Jean-Louis Pichon (born 1948) is a French stage director, opera
manager and author.After studying Classics, Jean-Louis Pichon carried
out research into theatre. In 1969, he attended a master's thesis
devoted to Racine's work. As an actor, it is to Fernand Ledoux that he
owes his training which lead on to the world first production of the
Monde Cassé from Gabriel Marcel at the Alliance Française Theatre in
1971; Jean-Louis Pichon was both stage director and actor in this play
where he embodied Antonnof.Since then, his double occupation has been
developed: he performed in the great classics (Britannicus,
Andromaque, Le Cid, Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, Hamlet, Les Femmes
Savantes and others) and also played many roles from the temporary
theatre: Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter, Weingarten, Foissy, and others. His
activities as a director are mainly in the straight theatre: Le
Médecin malgré lui by Molière, Le Roi se meurt by Ionecso, Monsieur
Barnett by Anouilh, Tartuffe by Molière, Huis Clos by Jean-Paul
Sartre, En attendant Godot by Beckett and Le Comédien aux liens by
Charles Rambaud.Jean-Louis Pichon has always had a passion for opera
and naturally directed his work into that sphere. First, with Le
Testament de la tante Caroline by Roussel, Amadis by Massenet in 1988,
the recording of which won the "Orphée d'Or" awarded by The National
Academy of Opera, and Thérèse, which represented France at the
European Festival of Culture in Karlsruhe before being played with
great success in Poland for the commemoration of the Bicentenary of
the French Revolution in 1989. His new production of Richard CÅ"ur de
Lion by Grétry was staged at the opera house in Nancy and Lorraine.
manager and author.After studying Classics, Jean-Louis Pichon carried
out research into theatre. In 1969, he attended a master's thesis
devoted to Racine's work. As an actor, it is to Fernand Ledoux that he
owes his training which lead on to the world first production of the
Monde Cassé from Gabriel Marcel at the Alliance Française Theatre in
1971; Jean-Louis Pichon was both stage director and actor in this play
where he embodied Antonnof.Since then, his double occupation has been
developed: he performed in the great classics (Britannicus,
Andromaque, Le Cid, Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, Hamlet, Les Femmes
Savantes and others) and also played many roles from the temporary
theatre: Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter, Weingarten, Foissy, and others. His
activities as a director are mainly in the straight theatre: Le
Médecin malgré lui by Molière, Le Roi se meurt by Ionecso, Monsieur
Barnett by Anouilh, Tartuffe by Molière, Huis Clos by Jean-Paul
Sartre, En attendant Godot by Beckett and Le Comédien aux liens by
Charles Rambaud.Jean-Louis Pichon has always had a passion for opera
and naturally directed his work into that sphere. First, with Le
Testament de la tante Caroline by Roussel, Amadis by Massenet in 1988,
the recording of which won the "Orphée d'Or" awarded by The National
Academy of Opera, and Thérèse, which represented France at the
European Festival of Culture in Karlsruhe before being played with
great success in Poland for the commemoration of the Bicentenary of
the French Revolution in 1989. His new production of Richard CÅ"ur de
Lion by Grétry was staged at the opera house in Nancy and Lorraine.
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