RECENT AND UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
- Puccini's Tosca at the Opéra Grand Avignon;
- Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier at Theater Trier and Opéra Grand Avignon;
- Verdi's Falstaff, 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 De Munt and Oper Frankfurt), Gounod’s Faust (conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, at the Opéra national de Lyon), Schumann’s Manfred (conducted by Philippe Herreweghe, also in Lyon, at 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 & Ballet), 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), among others.
Recently, Berutti has staged 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 became the Operndirektor of Theater Trier until 2023, where he staged successively Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, Verdi’s Don Carlo, R. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier (in co-production with Opéra Grand Avignon), Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Verdi’s Falstaff.
Among his next engagements, Jean-Claude Berutti will stage Tosca at the Opéra Grand Avignon; Carmen and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Theater Trier; and Tristan und Isolde at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège.