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

Career

Joel was born in Paris, where he studied. In 1973, he was hired at the Opéra du Rhin (Strasbourg) as assistant director, and remained to 1978.. In 1976, Patrice Chéreau called him as assistant for the production of the Jahrhundertring for the centenary of the at the Bayreuth Festival. In 1979, he began his own directing career with a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Opéra du Rhin and the Opéra de Lyon. In 1981, he directed Samson et Dalila at the San Francisco Opera, with Shirley Verrett and Placido Domingo in the leading roles, and Verdi's Aida at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, with Luciano Pavarotti.

He directed a second Ring for the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Aida at the Vienna State Opera in 1984, Verdi's Ernani and Wagner's Parsifal in San Francisco, Wagner's Lohengrin in Copenhagen, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in Amsterdam and Gothenburg, Verdi's Rigoletto, La traviata and La forza del destino at the Opernhaus Zürich, Salomé by Richard Strauss in Essen, and Mussorgski's Boris Godunov and Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Theater Bremen. He also directed Puccini's 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. He staged Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the Royal Opera House in London, and Bizet's Carmen at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

In 1995, he staged Faust in San Francisco. 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.

Joel made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera of New York in 1996 with Andrea Chénier, again with Pavarotti. He staged Carmen at La Scala in Milan, Daphne at the Vienna State Opera in 2004, Roméo et Juliette in Beijing, Sicilian Vespers in Palermo in 2004, La Wally in Düsseldorf, (April 2005) and La Forza del destino in Zurich. He directed Aida at the Opernahus Zürich, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann in Madrid in 2006, Puccini's La rondine at the Metropolitan Opera in 2008, and Faust at the Vienna State Opera the same year.

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. ^ "An Interview with Nicolas Joel of the Paris Opera". France Today. 11 September 2010. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  3. "Nicolas Joel neuer Pariser Opernchef" (in German). Der Tagesspiegel. 1 December 2006. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  4. ^ "Vorstellungen mit Nicolas Joël" (in German). Vienna State Opera. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Nicolas Joel". stagedoor.it. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Joel Nicolas, director". Israeli Opera. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  7. "Décret du 24 juillet 2009 portant nomination d'un directeur de l'Opéra national de Paris - M. JOEL (Nicolas)".
  8. "L'Opéra de Paris lance l'exploitation commerciale de sa marque". lesechos.fr.
  9. Tribune de Nicolas Joel sur Le Monde.
  10. "Rapport d'activité 2011 (page 8)" (PDF).
  11. "Rapport d'activité 2011 (pages 10 and 11)" (PDF).
  12. Danielle Attali (6 October 2012). "Nicolas Joel renonce à l'Opéra de Paris". lejdd.fr. Retrieved 3 December 2018.
  13. Opéra de Paris : Nicolas Joel jette l'éponge, Le Figaro, 10 September 2013.
  14. 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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