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In 1995, he staged ''Faust'' in San Francisco, then made his debut at the ] of New York in 1996, with a new production of '']'' (with Luciano Pavarotti in the title role). In 1998, Joel was active at the ] for '']'', at the ] of Madrid for '']'', at the ] of Palermo for ''Aida'' and at the ] for '']''. In 1999, he started a new production of '']'' at La Scala in Milan. He also covered '']'' and ''Samson and Dalila'' in Los Angeles, ''Roméo et Juliette'' in Chicago and ] in London, and ''Manon'' at the Teatro Real of Madrid (2000). In 2002, he presented a new production of ''La rondine'' at Covent Garden. In 1995, he staged ''Faust'' in San Francisco, then made his debut at the ] of New York in 1996, with a new production of '']'' (with Luciano Pavarotti in the title role). In 1998, Joel was active at the ] for '']'', at the ] of Madrid for '']'', at the ] of Palermo for ''Aida'' and at the ] for '']''. In 1999, he started a new production of '']'' at La Scala in Milan. He also covered '']'' and ''Samson and Dalila'' in Los Angeles, ''Roméo et Juliette'' in Chicago and ] in London, and ''Manon'' at the Teatro Real of Madrid (2000). In 2002, he presented a new production of ''La rondine'' at Covent Garden.


Sur les scènes françaises, il réalise, entre autres, ''Roméo et Juliette'', '']'' and '']'' à Nancy, (revived at the ] in Paris and at the ]), '']'' and '']'' at the ], Debussy's '']'' and Purcell's '']'' with ] at the Paris Opera, ''Faust'' and the world premiere of ]'s ''Montségur'' in Toulouse, ''Andrea Chénier'' at the Opéra du Rhin and the Opéra de Lyon. At the Paris Opera, he presents a new production of ''Un Bal masqué à Paris'' in 1992 and ''Parsifal'' in ] in 1994. In 1987, Joel was invited by the ] for '']'' and returned there for '']'' (1989 and 1994), ''Faust'' (1990), ''Aïda'' (1991 and 2001), ''Carmen'' (1998), ''Roméo et Juliette'' (2002), '']'' (2003) and '']'' (2005). In France, he directed Gounod's '']'', Puccini's '']'' and Massenet's '']'' in Nancy, (revived at the ] in Paris and at the ]), Ponchielli's '']'' and Verdi's '']'' at the ], Debussy's '']'' and Purcell's '']'' with ] at the Paris Opera, Gounod's ''Faust'' and the world premiere of ]'s ''Montségur'' in Toulouse, ''Andrea Chénier'' at the ] and the ]. At the Paris Opera, he staged a new production of ''Un Bal masqué à Paris'' in 1992. He directed Wagner's '']'' in ] in 1994.


From 1990 to 2009, Joel was artistic director of the ]. He produced new performances of '']'', '']'', '']'', ''Eugen Oneguine'', then ''Rigoletto'' and ''Roméo et Juliette'' with ]. For the reopening of the Théâtre du Capitole in 1996, he presented a new production of Charpentier's '']'' and ''Werther''. Among his productions in Toulouse, Wagner's ''Ring'',''Boris Godunov'','']'', ''Louise'', ''Hamlet'' (these last two productions were taken over at the ] in Paris), ''Otello'', '']'' and '']''. He reopened the Théâtre du Capitole, after the renovation of the stage cage, in October 2004, with a new production of '']''. In 1987, Joel was invited by the ] for Wagner's '']'', and returned for Verdi's '']'' (1989 and 1994), ''Faust'' (1990), Verdi's '']'' (1991 and 2001), Bizet's '']'' (1998), ''Roméo et Juliette'' (2002), Verdi's '']'' (2003) and Puccini's '']'' (2005).
From 1990 to 2009, Joel was artistic director of the ].<ref name="Israel" /> He produced new performances of Verdi's '']'' and '']'', '']'' by Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky's '']'', then ''Rigoletto'' and ''Roméo et Juliette'' with ]. For the reopening of the Théâtre du Capitole in 1996, he presented a new production of Charpentier's '']'' and Massenet's '']''. Among his productions in Toulouse, Wagner's ''Ring'',''Boris Godunov'','']'', ''Louise'', ''Hamlet'' (these last two productions were taken over at the ] in Paris), ''Otello'', '']'' and '']''. He reopened the Théâtre du Capitole, after the renovation of the stage cage, in October 2004, with a new production of '']''.


