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Jean-Louis Martinoty

December 15, 2023

Jean-Louis Martinoty (20 January 1946 in Étampes – 27 January 2016 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French writer and an opera director..[1][2] Renowned for his stagings of baroque operas in the eighties, he was also General Administrator of the Paris Opera (1986–1989).

Jean-Louis Martinoty in 2007

Biography edit

Jean-Louis Martinoty spent his childhood and his teens in Algeria where his father was a tax official. In 1961, his parents returned to France and settled in Nice. Martinoty studied classical letters and cello. He started his professional life as a French teacher for some years, then becoming a writer and music critic for the newspaper L'Humanité. In 1972, he interviewed the stage director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, who invited him to come to the Salzburg Festival where he was preparing Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. After replacing Ponnelle for a rehearsal he became his assistant and the writer of the scripts for most of his opera films (including La clemenza di Tito, Madama Butterfly and Carmina Burana). Martinoty made one film himself (Pasticcio from Haendel) and realized two documentaries about Italian mannerism. In 1992, he married Tamara Adloff.[3]

Jean-Louis Martinoty made his first staging in 1975 with Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer' s Night Dream at the Strasbourg Opera. It was followed by Offenbach's La Perichole. The Lyon Opera subsequently asked him to stage two Baroque operas whose music had been forgotten since more than two centuries, Cavalli's Ercole Amante (1979) and Charpentier's David et Jonathas (1981). Martinoty continued with numerous other Baroque productions. Among his more famous efforts are Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea (1982) with Jean-Claude Malgoire and Jean-Philippe Rameau's, Les Boreades at the Musical Festival of Aix-en-Provence with John Eliot Gardiner. This last opera, put on for the first time since 1770, obtained a striking success and the Lyric Grand Prix Review.[4] Some years later, Martinoty revived Lully's Alceste in a memorable production at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, next to Salieri'sTarare, Cesti's L'Argia and Gassmann's L'Opera Seria at the Schwetzingen Festival.

Inspired by his Baroque experiences Martinoty published the book Voyages à l'intérieur de l'opéra baroque, de Monteverdi à Mozart ('Travels inside Baroque opera, from Monteverdi to Mozart', 1990) in which ten opera works are analyzed on dramatic, scenographic and political levels.

His roughly one hundred stagings between 1975 and 2015 feature the whole opera repertory and were presented on both French and international stages : Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at Covent Garden, Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen in Karlsruhe Festival (for which he designed the sets), Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld in the Paris Opera, Bizet's Carmen in Tokyo, Mozart's Don Giovanni in the Wiener Staatsoper,[5] etc. He also made an excursion into the Viennese operetta with Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and Johan Strauss's The Gipsy Baron at the Zurich Opera under the musical direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and even musical comedy with The Little Prince (Casino de Paris, 2002), based on Saint-Exupery's novel with new music by Richard Cocciante.

Martinoty's strong acting direction, his erudite stagings [6] in regular collaboration with the Austrian decorator Hans Schavernoch and the costume designer Daniel Ogier, were applauded most of the time, such his production Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro which received again Grand Prix of the best lyric production.[7] Created in the Champs-Elysées Theater in 2001, it was three times taken back during the following seven seasons, then in the Wiener Staatsoper where it entered the directory. In contrast, Gounod's Faust at the Bastille Opera in 2011 with Roberto Alagna in the title role was the object of a salvo of negative criticisms, in particular because of the loaded decoration and of his direction considered too "kitsch".[8]

He made a remarked come-back in 2012 with Verdi's Macbeth at the Bordeaux National Opera. This production was his last staging. Jean-Louis Martinoty died from the complications of heart surgery in a hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He was just seventy. Fleur Pellerin, Minister of Culture and Communication, honored him in a press release : "...The Opera world is mourning the death of one who was revealed very early as one of the best directors of his generation ... He was also one of the great administrators of the Paris opera, at the same time guardian of the lyrical tradition and visionary open to modernity [...] He was one of those directors whose art is to remain totally at the service of music's great pieces, giving us totally to see to allow us to better hear them..." .[9] In October 2017, his friend Jean Ristat published a long elegiac poem about his disappearance, Éloge Funèbre de Monsieur Martinoty ('Funeral Praise of Mr Martinoty').

