Small Bulletin Lyon - Info Lyon: Mercato - Richard Brunel is the new director of the Lyon Opera - article published by Sébastien Broquet<

White smoke finally escaped from the roof of the Lyon city hall this Tuesday: the successor of Serge Dorny (who goes to direct the Bavaria Opera) at the head of the Lyon Opera is called BelWell Richard Brunel.Information remained for a time for the conditional, because since last week we were waiting for the final validation by Franck Riester and the Ministry of Culture for the choice of the jury.Approval desired quickly before the opera board of directors, scheduled for November...Hence the launch by the town hall of a press communique in the middle of the afternoon, before the final validation, to obviously put a small "pressure" in Paris, which was slowly too much in the eyes of Gérard CollombTo confirm the choice of the Lyonnais jury.Franck Riester finally validated this choice to appoint Richard Brunel two hours later, shortly after 6 p.m. Tuesday 22.

Relaunched during the summer for lack of convincing candidates, but also even if it should not be said - to see if failed from the Paris Opera (where Alexander Neef was finally chosen after a long soap opera) would not be wornNot in the stride candidates in Lyon, the selection process accelerated in early October with the hearings of the retained in the short list.Among them were Bruno Messina, director of the Berlioz festival, or Laura Åkerlund, the only woman in the selection, Christophe Ghristi (Director of the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse) and Laurent Joyeux (Director of the Dijon Opera).Sebastian Schwarz, director of the Teatro Regio de Turin, was the only one to really compete with Richard Brunel and instill doubt in the head of the jury among these names.

But the choice finally fell on the current director of the comedy of Valencia, where he has been working since 2010 and which he will leave at the end of this year.Originally trained at the School of the Comedy of Saint-Etienne then alongside Bob Wilson, Krystian Lupa, or even Alain Françon, the director knows the Lyon Opera well for having already set up several works in these placesThe support of Serge Dorny, who has the ear of Gérard Collomb, weighed in the decision of Der Jasager der ne insager de Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 2006 at the Cercle de Craie by Alexander von Zemlinsky last year.And he must create in 2020 Shirine, on a Goncourt 2008 ATIQ RAHIMI booklet and a composition by Thierry Escaich.

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Make a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014, also actor, he is used to alternating theatrical and operas creations, approaching both the classical repertoire (Bertolt Brecht) and the contemporary (Peter Handke) or thePoetry (Maurice Blanchot and Jean Genet).We also owe him in 2015 the staging to put an end to Eddy Bellegueule by Édouard Louis.He was the only short list artist.Richard Brunel was also one of the candidates from another short list this year: that for the management of the TNP in Villeurbanne, where Jean Bellorini was finally chosen.

(article updated at 6:40 p.m. with the official validation of the Ministry of Culture)