Among his latest engagements are ''Carmen'' at La Scala in Milan, ''Daphne'' at the Vienna Staatsoper, ''Roméo et Juliette'' in Beijing, ''Aida'' in Chicago, '']'' in Palermo in 2004, '']'' in Düsseldorf, (April 2005) and '']'' in Zurich. He has also directed ''Aida'' in Zurich, ''Faust'' at the Vienna State Opera, '']'' in Madrid (2006) and covered ''La rondine'' at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (2008). Among his latest engagements are ''Carmen'' at La Scala in Milan, ''Daphne'' at the Vienna Staatsoper, ''Roméo et Juliette'' in Beijing, ''Aida'' in Chicago, '']'' in Palermo in 2004, '']'' in Düsseldorf, (April 2005) and '']'' in Zurich. He has also directed ''Aida'' in Zurich, ''Faust'' at the Vienna State Opera, '']'' in Madrid (2006) and covered ''La rondine'' at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (2008).


=== Paris Opera === === Paris Opera ===
As from 1 August 2009, he is appointed Director of the ] in replacement of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000020900616&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id|title=Décret du 24 juillet 2009 portant nomination d'un directeur de l'Opéra national de Paris - M. JOEL (Nicolas).|publisher=}}</ref> From 2009, Joel was director of the ], succeeding ].<ref name="Israel" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000020900616&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id|title=Décret du 24 juillet 2009 portant nomination d'un directeur de l'Opéra national de Paris - M. JOEL (Nicolas).|publisher=}}</ref>


In 2011, under his leadership, the institution fulfilled its mission and recorded a successful attendance rate: nearly 800,000 spectators<ref name="Les Echos">{{cite web|url=https://www.lesechos.fr/28/06/2012/LesEchos/21215-114-ECH_l-opera-de-paris-lance-l-exploitation-commerciale-de-sa-marque.htm|title=L'Opéra de Paris lance l'exploitation commerciale de sa marque|website=lesechos.fr}}</ref><ref> .</ref> and a attendance rate of 94.1%, 1.7% higher than in 2010. It has also seen a strong renewal of the public since a quarter of the tickets purchased without a subscription were purchased by new spectators, 65,000 young people were able to attend the shows for less than 25 € and 25,000 schoolchildren were welcomed. In 2011, the institution recorded an attendance rate of nearly 800,000 spectators,<ref name="Les Echos">{{cite web|url=https://www.lesechos.fr/28/06/2012/LesEchos/21215-114-ECH_l-opera-de-paris-lance-l-exploitation-commerciale-de-sa-marque.htm|title=L'Opéra de Paris lance l'exploitation commerciale de sa marque|website=lesechos.fr}}</ref><ref> .</ref> 94.1%, 1.7% higher than in 2010.<!-- It has also seen a strong renewal of the public since a quarter of the tickets purchased without a subscription were purchased by new spectators, 65,000 young people were able to attend the shows for less than 25 € and 25,000 schoolchildren were welcomed. --> 351 opera and ballet performances wer given that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operadeparis.fr/Newsletter/pdfs/Brochure_Opera_national_de_Paris_en_2011.pdf|title=Rapport d'activité 2011 (page 8).|publisher=}}</ref> While standard repertoire was performed, contemporary opera appeared in ]'s ''Akhmatova'', {{ill|Jean-Guillaume Bart|fr}}'s ballet ''La Source'', ]'s ''Psyché'' and ]'s ''L'Anatomie de la sensation''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operadeparis.fr/Newsletter/pdfs/Brochure_Opera_national_de_Paris_en_2011.pdf|title=Rapport d'activité 2011 (pages 10 and 11).|publisher=}}</ref>
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⚫ The Paris Opera is now a successful cultural company with a positive result of €5.5 million<ref name="Les Echos"/> thanks to an increase in its own resources. This result made it possible to reduce the amount of tickets sold for opera in the popular categories by €5.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2012/01/11/03006-20120111ARTFIG00571-l-opera-national-de-paris-baisse-le-prix-de-ses-places.php|title=L'Opéra national de Paris baisse le prix de ses places|date=11 January 2012|website=FIGARO}}</ref> et permet de maintenir un niveau de subvention stable<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.challenges.fr/entreprise/20120621.CHA7832/l-opera-de-paris-va-presenter-des-resultats-triomphants.html|title=L'Opéra de Paris va présenter des résultats triomphants|publisher=}}</ref><ref></ref> over the past three years, which does not exceed 55 % of revenue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operadeparis.fr/Newsletter/pdfs/Brochure_Opera_national_de_Paris_en_2011.pdf|title=Rapport d'activité 2011 (Tableau en Annexe).|publisher=}}</ref> -->


