Vincent Boussard

Vincent Boussard (born 21 April 1969) is a French opera and theatre director. First a specialist for early opera, he became known for his versions of romantic operas, sometimes in international collaboration. His staging of Massenet's Manon was presented at the Vilnius National Opera, the San Francisco Opera and the Korea National Opera. His production of Bellini's I puritani was shown at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie and the Oper Frankfurt.

Career Born in Angers, Boussard studied at the Paris Nanterre University and graduated as a Master of Theatre. He was the assistant to several directors in theatre and opera. From 1996 to 2000, he directed the Studio-Théâtre de la Comédie-Française in Paris, where he made his directorial debut in 1999.

His operatic beginning is marked by close collaborations with William Christie, Teresa Berganza and Bernard Foccroulle, director of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (Brussels) who has regularly invited him.

His productions have since been widely distributed in Europe, including Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Strasbourg Opera House, Liceu of Barcelona, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Hamburg State Opera. La Monnaie in Brussels, Theater an der Wien, Royal Swedish Opera, Semperoper in Dresden, Saint Gall Theater, Bayerische Staatsoper, Aalto Theatre, and the Opéra de Marseille. He has staged operas in Asia, such as New National Theatre Tokyo, and in the US, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Staging

Theatre 1998: Le Glossaire by Max Rouquette, Studio-Théâtre de la Comédie-Française. 1999: Escurial, trois acteurs, un drame... after Michel de Ghelderode, Studio-Théâtre de la Comédie-Française.

Opera 2000: Charpentier: Actéon and Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, les Arts Florissants (cond. William Christie), Paris and New York 2005: Le Jardin des Voix (2nd edition), Les Arts Florissants 2005: Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto, Chapelle Reine Elisabeth, La Monnaie 2006: Mozart: Così fan tutte, La Monnaie 2006: Menotti: Maria Golovin, Opéra de Marseille 2011: Bernstein: Candide, Staatsoper Berlin * 2016: Verdi: Otello, Salzburg Easter Festival 2016: Wagner: Lohengrin (opera), Theater Sankt Gallen 2017: Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, Aalto Theatre 2017: Verdi: Otello, Staatsoper Dresden 2017: Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, Liceu, Lisbon 2017: Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Lithuanian National Opera 2018: Bellini: I puritani, Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège, and Oper Frankfurt