LOUISE BRUN
stage director
RECENT AND UPCOMING ENGAGEMENTS
- Oh La La La ! - operetta show, at Opéra national de Lorraine (2026) and Opéra de Dijon (2024);
- Momo, l'Enfant Pêche by H. Shionoya and L. Brun, with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège (2026) and Victor Hugo Orchestra (2025);
- Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri, at the Festival Opus Opéra Gattières (2026);
- Donizetti's Don Pasquale (assistant director), at Opéra de Nice Côte d'Azur (2026), Opéra de Toulon (2025), and Opéra national de Lorraine (2024);
- Bizet's Carmen (assistant director), at the Shanghai Opera House (2024);
- Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, at the Opéra national de Bordeaux (2023).
BIOGRAPHY
Louise Brun is a graduate of the Bordeaux Conservatory in France, where she studied violin, classical dance, and choral singing. It was through choral singing that she discovered the stage of the Opéra national de Bordeaux with the Jeune Académie Vocale d'Aquitaine (JAVA). She pursued her higher education in Classical Literature in preparatory classes (Hypokhâgne/Khâgne) and earned two bachelor’s degrees: one in Art History and another in Performing Arts.
In 2017, after five years of experience as an opera stage manager, she began collaborating with stage director Emmanuelle Bastet (Hansel und Gretel, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, La Bohème, and Carmen). She has also assisted directors David Hermann (Ariadne auf Naxos), Émilie Capliez (L’Enfant et les Sortilèges), Amélie Niermeyer (Don Pasquale), Yoshi Oïda (Madama Butterfly), and Timothy Sheader (Don Pasquale). She made her debut at the Opéra national de Paris with Kirill Serebrennikov for his new production of Lohengrin, followed by the revival of I Puritani directed by Laurent Pelly.
In March 2022, Louise Brun directed her first production, Poulenc’s La Voix humaine, at the Auditorium Cariplo in Milan. The following season, she joined the inaugural class of the Bordeaux National Opera Academy as a director and presented a new production of Dido and Aeneas at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in February 2023, in an arrangement by Haru Shionoya. Following this successful collaboration, they founded their own lyric company, L’Opéradienne. She wrote the libretto and directed their first production, Momo, l’Enfant Pêche, which premiered in November 2025; the show won First Prize at the finals of the international Composition Competition for Young Audiences, initiated by the Victor Hugo Orchestra. Her work Oh La La La!, an operetta for choir, children’s choir, and piano commissioned by the Opéra de Dijon in 2023, is scheduled for an orchestral version at the Opéra national de Lorraine in June 2026. She is also creating a new production of Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri for the Opus Opera festival, in collaboration with the Opéra de Nice, in July 2026.