Jean-Louis Pichon

Jean-Louis Pichon (; 18 September 1948 – ) was a French stage director, opera manager and author. He was manager of the Opéra de Saint-Étienne from 1983 to 2008, dedicated to the French repertoire, where he co-founded and directed the Massenet Festival around the works of Jules Massenet who was born there. Some performances were recorded, and shared with other French theatres and abroad. Pinchon also directed operas at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the Municipal Theatre of Santiago in Chile, and other theatres in France and abroad.

Life and career Pichon was born in Saint-Étienne on 18 September 1948. He studied classics, writing a thesis devoted to Racine's work. He then turned to theatre as both an actor and a director. He performed in the great classics (Britannicus, Andromaque, Le Cid, Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard, Hamlet, Les Femmes Savantes) and also played in temporary theatre by Beckett and Pinter, among others. It was recorded by Radio France, and also commercially recorded with choir and orchestra of the Opéra de Paris, For the seventh festival, in 2003, he directed Massenet's Sapho, conducted by Laurent Campellone.