Jean-Louis Martinoty is buried at the cemetery of Joiselle, a village in the Marne department where he lived for forty-five years.

General Administrator of the Paris Opera edit

Jean-Louis Martinoty has been General Administrator of the Paris Opera from 1986 to 1989. Appointed to the general surprise on the 12 February 1986 after the resignation of his predecessor, the Italian Massimo Bogianckino elected Florence's mayor, he must have led the house in the very tense context before the opening of Bastille Opera House, characterized by internal battles and significant budget problems.[10][11]

Passionned by contemporary art, he innovated however many times during his mandate:

Opera productions edit

Awards edit

  • "Prix Claude Rostand" for David et Jonathas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier at the Opera Lyon, season 1980/1981[12]
  • "Prix Claude Rostand" for L'incoronazione of Poppea by Monteverdi at the Tourcoing Atelier Lyric, season 1981/1982[12]
  • "Grand Prix de la meilleure production lyrique" for Les Boreades by Jean-Philippe Rameau at the Aix-En-Provence Festival, season 1982/1983[12]
  • "Grand Prix de la meilleure production lyrique" for The marriage of Figaro by Mozart at the Champs-Elysées Theater, season 2001/2002[12]

References edit

  1. ^ Roux, Marie-Aude (8 January 2016). "Le metteur en scène d'opéra Jean-Louis Martinoty est mort". Le Monde. Retrieved 1 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Décès de Jean-Louis Martinoty à 70 ans". Le Figaro. 20 December 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Biographie Jean-Louis Martinoty". Who's who. 12 April 2016.
  4. ^ "La création des boréades de Rameau à Aix-En-Provence". www.ina.fr. 21 July 1982.
  5. ^ "Bringing a picnic to the poltergeist : Don Giovanni in Vienna". www.bachtrack.com. 16 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Décès du metteur en scène d'opéra Jean-Louis Martinoty à 70 ans". La Croix (in French). 2016-01-28. ISSN 0242-6056. Retrieved 2021-02-15.
  7. ^ "Une fête de l'esprit". lesechos.fr. 17 October 2001.
  8. ^ "Un Faust maudit et plombé". www.lefigaro.fr. 29 September 2011.
  9. ^ "Hommage de Fleur Pellerin, Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, à Jean-Louis Martinoty". www.culture.gouv.fr. 28 January 2016.
  10. ^ de Saint-Pulgent, Maryvonne (1991). Le syndrome de l'Opéra. éditions Robert Laffont. pp. Chapitre 12 : Le temps des remises en cause (1984–1988). ISBN 2-221-06625-1.
  11. ^ "Jean-Louis Martinoty 1946-1976". Opéra de Paris Magazine.
  12. ^ a b c d "Les précédents palmarès". Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique de Théâtre, Musique et Danse. 4 March 2016.

