Laurent Pelly (born 14 January 1962 in Paris ) is a French opera and theatre director. He is sought after by the world's most prestigious houses. With a natural affinity for Italian and French repertoire, his creative curiosity has also led him towards other composers, including Russian and Czech. He brings theatrical insight to his work with singers and his concepts often contain surreal invention and a dark sense of humour. A master of detail, he underlines his interpretation of characters through skilful and inspired costume designs.
21-11406: In 1980 (at the age of 18) he founded the Compagnie Théâtrale du Pélican which, from 1982, he co-directed with Agathe Mélinand . In 1994, he became an artist in association with Le Centre Dramatique National des Alpes (CDNA) , Grenoble being appointed director from 1997 to 2007. From 2008 to 2018 he was co-director, with Agathe Mélinand , of Théâtre national de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées (TNT) . Many of Laurent Pelly's productions have been filmed for DVD and broadcast on worldwide television. 1977 : L'Ombre by Evguéni Schwartz, Théâtre Daniel Sorano Vincennes 1980 : Si jamais je te pince !... by Eugène Labiche, Théâtre Daniel Sorano Vincennes 1982 : Le Dîner bourgeois by Henry Monnier, Théâtre Daniel Sorano Vincennes 1983 : Le Dîner bourgeois by Henry Monnier, Théâtre de la Plaine 1984 : Chambres calmes vue sur la mer by Michel Jourdheuil, Théâtre de la Plaine 1984 : En cas de pluie by Philippe Beglia 1984 : Quel amour d'enfant ! by Comtesse de Ségur 1984 : Comment ça va ? Au secours ! by Vladimir Maïakovski 1984 : Comment j'ai écrit certains de mes livres by Raymond Roussel 1986 : Chat en poche by Georges Feydeau , Centre dramatique national de Béthune 1987 : Chat en poche by Georges Feydeau , Théâtre Firmin Gémier Antony 1989 : Madame Angot by Maillot, Théâtre national de Chaillot 1990 : Un cœur sous une soutane-Tentative de commémoration production based upon Arthur Rimbaud, Théâtre national de Chaillot 1991 : Eva Perón by Copi, Théâtre national de Chaillot 1994 : Talking Heads by Alan Bennett, Théâtre Paris-Villette 1994 : La Famille Fenouillard by Christophe 1995 : L'Heureux Stratagème by Marivaux 1996 : En caravane by Elizabeth von Arnim, Théâtre Paris-Villette 1996 : La Baye by Philippe Adrien 1996 : La Danse de mort by August Strindberg 1997 : Souingue! 1998 : Et Vian! En avant la zique! 1998 : Loretta Strong by Copi 2001 : C'est pas la vie ? by Laurent Pelly and Agathe Mélinand, Théâtre de Sartrouville 2002 : Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon by Eugène Labiche 2002 : J'en ai marre de l'amour 2003 : Vendre by Laurent Pelly and Agathe Mélinand 2003 : Les Chaises by Eugène Ionesco, Théâtre de la Criée 2004 : Le Roi nu by Evguéni Schwartz 2005 : Foi, amour, espérance by Ödön von Horváth 2005 : I cosmonauti russi 2006 : Le Songe byAugust Strindberg 2006 : Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles by Lewis Carroll 2006 : Une visite inopportune by Copi, Théâtre de l'Ouest parisien 2006 : Les Malices de Plick et Plock by Christophe, Théâtre de Sartrouville 2008 : Le Roi nu byEvguéni Schwartz 2008 : Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles by Lewis Carroll 2008 : Jacques ou la soumission and L'avenir est dans les œufs by Eugène Ionesco, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet 2008 : Le Menteur by Carlo Goldoni 2009 : Renseignements généraux by Serge Valletti 2009 : Talking Heads by Alan Bennett, Théâtre du Rond-Point, Théâtre Marigny 2009 : Cami la vie drôle ! by Pierre Henri Cami 2009 : Natalie Dessay , songs by Michel Legrand 2010 : Le Roi nu by Evguéni Schwartz, Théâtre de la Tempête 2010 : Mille francs