Born in Beirut, Pierre Audi (1957–2025) began his career in London, where he founded the Almeida Theatre in 1979 and directed it until 1989. He then became artistic director of the Amsterdam Opera (1988–2018) and the Holland Festival (2004–2014). In these roles, he collaborated with visual artists such as Karel Appel, Georg Baselitz, Anish Kapoor, and Jonathan Meese.He directed the world premieres of Thebans by Anderson, Penthesilea by Dusapin, and Fin de partie by Kurtág, as well as major contemporary works including Neither by Feldman, Rêves d’un Marco Polo by Vivier, and aus LICHT by Stockhausen. His opera productions also include Venus and Adonis, Tamerlano, and Parsifal in Munich; The Magic Flute and Dionysos in Salzburg; Rigoletto in Vienna; Pelléas et Mélisande, Orlando, and Alcina in Brussels; Attila and Guillaume Tell in New York; and Bomarzo in Madrid.From 2015, he served as artistic director of the Park Avenue Armory in New York. In 2018, he became director of the Aix-en-Provence Festival. His most recent productions include L’Apocalypse arabe and Le Retour d’Ulysse dans sa patrie at Aix-en-Provence, Orpheus and Eurydice in Florence, and Siegfried and Götterdämmerung at La Monnaie in Brussels.At the Paris National Opera: La Juive, 2007; Tosca, 2014; Fin de partie, 2022.

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