"MONTEVERDI - PIAZZOLLA, Angel Y Demonio" par EspritMusique- Reportage Caisse d'Epargne Esprit musique sur Monteverdi-Piazzolla
- Chaconne de la Suite en ré extraite du Premier livre de 1699 de Louis Marchand
Stephan Grögler
Staging
Born in 1966, Stephan Grögler first studies the violin before joining the Viennese Hochschule to take up studies in stage directing. He soon begins to work as assistant director in major theatres and opera houses in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, the USA and Japan, as well as for the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence festivals. In 1986 he starts mounting his own productions for which he also designs the sets. They include Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King and Miss Donithorn's Maggot in Vienna and Lyon, Eine Stravinsky-Milhaud Revue in Salzburg and Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw in Caen, with revivals at Rennes, Rouen, the Opéra Comique in Paris and the Opéra National in Lyon.
In 1995 he is appointed resident stage director at the Lyons Opéra National where he stages Gretel and Hänsel (Humperdinck), The White Rose (Zimmermann), The Telephone (Menotti), Aller-Retour (Hindemith), Suzan's Secret (Wolf-Ferrari), among other pieces.
In the 1997-1998 season he produces La Bohème in Bienne (Switzerland), The Rrape of Lucretia in Caen, Lausanne and Rennes. At the Opéra Comique in Paris, he stages Der Kaiser from Atlantis (Ullmann) and the world première of La Mort de Socrate by Graciane Finzi after a libretto by Jean-Claude Carrière. In 1999 he turns to The Beggar's Opera in Caen and Rouen, L'Anima del Filosofo (Haydn) in Lausanne and La Traviata in Dublin. In 2001 he presents Tancredi at the Opéra in Marseilles, La Cenerentola in Lausanne and Viva la mamma (Donizetti) at the Montpellier Opéra and then in Caen.
In 2003-04 he mounts Don Pasquale in Saint Gallen (Switzerland) and in Lausanne again, the much acclaimed production of Lulli's Roland in cooperation with Christophe Rousset.
His keen interest in innovating forms leads him to design and directa production of Kurt Weill's first American musical Johnny Johnson in a circus big top structure in Caen in 2000.