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Translated fr Jean Louis Martinoty to the talk page For more guidance see Wikipedia Translation Jean Louis Martinoty 20 January 1946 in Etampes 27 January 2016 in Neuilly sur Seine was a French writer and an opera director 1 2 Renowned for his stagings of baroque operas in the eighties he was also General Administrator of the Paris Opera 1986 1989 Jean Louis Martinoty in 2007 Contents 1 Biography 1 1 General Administrator of the Paris Opera 2 Opera productions 3 Awards 4 ReferencesBiography editJean Louis Martinoty spent his childhood and his teens in Algeria where his father was a tax official In 1961 his parents returned to France and settled in Nice Martinoty studied classical letters and cello He started his professional life as a French teacher for some years then becoming a writer and music critic for the newspaper L Humanite In 1972 he interviewed the stage director Jean Pierre Ponnelle who invited him to come to the Salzburg Festival where he was preparing Mozart s The Marriage of Figaro After replacing Ponnelle for a rehearsal he became his assistant and the writer of the scripts for most of his opera films including La clemenza di Tito Madama Butterfly and Carmina Burana Martinoty made one film himself Pasticcio from Haendel and realized two documentaries about Italian mannerism In 1992 he married Tamara Adloff 3 Jean Louis Martinoty made his first staging in 1975 with Benjamin Britten s A Midsummer s Night Dream at the Strasbourg Opera It was followed by Offenbach s La Perichole The Lyon Opera subsequently asked him to stage two Baroque operas whose music had been forgotten since more than two centuries Cavalli s Ercole Amante 1979 and Charpentier s David et Jonathas 1981 Martinoty continued with numerous other Baroque productions Among his more famous efforts are Monteverdi s L incoronazione di Poppea 1982 with Jean Claude Malgoire and Jean Philippe Rameau s Les Boreades at the Musical Festival of Aix en Provence with John Eliot Gardiner This last opera put on for the first time since 1770 obtained a striking success and the Lyric Grand Prix Review 4 Some years later Martinoty revived Lully s Alceste in a memorable production at the Theatre des Champs Elysees next to Salieri sTarare Cesti s L Argia and Gassmann s L Opera Seria at the Schwetzingen Festival Inspired by his Baroque experiences Martinoty published the book Voyages a l interieur de l opera baroque de Monteverdi a Mozart Travels inside Baroque opera from Monteverdi to Mozart 1990 in which ten opera works are analyzed on dramatic scenographic and political levels His roughly one hundred stagings between 1975 and 2015 feature the whole opera repertory and were presented on both French and international stages Richard Strauss s Ariadne auf Naxos at Covent Garden Wagner s Der Ring des Nibelungen in Karlsruhe Festival for which he designed the sets Offenbach s Orpheus in the Underworld in the Paris Opera Bizet s Carmen in Tokyo Mozart s Don Giovanni in the Wiener Staatsoper 5 etc He also made an excursion into the Viennese operetta with Franz Lehar s The Merry Widow and Johan Strauss s The Gipsy Baron at the Zurich Opera under the musical direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt and even musical comedy with The Little Prince Casino de Paris 2002 based on Saint Exupery s novel with new music by Richard Cocciante Martinoty s strong acting direction his erudite stagings 6 in regular collaboration with the Austrian decorator Hans Schavernoch and the costume designer Daniel Ogier were applauded most of the time such his production Mozart s The Marriage of Figaro which received again Grand Prix of the best lyric production 7 Created in the Champs Elysees Theater in 2001 it was three times taken back during the following seven seasons then in the Wiener Staatsoper where it entered the directory In contrast Gounod s Faust at the Bastille Opera in 2011 with Roberto Alagna in the title role was the object of a salvo of negative criticisms in particular because of the loaded decoration and of his direction considered too kitsch 8 He made a remarked come back in 2012 with Verdi s Macbeth at the Bordeaux National Opera This production was his last staging Jean