Alain Perroux
Artistic Consultant, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, France

Upon pursuing literature studies at the University of Geneva, Switzerland (where he studied German literature in addition to musicology), of choral conducting (with Michel Corboz) and of voice at the Conservatoire Supérieur of Geneva, and building upon his eight years of experience in musical journalism (at the Journal de Genève writing for Le Temps), Alain Perroux became dramaturg at the Grand Théâtre de Genève from 2001 à 2009. He is nowadays artistic consultant and dramaturg for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, in France. In 1998 he created a version for actors and singers of Ibsen's and Grieg's Peer Gynt for the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, a recording of which under the Aeon/Harmonia Mundi label received several awards (including "Diapason d’or" of the year and "Choc du monde de la musique") and for which he was also responsible for staging its dialogues (in three languages working with actors such as Lambert Wilson, Susanne Lothar and Sir Derek Jacobi). In 2000 he published L’Opéra, mode d’emploi (published by Premières Loges), in addition to biographies of Frank Martin and of Franz Schreker (published by Papillon). More recently, he was chief editor of the collection Tristan et Isolde au seuil du XXIe siècle (published by Labor et Fides) and Grand Théâtre de Genève, 100 spectacles pour un début de siècle (published by La Baconnière). He also released La Comédie musicale, mode d’emploi (published by Premières Loges) and participated in the edition of Dictionnaire Encyclopédique Wagner (published by Actes Sud). Parallely, he is director of the "Opéra de Poche" (Pocket Opera) in Geneva, an independent opera company which performs in various cities across Romandie and with which he has presented, as impresario and stage director: Impressions de Pelléas de Debussy in 2004 and 2011, La Calisto by Cavalli in 2006 and Sweeney Todd by Sondheim in 2008 and 2009. He is also the librettist of an opera by contemporary composer Xavier Dayer, entitled Contes de la lune vague après la pluie, which will have its world première in Rouen (France) in March 2015.