Theater maker Pierre Audi died – Diepresse.com

The French-Lebanese theater director and director Pierre Audi is dead. As the French Ministry of Culture announced, Audi died on Saturday at the age of 67. Audi was a modern theater maker who worked in particular in France and the Netherlands, but also on stages worldwide.

Audi comes from Beirut, completed his school days in France and studied in Great Britain, where he founded Almeida Theater. From 1988, Audi headed the National Opera in Amsterdam for 30 years until he took over the management of the festival in Aix-en-Provence in 2018. Since 2015 he has also been the artificial director of the Avenue Armory Park from New York. At the same time, Audi staged on the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the opera in Paris, the Vienna State Opera or at the Salzburg Festival.

Macron: Audi stood for « French, European and universal art »

The Dutch king Willem-Alexander and queen Máxima Audi recognized as « a master of the music theater » who knew how to touch many with his ideas, « too ». « As director of the Dutch Opera and the Holland Festival, he gave the Dutch cultural sector a special shine. »

President Emmanuel recognized in Paris Macron and his wife Brigitte The theater maker as « a creator who stood for a French, European and universal art and knew how to weave the treasures of the past and threads of the future for our culture ».