Patrice Chéreau

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Patrice Chéreau (born 2 November 1944) is a French opera and theatre director, film maker, actor, and producer.

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[edit] Biography

  • Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, France, and went to school in Paris. At an early age he became well-known to Parisian critics as director, actor, and stage manager at his high-school theatre. With 15 years of age he was enthusiastically celebrated a theatre prodigy.
  • 1964 being 19 years old he already was a director at a professional theatre.
  • 1966 he created a very busy Public-Theatre at the Parisian suburb of Sartrouville.
  • since 1970 a close relationship was established with the Milano Piccolo-Teatro, Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler
  • 1975 he worked in Germany for the first time directing Edward Bond's Lear.
  • 1969 he put his first opera on stage.

One of his biggest successes was his 1976 staging of Richard Wagner's tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival, in a centennial production conducted by Pierre Boulez.

[edit] Theatre

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Director

[edit] Producer

(for his company "Azor Films")

  • Così fan tutte (2005, TV)
  • Gabrielle (2005)
  • Son frère (2003)
  • Intimacy (2001)
  • Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude (1995, TV documentary)
  • Chéreau - L'envers du théâtre (1986, TV documentary)
  • The Wounded Man (1983)

[edit] Actor

[edit] Himself

  • Freedom to speak (2004) - Himself - Director, France
  • Patrice Chéreau, Pascal Greggory, une autre solitude (1995) (TV) - Himself
  • Il était une fois dix neuf acteurs (1987) (TV)
  • Chéreau - L'envers du théâtre (1986) - Himself - Director of 'Lucio Silla'

[edit] Notable TV guest appearances

  • Claude Berri, le dernier nabab (2003) (TV) - Himself
  • Bleu, blanc, rose (2002) (TV) - Himself
  • Thé ou café playing "Himself" 14 September 2003

[edit] External links

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