Biographies

Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil

Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil met in Bordeaux while studying political science and fine arts history. In 2001, Maestro Yves Abel invited them to stage Gluck’s Pèlerins de la Mecque at the Opéra Français de New York (OFNY). They were artistic directors of OFNY from 2005 to 2012.
In 2012, they founded in Bordeaux their own company: Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab.

Recent productions: Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy (La Monnaie-De Munt Brussels), Britten’s Death in Venice (Opéra National du Rhin), Verdi's Il Trovatore (Opéra de Rouen Normandie). 

Upcoming productions : Dvorak's Rusalka (Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra de Nice Côte d'Aur), Bellini's La Sonnambula (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma).

Their directing credits include : Mozart’s Mitridate, Re di Ponto (La Monnaie-De Munt Brussels), Haendel's Serse (Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Staatstheater Nurnberg), Strauss' Salome (Staatstheater Wiesbaden), Haydn’s 7 Last Words of Christ on the Cross (Fundaçao Gulbenkian Lisbon, Casa da Musica Porto), Messiaen’s Harawi (Opéra Comique), Debussy’s Martyre de St Sébastien (Cité de la Musique, Arsenal de Metz, Fundaçao Gulbenkian Lisbon), Dusapin’s To Be Sung (OFNY), Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette (Spoleto USA Festival), Gounod’s Faust (Opéra National de Bordeaux), Offenbach’s Contes d’Hoffmann (Theater Freiburg, Angers Nantes Opéra), Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Lélio (Orchestre des Champs-Elysées), Auber’s Manon Lescaut (Wexford Festival Opera), Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat (Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano / Eté Métropolitain Bordeaux), Puccini's Butterfly, Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Grieg's Peer Gynt (Opéra de Limoges), Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites and Rossini’s Cenerentola (Opéra de Toulon).