de récompense by Victor Hugo 2010 : Funérailles d'hiver by Hanoch Levin 2011 : Les Aventures de Sindbad le Marin by Agathe Mélinand 2011 : J'ai examiné une ampoule électrique et j'en ai été satisfait, script by Daniil Harms 2012 : Macbeth by William Shakespeare 2013 : Mangeront-ils ? by Victor Hugo 2014 : Songe d'une nuit d'été de William Shakespeare 2015 : L'Oiseau vert de Carlo Gozzi 2016 : La Cantatrice chauve de Eugène Ionesco 2017 : Les Oiseaux d'Aristophane 2017 : Sur la tête - Jacques Prévert 1995 : Peines d'amour perdues by William Shakespeare 2011: Mille francs de récompense by Victor Hugo== 1997 : Des Héros et des dieux from Hymnes homériques 1998 : Vie et mort du roi Jean by William Shakespeare 2011 : L'Opéra de quat'sous by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill 2013: Macbeth by William Shakespeare 2021 : Harvey by Mary Chase , TNP-VilleurbanneLyon , Théâtre du Rond Point Paris and on tour 2022 : L'Imprésario de Smyrne /Scènes de la vie d'Opéra by Goldoni Théâtre Le Vilar Louvain-la-Neuve , Théâtre Royal du Parc Brussels, L'Athenée Théâtre Louis Jouvet Paris and on tour 2023 : Objet Inanimés after Hans Christian Andersen on tour Bourgogne-Franche-Comté 1997 : Orphée aux Enfers, by Jacques Offenbach, Lyon and Genève 1999 : Platée, by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Opéra national de Paris. Revival: Santa Fe Opera 2000 : La Belle Hélène, by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. Revival: English National Opera, Santa Fe Opera 2001 : Les Sept Péchés capitaux, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, Opéra national de Paris 2002 : La Périchole, by Jacques Offenbach, Opéra de Marseille 2003, 2004 : Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss, Opéra national de Paris 2003 : Les Contes d'Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach, Lausanne Opera, Opéra de Lyon 2004 : La Grande-duchesse de Gérolstein, by Jacques Offenbach, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. Revival: Grand Théâtre de Genève 2004 : Les Boréades, by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Opéra de Lyon 2004 : L'heure espagnole, by Maurice Ravel / Gianni Schicchi, by Puccini, Opéra national de Paris. Revival: Seiji Ozawa Festival 2006 : Le Roi malgré lui, by Emmanuel Chabrier, Opéra de Lyon 2006 : L'Amour des trois oranges, by Sergey Prokofiev, Dutch National Opera. Revival: Theater Essen 2006 : Cendrillon, by Jules Massenet, Santa Fe Opera 2006 : L'élisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti, Opéra national de Paris. Co-production Royal Opera House, London. Revival: Maarinsky Theatre 2007 : La fille du régiment, by Donizetti, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Co-production Wiener Staatsoper, Metropolitan Opera new York. Revival: Opéra national de Paris, Teatro Real Madrid, Teatr de la Maestranza Seville, Chicago Lyric Opera 2007 : La vie parisienne, by Jacques Offenbach, Opéra de Lyon Revival: TNT Théâtre de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées 2007 : La finta semplice, by Mozart, Theater an der Wien 2007 : Le château de Barbe-Bleue, by Béla Bartók, Opéra de Lyon 2007 : Parlez-moi d'amour, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (staged songs with Felicity Lott) 2007 : La voix humaine, by Francis Poulenc, Opéra de Lyon 2008 : Hänsel und Gretel, by Humperdinck, Glyndebourne Festival Revival: Opéra de Lyon, Teatro Real Madrid, Seattle Opera 2009 : Pelléas et Mélisande, by Claude Debussy Theater an der Wien 2009 : La traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, Santa Fe Opera, Revival: Teatro Massimo, Palermo, Teatro Regio Turin 2009 : Le Roi malgré lui, by Emmanuel Chabrier, Opéra-Comique, Paris 