Vincent Boussard
(stage director)
After his debut as a stage director at the Studio Theatre of the Comédie-Française, Vincent Boussard devoted himself to opera-staging since 2001. Since then, he has staged more than 40 different operas, from Cavalli, Mozart and Bellini to French Grand Opéra, Wagner, Puccini, as well as Kurt Weill and contemporary composers. He has worked for some of the world’s leading companies including Salzburg Easter Festival, Opéra Royal de La Monnaie de Bruxelles, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra de Marseille, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, Staatsoper Hamburg, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona, Kungliga Operan in Stockholm, Theater an der Wien, San Francisco Opera, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Korea National Opera in Seoul, Innsbruck Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and many others. He has already worked with such conductors as Christian Thielemann, Daniel Harding, Yves Abel, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Lionel Bringuier, Riccardo Frizza, Alexander Joel, Andreas Spering, René Jacobs and William Christie, among others.
A selection of stagings:
Verdi’s “Otello” (2016, Easter Festival in Salzburg; 2017, Semperoper Dresden)
Verdi’s “La traviata” (2015, New National Theatre in Tokyo)
Verdi’s “Un ballo in Maschera” (2017, Liceu de Barcelona)
Händel’s “Agrippina” (2010, Staatsoper Berlin)
Bernstein’s “Candide” (2011, Staatsoper Berlin)
Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi” (2011, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; 2012, San Francisco)
Bellini’s “I puritani” (2018, Oper Frankfurt and at Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège)
Bizet’s “Carmen” (2011, The Royal Swedish Opera)
Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” (2012, Staatsoper Hamburg)
Puccini’s “La fanciulla del West” (2015, Staatsoper Hamburg)
Mozart’s “Così fan tutte” (2006, La Monnaie in Brussels)
Mozart’s “Le nozze di Figaro” (2007, Festival International d’Art Lyrique d’Aix en Provence)
Cavalli’s “Eliogabalo” (2004, La Monnaie in Brussels)
Cimarosa’s “Il matrimonio segreto” (2005, La Monnaie in Brussels)
Massenet’s “Werther” (Opéra de Lausanne)
Massenet’s “Manon” (2015, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, San Francisco)
Offenbach’s “Les contes d’Hoffmann” (Seoul)
Lully/Charpentier’s “Molière et ses musiques” (Opéra Royal in Versailles)
Thomas’ “Mignon” (Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège)
Some of his productions have been TV-broadcasted and released on DVD.