Pierre Audi

Pierre Audi (born 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese theatre director and artistic director.

Pierre Audi is the son of the Lebanese banker Raymond Audi and Andrée Michel Fattal, the eldest of three children.^[1] Audi's family were originally from originally from Saida, but he attended the French Lycée in Beirut. While still at school, he initiated a cinema club and invited speakers including the film directors Pier Paolo Pasolini and Jacques Tati.

For family reasons, he moved to Paris in France and there attended the Collège Stanislas de Paris.^[1] At the age of 17, Audi together with his family moved to England. He studied history at Exeter College, Oxford. In his last year at Oxford during November 1977, he directed an Oxford University Dramatic Society production of Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare at the Oxford Playhouse.^[2]

In 1979, Audi founded the Almeida Theatre, an experimental theatre in Islington, north London. He directed many productions at the Almeida Theatre in the 1980s.

Since 1988, Audi is the artistic director of The Netherlands Opera (aka De Nederlandse Opera, DNO) in the Netherlands. Audi's productions with the DNO have included include the first complete performance of Ring Cycle in the Netherlands, the Lorenzo Da Ponte operas by Mozart, Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, Peter Greenaway and Louis Andriessen's Rosa and Writing to Vermeer, Alexander Knaifel's Alice in Wonderland, and Claude Vivier's Rêves de Marco Polo. Audi commissioned the opera Life with an Idiot by Alfred Schnittke.

Audi has been artistic director of the Holland Festival.

References

External links

• Pierre Audi in conversation with Joshua Cody, The Ensemble Sospeso, New York

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