⚫ In October 2012, Joel announced that he would not stand for another term, after learning of the Opera's budgetary trajectory for the coming years.<!-- This meant a 2.5% reduction in subsidies in 2013, both in 2014 and 2015. In addition to all this, in 2013 a drawdown of 3.7 million from the Opera's financial reserves was made.--><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Spectacle/Actualite/Nicolas-Joel-renonce-a-l-Opera-de-Paris-565428|title=Nicolas Joel renonce à l’Opéra de Paris|website=lejdd.fr|date= 6 October 2012 |author=Danielle Attali |accessdate = 3 December 2018}}</ref> In September 2013, Joel announced his resignation one years early, for August 2014. He was succeeded by ].<ref>, '']'', 10 September 2013.</ref>
2011 was also a great year for the Paris Opera in terms of programming, with 351 opera and ballet performances.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operadeparis.fr/Newsletter/pdfs/Brochure_Opera_national_de_Paris_en_2011.pdf|title=Rapport d'activité 2011 (page 8).|publisher=}}</ref> In the midst of the jewels of the repertoire, a strong place has once again been made for contemporary creation with ]'s opera ''Akhmatova'' and {{ill|Jean-Guillaume Bart|fr}}'s ballet ''La Source'', ]'s ''Psyché'' and ]'s ''L’Anatomie de la sensation''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operadeparis.fr/Newsletter/pdfs/Brochure_Opera_national_de_Paris_en_2011.pdf|title=Rapport d'activité 2011 (pages 10 and 11).|publisher=}}</ref>

⚫ The Paris Opera is now a successful cultural company with a positive result of €5.5 million<ref name="Les Echos"/> thanks to an increase in its own resources. This result made it possible to reduce the amount of tickets sold for opera in the popular categories by €5.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2012/01/11/03006-20120111ARTFIG00571-l-opera-national-de-paris-baisse-le-prix-de-ses-places.php|title=L'Opéra national de Paris baisse le prix de ses places|date=11 January 2012|website=FIGARO}}</ref> et permet de maintenir un niveau de subvention stable<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.challenges.fr/entreprise/20120621.CHA7832/l-opera-de-paris-va-presenter-des-resultats-triomphants.html|title=L'Opéra de Paris va présenter des résultats triomphants|publisher=}}</ref><ref></ref> over the past three years, which does not exceed 55 % of revenue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.operadeparis.fr/Newsletter/pdfs/Brochure_Opera_national_de_Paris_en_2011.pdf|title=Rapport d'activité 2011 (Tableau en Annexe).|publisher=}}</ref>

⚫ In October 2012, Joel announced that he would no longer be a candidate for his own succession after learning of the Opera's budgetary trajectory for the coming years. This meant a 2.5% reduction in subsidies in 2013, both in 2014 and 2015. In addition to all this, in 2013 a drawdown of 3.7 million from the Opera's financial reserves was made.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lejdd.fr/Culture/Spectacle/Actualite/Nicolas-Joel-renonce-a-l-Opera-de-Paris-565428|title=Nicolas Joel renonce à l’Opéra de Paris|website=lejdd.fr|date= 6 October 2012 |author=Danielle Attali |accessdate = 3 December 2018}}</ref> It was finally announced in September 2013 that Joel will retire one year before the deadline, in August 2014: he was replaced as director by ].<ref>, '']'', 10 September 2013.</ref>


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Nicolas Joel (or Joël) (born 6 February 1953) is a French theatre director and administrator of opera houses. He was director of the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse from 1990 to 2009 and then director of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014.

Career

Early life

Joel was born in Paris, where he studied. In 1973, he was hired at the Opéra du Rhin (Strasbourg) as assistant director, a position he held until 1978 in Strasbourg, at the Bayreuth Festival, the Salzburg Festival, and the San Francisco Opera. In 1979, he began his directing career with a production of Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Rhine and Lyon operas. In 1981, he directed Samson et Dalila with Shirley Verrett and Placido Domingo in San Francisco, then Aida with Luciano Pavarotti in San Francisco, Chicago, and Toronto.

He directed a second "Ring" for the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Aida at the Vienna State Opera, Poulenc's La Voix humaine, Ernani and Parsifal in San Francisco, Lohengrin in Copenhagen, Eugene Onegin, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in Amsterdam and Gothenburg, Rigoletto and La Traviata in Zurich, Salomé in Essen, Boris Godunov and I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Bremen, Orpheus in the Underworld in Lausanne. He also directed Tosca in Lausanne for José van Dam's debut as Scarpia. In 1994, he made his debut at La Scala in Milan with Puccini's La rondine, then took over Gounod's Romeo and Juliet at Covent Garden and set up Carmen at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

In 1995, he staged Faust in San Francisco, then made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera of New York in 1996, with a new production of Andrea Chénier (with Luciano Pavarotti in the title role). In 1998, Joel was active at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for Les Pêcheurs de perles, at the Teatro Real of Madrid for Un ballo in maschera, at the Teatro Massimo of Palermo for Aida and at the Metropolitan Opera for Lucia di Lammermoor. In 1999, he started a new production of Manon at La Scala in Milan. He also covered Werther and Samson and Dalila in Los Angeles, Roméo et Juliette in Chicago and Covent Garden in London, and Manon at the Teatro Real of Madrid (2000). In 2002, he presented a new production of La rondine at Covent Garden.

