Jean-Claude Berutti

Biography

Jean-Claude Berutti is director of the Comédie de Saint-Etienne, one of the leading theatres in France. He has a special dedication to rediscovery of rarely staged or forgotten texts. His last two stagings have been acclaimed by both the audience and the French and European critics: Les Temps difficiles by Edouard Bourdet at the Comédie-Française and Goldoni's forgotten Trilogy, Zelinda and Lindoro, which was awarded the Goldlittle Lion at the Biennale of Venice in 2007.

In the opera, Jean-Claude Berutti has been staging for over 20 years works such as Louise by Gustave Charpentier (La Monnaie in Brussels, 1983, Francfort Opera, 1986), Manfred by Schumann (La Monnaie, Opéra de Lyon, 1993), Le Meuble Rouge by Alberto Bruni-Tedeschi (Avignon Opera, 1995), Il Mercato di Malmantile by Cimarosa (Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg, 1996), Dantons Tod by Gottfried von Einem (Opéra Royal de Wallonie, 1998), Faust by Gounod (Lyon Opera, 2000), Passagio by Berio (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris, 2001), Rusalka (Lyon Opera and New Israeli Opera Tel Aviv, 2002), Lohengrin by Sciarrino (Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris, 2002), L'incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi (CNSM, Paris, 2004), König Kandaules by Zemlinsky (Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Nancy Opera, 2006), L'elisir d'amore by Donizetti (Leipzig Opera, 2007), Wiener Blut by Johann Strauβ (Nancy Opera, 2008) and Tannhäuser (Opéra national de Bordeaux).

Jean-Claude Berutti has collaborated with conductors such as Sylvain Cambreling, Philippe Herreweghe, Jonathan Nott, Emmanuelle Haïm, Bernhard Kontarsky, Emmanuel Krivine, Christophe Rousset and Ivan Fischer, among others.

His next opera production is Verdi's Otello at the Opéra national de Nancy.

October 2009

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