Louis Martinoty died from the complications of heart surgery in a hospital in Neuilly sur Seine He was just seventy Fleur Pellerin Minister of Culture and Communication honored him in a press release The Opera world is mourning the death of one who was revealed very early as one of the best directors of his generation He was also one of the great administrators of the Paris opera at the same time guardian of the lyrical tradition and visionary open to modernity He was one of those directors whose art is to remain totally at the service of music s great pieces giving us totally to see to allow us to better hear them 9 In October 2017 his friend Jean Ristat published a long elegiac poem about his disappearance Eloge Funebre de Monsieur Martinoty Funeral Praise of Mr Martinoty Jean Louis Martinoty is buried at the cemetery of Joiselle a village in the Marne department where he lived for forty five years General Administrator of the Paris Opera edit Jean Louis Martinoty has been General Administrator of the Paris Opera from 1986 to 1989 Appointed to the general surprise on the 12 February 1986 after the resignation of his predecessor the Italian Massimo Bogianckino elected Florence s mayor he must have led the house in the very tense context before the opening of Bastille Opera House characterized by internal battles and significant budget problems 10 11 Passionned by contemporary art he innovated however many times during his mandate by initiating the Cartes Blanches global show set up around an artist painter or a plastician Karel Appel Arman Bernar Venet by collaborating with painters and plasticians as opera decorators Valerio Adami Olivier Debre Dado practice which was a first at the time and became common thereafter by introducing to the repertory the Czech composer Leos Janacek s two operas produced in parallel in 1988 in Garnier Opera Kat a Kabanova and in Favart Hall From the House of the Dead Between 1986 and 1989 3 operas have been created on the Palais Garnier stage Maurice Ohana s La Celestine in a Jorge Lavelli production Busoni s Doktor Faust and Hork Holler s Le Maitre et Marguerite from the Bugalkov s novel critic s prize in Germany It is also under his mandate in January 1987 that Lully s Atys was produced at the Comic Opera staged by Jean Marie Villegier Opera productions edit1975 A Midsummer s Night Dream by Benjamin Britten Strasbourg Opera 1975 La Perichole by Jacques Offenbach Strasbourg Opera 1978 Idomeneo by Mozart Lyon Opera 1979 Ercole Amante by Francesco Cavalli conductor Michel Corboz Lyon 1980 Semele by Handel Karlsruhe Badisches Staatstheater 1980 Ecouter Mourir music and script Nguyen Thien Dao Avignon Cloitre des Celestins 1981 David et Jonathas by Marc Antoine Charpentier conductor Michel Corboz Lyon Opera 1981 La Boheme by Giacomo Pucchini decors and costumes Pet Halmen Lyon Opera 1982 L incoronazione of Poppea by Monteverdi conductor Jean Claude Malgoire Tourcoing Atelier Lyrique 1982 Les Boreades by Jean Philippe Rameau conductor John Eliot Gardiner Aix En Provence Festival 1983 Racine s by Jean Racine scenography Olivier Debre costumes Daniel Ogier 1984 Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Pucchini conductor Hans Gierster Lyon Opera 1985 Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss conductor Jeffrey Tate decors Hans Schavernoch Covent Garden 1985 L heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel conductor Philippe Nahon decors Arman Opera Comique 1985 Gianni Schicchi by Puccini conductor Marcello Panni decors Hans Schavernoch Opera Comique 1987 The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner conductor Marek Janowski Garnier Opera 1987 Il trittico by Puccini conductor Marcello Panni decors Hans Schavernoch Opera Comique 1988 Orpheus in the Underworld by Offenbach conductor Lothar Zagrosek decors Bernard Arnould Garnier Opera 1988 Tarare by Salieri conductor Jean Claude Malgoire Schwetzingen Festival 1989 Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss conductor Georg Schmohe Champ Elysees Theater 1990 L heure espagnole by Maurice Ravel and El retablo de maese Pedro by Manuel de Falla conductor Jacques Mercier Marseille Opera 1990 The Gipsy Baron by Johann Strauss conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt