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Paul Emile Fourny
After obtaining First prize of the 'Arts of the Word Theatre and Declamation' awarded in 1981 by the Royal Conservatory of Wallonia (Liège, Belgium) he worked successively as a professor, a comedian, a director and was director of animation at the Cultural Centre of Oupeye in Belgium.
In 1985, he joined Gérard Mortier's team at the Theâtre de La Monnaie of Brussels. Pursuing his career in France starting from 1989, he worked for the Opera d’ Avignon, les Chorégies d’ Orange, and was artistic and general director of the Opera de Nice from 2001 through 2009. He has been artistic director of the Opéra de Metz, Métropole, since April 2011.
A true man of the theater, he balances his work as a stage director concomitantly with the artistic administration of the institutions that have been entrusted to him. He has staged numerous operas in cooperation with prominent international venues, such as the New York City Opera and the State Opera of Prague for Duka’s Ariane et Barbe-Bleu, Buenos Aire’s Teatro Colón for Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Chóregies d’Orange, to name but a few.
In 2008 he staged Puccini’s Tosca in Nice, Modena, Piacenza and Ferrara, as well as Il Trittico at the International Music Festival of Macao during the Puccini jubilee. In 2009 he staged Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann at the National Opera of Syngapour, Puccini’s Manon Lescaut at the Torre Del Lago Festival and Gounod’s Faust at the New Israeli Opera in Tel-Aviv. In the summer of 2011 his production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni opened the Savonlinna Festival in Finland, and during that summer he also staged Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Chorégies d’Orange. In 2012 he signed new productions of Massenet’s Werther at Teatro Argentino de la Plata in Argentina, Bizet’s Carmen for the 50th anniversary celebration of the South Korean National Opera in Seoul, as well as Loewe's My Fair Lady and Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (in coproduction with Tours, Avignon, Massy, Metz and Reims). He has been responsible for new coproductions of Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera with the Opéra of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, and of Puccini’s Il Trittico with the National Theater of Slovenia in Maribor, as well as the theatrical adaptation of Charly 9 based on the novel by Jean Teulé.
He recently staged a new production of My Fair Lady in Maribor and an adaption for the stage of Albert Camus’ L’Étranger.
In 2016 he will stage Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as double-bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci.
Paul-Emile Fourny, France's prestigious Legion of Honour awarded him a "Chevalier" medal in 2007.
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