some years,

then as writer and music critic at the newspaper "L'humanité". For an

interview, he met in 1972 the lyric director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle who

invited him to come to the Salzburg Festival where he was preparing

Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. One day, he replaced him for a

repetition and since this time, he became his assistant for his

stagings and wrote for him the scripts for most of his opera films

(whose La clemenza di Tito, Madama Butterfly, Carmina Burana). He made

himself one film (Pasticcio from Haendel) and realized two

documentaries about Italian mannerism. In 1992, he married with Tamara

Adloff.[3]Jean-Louis Martinoty made his first staging in 1975 with

Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer' s Night Dream at the Strasbourg Opera

followed by Offenbach's La Perichole. Then the Lyon Opera asked him to

make two stagings of baroque operas while baroque music was forgotten

since more than two centuries in France (Cavalli's Ercole Amante in

1979, Charpentier's David et Jonathas in 1981). He continued with a

lot of baroque productions all along his career. Among the more famous

: Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione of Poppea in 1982 with the baroque

conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire and especially in the same year

Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boreades in the Musical Festival of

Aix-en-Provence with John Elliot Gardiner as conductor. This last

opera, put on for the first time since 1770, obtained a striking

success and the Lyric Grand Prix Review.[4] Some years later, Lully's,

Alceste in the Champs-Elysées Theater in Paris has been stayed in the

memories, as the rare Salieri'sTarare, Cesti's L'Argia and Gassmann's

L'Opera Seria in the Schewtzingen Festival.His baroque world's

experience made him write a book in 1990 "Voyages à l'intérieur de

l'opéra baroque, de Monteverdi à Mozart" (Voyages inside baroque

opera, from Monteverdi to Mozart) in which he analysed a dozen works

on the dramatic, scenographic and political levels. But his many

stagings (about a hundred between 1975 and 2015) were not only baroque

operas and addressed the whole opera repertory on French and

International stages : Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at Covent

Garden, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Karlsruhe Festival for

which he made also decors, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld in

the Paris Opera, Bizet's Carmen in Tokyo, Mozart's Don Giovanni in the

Wiener Staatsoper[5], etc.He made also an incursion into the Viennese

operetta with Frantz Lehar's The Merry Widow and Johan Strauss's The

Gipsy Baron at the Zurich Opera under the musical direction of

Nikolaus Harnoncourt and even musical comedy with The Little Prince

from Saint-Exupery's novel on a music by Richard Cocciante at The

Casino de Paris in 2002.
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