Zurich Opera 1991 Alceste by Lully conductor Jean Claude Malgoire decors Hans Schavernoch costumes Daniel Ogier Champs Elysees Theater and Royal Opera of Versailles 1993 Mefistofele by Arrigo Boito decors Jacques Brissot Bale Opera 1993 Tamerlano by Georg Friedrich Handel decors Dado Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe 1993 Boris Godunov by Mussorgski conductor Alain Lombard Palais des Sports of Bordeaux 1994 L Opera seria by Leopold Gassmann conductor Rene Jacobs Schwetzingen Festival and Deutsche Oper Berlin 1994 1995 Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner Karlsruhe 1996 L Argia by Cesti conductor Rene Jacobs Innsbruck Festival 1999 La vida breve by Manuel de Falla and Il Tabarro by Puccini decors Hans Schavernoch Marseille opera 2001 La Traviata by Verdi conductor Arthur Fagen Montpellier opera 2001 Juditha triumphans by Vivaldi Montpellier opera 2001 The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart conductor Rene Jacobs decors Hans Schavernoch Champs Elysees theater 2002 Une fete chez Rabelais with the ensemble Clement Janequin Bouffes du Nord and Tourcoing Atelier Lyrique 2002 The little prince by Richard Cocciante decors Hans Schavernoch costumes Jean Charles de Castelbajac Casino de Paris 2003 Don Pasquale from Donizetti conductor Yves Abel Deutsche Oper Berlin 2004 Faust by Gounod conductor Yves Abel Teatro San Carlo of Naples 2005 Bianca e Falliero conductor Renato Palumbo Rossini Festival of Pesaro 2007 Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy conductor Bernard Haitink decors Hans Schavernoch Champs Elysees Theater and Opera de Lille 2008 Thesee by Lully conductor Emmanuelle HaIm decors Hans Schavernoch costumes Daniel Ogier Champs Elysees Theater 2008 Andrea Chenier by Umberto Giordano conductor Paolo Olmi decors Bernard Arnould costumes Daniel Ogier Nancy Opera 2009 Carmen by Georges Bizet conductor Yutaka Sado decors Hans Schavernoch tour in Japan 2010 Don Giovanni by Mozart conductor Franz Welser Most decors Hans Schavernoch Wiener Staatsoper 2011 The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart conductor Franz Welser Most decors Hans Schavernoch Wiener Staatsoper 2011 Faust by Gounod conductor Alain Altinoglu Bastille Opera 2012 Macbeth by Verdi conductor Kwame Ryan decors Bernard Arnould costumes Daniel Ogier Awards edit Prix Claude Rostand for David et Jonathas by Marc Antoine Charpentier at the Opera Lyon season 1980 1981 12 Prix Claude Rostand for L incoronazione of Poppea by Monteverdi at the Tourcoing Atelier Lyric season 1981 1982 12 Grand Prix de la meilleure production lyrique for Les Boreades by Jean Philippe Rameau at the Aix En Provence Festival season 1982 1983 12 Grand Prix de la meilleure production lyrique for The marriage of Figaro by Mozart at the Champs Elysees Theater season 2001 2002 12 References edit Roux Marie Aude 8 January 2016 Le metteur en scene d opera Jean Louis Martinoty est mort Le Monde Retrieved 1 December 2018 Deces de Jean Louis Martinoty a 70 ans Le Figaro 20 December 2018 Retrieved 21 March 2019 Biographie Jean Louis Martinoty Who s who 12 April 2016 La creation des boreades de Rameau a Aix En Provence www ina fr 21 July 1982 Bringing a picnic to the poltergeist Don Giovanni in Vienna www bachtrack com 16 January 2018 Deces du metteur en scene d opera Jean Louis Martinoty a 70 ans La Croix in French 2016 01 28 ISSN 0242 6056 Retrieved 2021 02 15 Une fete de l esprit lesechos fr 17 October 2001 Un Faust maudit et plombe www lefigaro fr 29 September 2011 Hommage de Fleur Pellerin Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication a Jean Louis Martinoty www culture gouv fr 28 January 2016 de Saint Pulgent Maryvonne 1991 Le syndrome de l Opera editions Robert Laffont pp Chapitre 12 Le temps des remises en cause 1984 1988 ISBN 2 221 06625 1 Jean Louis Martinoty 1946 1976 Opera de Paris Magazine a b c d Les precedents palmares Syndicat Professionnel de la Critique de Theatre Musique et Danse 4 March 2016 Portals nbsp opera nbsp theatre nbsp France Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Jean Louis Martinoty amp oldid 1171421556, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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