In France, he directed Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Puccini's Turandot and Massenet's Thaïs in Nancy, (revived at the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in Paris and at the Capitole de Toulouse), Ponchielli's La Gioconda and Verdi's Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Opéra national de Montpellier, Debussy's La Damoiselle élue and Purcell's Dido and Æneas with Jessye Norman at the Paris Opera, Gounod's Faust and the world premiere of Marcel Landowski's Montségur in Toulouse, Andrea Chénier at the Opéra du Rhin and the Opéra de Lyon. At the Paris Opera, he staged a new production of Un Bal masqué à Paris in 1992. He directed Wagner's Parsifal in Nice in 1994.

In 1987, Joel was invited by the Chorégies d'Orange for Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, and returned for Verdi's Nabucco (1989 and 1994), Faust (1990), Verdi's Aïda (1991 and 2001), Bizet's Carmen (1998), Roméo et Juliette (2002), Verdi's Otello (2003) and Puccini's La bohème (2005).

From 1990 to 2009, Joel was artistic director of the Capitole de Toulouse. He produced new performances of Verdi's Falstaff and Il trovatore, Elektra by Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, then Rigoletto and Roméo et Juliette with Roberto Alagna. For the reopening of the Théâtre du Capitole in 1996, he presented a new production of Charpentier's Louise and Massenet's Werther. Among his productions in Toulouse, Wagner's Ring,Boris Godunov,La forza del destino, Louise, Hamlet (these last two productions were taken over at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris), Otello, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the Magic Flute. He reopened the Théâtre du Capitole, after the renovation of the stage cage, in October 2004, with a new production of Jenůfa.

Among his latest engagements are Carmen at La Scala in Milan, Daphne at the Vienna Staatsoper, Roméo et Juliette in Beijing, Aida in Chicago, Sicilian Vespers in Palermo in 2004, La Wally in Düsseldorf, (April 2005) and La Forza del destino in Zurich. He has also directed Aida in Zurich, Faust at the Vienna State Opera, The Tales of Hoffmann in Madrid (2006) and covered La rondine at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (2008).

Paris Opera

From 2009, Joel was director of the Paris Opera, succeeding Gerard Mortier.

In 2011, the institution recorded an attendance rate of nearly 800,000 spectators, 94.1%, 1.7% higher than in 2010. 351 opera and ballet performances wer given that year. While standard repertoire was performed, contemporary opera appeared in Bruno Mantovani's Akhmatova, Jean-Guillaume Bart [fr]'s ballet La Source, Alexei Ratmansky's Psyché and Wayne McGregor's L'Anatomie de la sensation.

In October 2012, Joel announced that he would not stand for another term, after learning of the Opera's budgetary trajectory for the coming years. In September 2013, Joel announced his resignation one years early, for August 2014. He was succeeded by Stéphane Lissner.

Family

Joel is the brother of conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak.

Awards

Joel has twice received the Drama and Music Critics Award for his lyrical productions, as well as a Victoire de la Musique in 1996, in the category "Best Lyrical Production" for Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites.

Joel was a chevalier (knight) of the Legion of Honour since 2004, and became its officer in 2014.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ "Décret du 31 décembre 2014 portant promotion et nomination" (in French). Legion of Honour. 2015. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Joel Nicolas, director". Israeli Opera. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  3. "Décret du 24 juillet 2009 portant nomination d'un directeur de l'Opéra national de Paris - M. JOEL (Nicolas)".
  4. "L'Opéra de Paris lance l'exploitation commerciale de sa marque". lesechos.fr.
  5. Tribune de Nicolas Joel sur Le Monde.
  6. "Rapport d'activité 2011 (page 8)" (PDF).
  7. "Rapport d'activité 2011 (pages 10 and 11)" (PDF).
  8. Danielle Attali (6 October 2012). "Nicolas Joel renonce à l'Opéra de Paris". lejdd.fr. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  9. Opéra de Paris : Nicolas Joel jette l'éponge, Le Figaro, 10 September 2013.
  10. Emmanuel Joel-Hornak ForumOpera

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Preceded byGérard Mortier Director of the Paris Opera
2009-2014 		Succeeded byStéphane Lissner
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