Jorge Lavelli (born 1932, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinean theater and
opera director. The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Lavelli
has lived in France since the early 1960s. He became a French citizen
in 1977.In 1963 he staged Witold Gombrowicz's play The Marriage,
introducing this playwright to the French public. Lavelli later staged
Gombrowicz's Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy (1965) and Operetta
(1971).In 1967, Lavelli began a collaboration with Jean Vilar to stage
Goethe's Triumph der Empfindsamkeit (Triumph of Sensitivity) and Oscar
Panizza's The Cathedral of Love (1969; sets and costumes by the
surrealist painter Leonor Fini). From 1987 to 1996 he was head of the
Théâtre de la Colline in Paris.Lavelli has staged plays by
Calderón, Shakespeare, Corneille, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, GarcÃa
Lorca, Ionesco, Schnitzler, Brecht, Pirandello, Dürrenmatt, Thomas
Bernhard, O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Peter Handke, Edward
Bond, George Tabori, Chekhov, Bulgakov, and Mrocze, and operas by
Bartók, Bizet, Debussy, Gottfried von Einem, Gounod, JanÃ¡Ä ek, Luigi
Nono, Maurice Ohana, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Heinrich Sutermeister.
As an opera director he worked mainly for the Paris Opera, but also
for the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, and the Aix-en-Provence
Festival.
opera director. The son of Italian immigrants in Argentina, Lavelli
has lived in France since the early 1960s. He became a French citizen
in 1977.In 1963 he staged Witold Gombrowicz's play The Marriage,
introducing this playwright to the French public. Lavelli later staged
Gombrowicz's Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy (1965) and Operetta
(1971).In 1967, Lavelli began a collaboration with Jean Vilar to stage
Goethe's Triumph der Empfindsamkeit (Triumph of Sensitivity) and Oscar
Panizza's The Cathedral of Love (1969; sets and costumes by the
surrealist painter Leonor Fini). From 1987 to 1996 he was head of the
Théâtre de la Colline in Paris.Lavelli has staged plays by
Calderón, Shakespeare, Corneille, Ramon del Valle-Inclan, GarcÃa
Lorca, Ionesco, Schnitzler, Brecht, Pirandello, Dürrenmatt, Thomas
Bernhard, O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Peter Handke, Edward
Bond, George Tabori, Chekhov, Bulgakov, and Mrocze, and operas by
Bartók, Bizet, Debussy, Gottfried von Einem, Gounod, JanÃ¡Ä ek, Luigi
Nono, Maurice Ohana, Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Heinrich Sutermeister.
As an opera director he worked mainly for the Paris Opera, but also
for the Vienna State Opera, La Scala, and the Aix-en-Provence
Festival.
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