RECENT AND UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
- Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier at Theater Trier and Opéra Grand Avignon;
- Puccini's Tosca, Verdi's Don Carlo, Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro at the Theater Trier;
- Verdi's Ernani at the Lithuanian National Opera Vilnius.
JEAN-CLAUDE BERUTTI
stage director

BIOGRAPHY
Since his debut as stage director, Jean-Claude Berutti always stages both theatre and opera. He signed a hundred productions in several theatres in Europe such as G. Charpentier’s Louise (conducted by Sylvain Cambreling at La Monnaie DeMunt and Oper Frankfurt), Goundo’s Faust (conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, at the Opéra de Lyon), Schumann’s Manfred (conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, at Opéra de Lyon, La Monnaie and Opéra National du Rhin), Verdi’s La Traviata, Puccini’s La Bohème and J. Strauss II’s Wiener Blut (Opéra National de Lorraine), Verdi’s Ernani (Lithuanian National Opera Vilnius), Bettina, inspired by Goldoni (Théâtre National de Strasbourg, Théâtre National de Belgique and Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg), Edouard Bourdet’s Les Temps Difficiles (Comédie-Française) and Gilles Granouillet’s L’Envolée (Zagreb City Theatre, Comédie de Saint-Étienne and Théâtre de Liège).
Recently, Berutti has staged the World premieres of German translations of Benoit Soliès’ La Machine de Turing, at the Theater im Zimmer (Hamburg), and Peter Turrini’s Sept Secondes d’Éternité, at the Miniteater (Ljubljana).
After being the Artistic Director of Théâtre du Peuple de Bussang (1997-2002) and Comédie de Saint-Étienne (2002-2011), he is the Operndirektor of Theater Trier, where he stages successively Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, Verdi’s Don Carlo and R. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (in co-production with Opéra Grand Avignon).
Among his next engagements, Jean-Claude Berutti will stage Puccini’s Tosca, Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.