Patrice Chéreau

Patrice Chéreau
Born	(1944-11-02) 2 November 1944 Lezigne, France
Occupation	director, screenwriter, actor, producer
Years active	1964–present

Patrice Chéreau (pronounced: [pa.tʁis ʃe.ʁo]; born 2 November 1944) is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.

Biography

The 1976 centenary production of Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Pierre Boulez and directed by Patrice Chéreau.

Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager of his high-school theatre (lycée Louis-le-Grand). At 15, he was enthusiastically celebrated as a theatre prodigy. In 1964, at the age of 19, he began directing for the professional theatre. In 1966 he created a very busy Public-Theatre at the Parisian suburb of Sartrouville. In 1969, he staged his first opera. The following year he established a close relationship with the leadership of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler. In 1975 he worked in Germany for the first time directing Edward Bond's Lear. He often collaborated with Claude Stratz. He began his relationship with his lover and favorite actor Pascal Greggory in 1987.

Chereau's most discussed production was his 1976 centennial staging of Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival, conducted by Pierre Boulez. Polarizing fans and critics, Chereau chose to set the operas during the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, and was thought to have emphasized the dramatic rather than the musical elements of the works.^{[citation needed]}

His influence on opera productions around the world was increasingly visible ever since that milestone production, having substantial impact on concepts of other directors and designers who had chosen to follow the path of the so-called "Regietheater", which may involve the transposition of the stage action into a different historical context by means of anachronistic or abstract costumes and set designs.

Chereau assumed a guest curator role with the Louvre in 2010. He incorporated dance, opera, theater, film and painting into his show, “Faces and Bodies”.

Theatre (directed)

• Peer Gynt by Ibsen (1981) at Amandiers - Taped for TV
• La Fausse suivante by Marivaux (1985) at Amandiers - Taped for TV
• Combat de Nègre et de Chiens by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1985) at Amandiers
• Quai Ouest (1985) by Bernard-Marie Koltès at Amandiers
• Dans la solitude des champs de coton by Bernard-Marie Koltès (1986) at Amandiers - Taped for TV
• Le Retour au Désert (1988) by Bernard-Marie Koltès at Amandiers
• Hamlet (1989) at Amandiers - Taped for TV
• Le Temps et la Chambre by Botho Strauss (1992) at Odéon - Taped for TV
• Dans la solitude des champs de coton (1995–96) at Ivry, Wiener Festwochen and Brooklyn Academy of Music - Taped for TV
• I Am the Wind by Jon Fosse, English language version by Simon Stephens (2011) at Young Vic Theatre, London. With Tom Brooke and Jack Laskey.

Opera (directed)

• Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach (1973–1980) at Opéra National de Paris - Tape for TV
• Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner at Bayreuth Festival - Filmed for TV
  • Das Rheingold (1976–1980) : evening
  • Die Walküre (1976–1980) : first day
  • Siegfried (1976–1980) : second day
  • Götterdämmerung (1976–1980) : third day
• Lulu by Alban Berg (1979) at Opéra National de Paris - Taped for TV
• Lucio Silla by Mozart (1984) at Amandiers, La Monnaie and Teatro alla Scala - Taped for TV
• Wozzeck (1993–1999) at Châtelet and Berlin Staatsoper - Taped for TV
• Don Giovanni (1994–1996) at Salzburg Festival
• Così fan tutte (2005-6) at Aix-en-Provence, Opéra National de Paris and Wiener Festwochen - Taped for TV/DVD
• From the House of the Dead by Leoš Janáček (2007 spring and summer) at Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival, Aix-en-Provence, Teatro alla Scala and Metropolitan Opera
• Tristan und Isolde (2007 winter) at Teatro alla Scala

Filmography

Director

• Persécution (2009)
• Gabrielle (2005)
• His Brother (2003) - won a Golden Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival
• Intimacy (2001) - won the Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear for Best Film
• Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998) - won César Award Best Director
• Dans la solitude des champs de coton (1996, TV version)
• Queen Margot - won the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize
• Contre l'oubli (1991)
• Hôtel de France (1986)
• L'Homme blessé (1983) - won César Award Best Screenplay
• Judith Therpauve (1978)
• La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)

Producer

(for his company "Azor Films")

• Così fan tutte (2005, TV)
• Gabrielle (2005)
• Son frère (2003)
• Intimacy (2001)
• Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude (1995, TV documentary)
• Chéreau - L'envers du théâtre (1986, TV documentary)
• L'Homme blessé (1983)

Actor

• Time of the Wolf (2003) by Michael Haneke, as Thomas Brandt
• Nearest to Heaven (2002) by Tonie Marshall, as Pierre
• Le Temps retrouvé (1999) by Raoul Ruiz, as Voice of Marcel Proust
• Lucie Aubrac (1997) by Claude Berri, as Max
• Dans la solitude des champs de coton (1996, TV version) - Le dealer
• Bête de scène (1994, short) by Bernard Nissille - Le metteur en scène
• The Last of the Mohicans (1992) by Michael Mann, as General Montcalm
• Adieu Bonaparte (1985) by Youssef Chahine, as Napoléon Bonaparte
• Danton (1982) by Andrzej Wajda - Camille Desmoulins

Himself

• Freedom to speak (2004)
• Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude (1995) (TV)
• Il était une fois dix neuf acteurs (1987) (TV)
• Chéreau - L'envers du théâtre (1986)

Notable TV guest appearances

• Claude Berri, le dernier nabab (2003) (TV)
• Bleu, blanc, rose (2002) (TV)
• Thé ou café 14 September 2003

External links

• Patrice Chéreau at the Internet Movie Database
• Unitel Highlight - The Boulez/Chéreau Ring

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