2010 : Manon, by Jules Massenet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Co-production Teatro all Scala Milan, Metropolitan Opera New York, Grand Théâtre du Capitôle de Toulouse 2010 : Don Quichotte, by Jules Massenet, La Monnaie/de Munt 2011 : Giulio Cesare, by Handel, Opéra national de Paris. Revival: Teatro Regio Turin, NNTT Tokyo 2011 : Cendrillon, by Jules Massenet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Co-production La Monnaie Brussels , Opéra de Lille. Revivals: Chicago Lyric Opera, Metropolitan Opera New York, Teatro Real Madrid, National Taichung Theatre Taiwan 2012 : L'enfant et les sortilèges/L'heure espagnol, by Ravel, Glyndebourne Festival. Revival: Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, Teatro alla Scala Milan 2012 : Robert le Diable, by Meyerbeer, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 2013 : Les contes d'Hoffmann, by Jacques Offenbach, Opéra de Lyon. Co-production Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, San Francisco Opera. Revival Deutsche Oper Berlin 2013 : I Puritani, by Bellini, Opéra national de Paris (Bastille) 2014 : Le Comte Ory, by Rossini, Opéra de Lyon. Co-production Tearo alla Scala Milan 2014 : Don Pasquale, by Donizetti, Santa Fe Opera, Co-production Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, San Francisco Opera. Revival La Monnaie Brussels 2014 : L'Étoile, by Emmanuel Chabrier, Dutch National Opera 2015 : Le Roi Carotte, by Jacques Offenbach, l'Opéra de Lyon. Revival": Opéra de Lille 2016 : Le médecin malgré lui, By Gounod, Théâtre des nations, Geneva 2016 : Béatrice et Bénédict, by Hector Berlioz, Glyndebourne Festival 2016 : Le Coq d'or, by Rimski Korsakov, La Monnaie/de Munt. Co-production Teatro Real Madrid, Opéran national de Lorraine 2017 : Viva la mamma! by Donizetti, Opéra de Lyon. Co-production Teatro Real Madrid, Grand Théâtre de Genève (Théâtre des Nations) 2017 : Il barbiere di Siviglia, by Rossini, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Co-production Opéra de Marseille, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Edinburgh Festival, Opéra national de Bordeaux 2018 : Candide de Leonard Bernstein à L'Opéra de Santa Fé 2018 : Lucia di Lammermoor, by Donizetti, Philadelphia Opera. Co-production Vienna State Opera 2019 : Falstaff, by Verdi, Teatro Real, Madrid, Co-production Nikikai Opera Foundation, La Monnaie Brussels 2019 : Barbe bleue, by Jacques Offenbach, Opéra de Lyon. Co-production Opéra de Marseille 2019 : La Cenerentola by Rossini, Dutch National Opera. Co-production Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia. Revival: Los Angeles Opera 2021 : Il nozze di Figaro by Mozart, Santa Fe Opera [archive] . Revival: Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival 2021 : Cendrillon by Massenet, Metropolitan Opera New York (new holiday version, new english translation) 2022 : Cosí fan tutte by Mozart, Théâtre des Champs Elysés, Paris. Coproduction Nikikai Opera Foundation 2022 : A Midsummer Night's Dream by Britten, Opéra de Lille 2022 : La Voix Humaine / Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Poulenc, Glyndebourne Festival 2022 : Lakmé by Delibes, Opéra Comique. Co-production Opéra national du Rhin 2022 : La Périchole by Offenbach, Théâtre des Champs Elysées. Co-production Opéra de Dijon 2023 : Le Voyage dans la Lune by Offenbach, Opéra Comique. Co-production Greek National Opera. Revival: Vienna Volksoper 2023 : Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, La Monnaie, Bruxelles. Co-production Royal Danish Opera [archive] , Copenhagen 2023 : Il Turco in Italia by Donizetti, Teatro Real, Madrid 2024 : Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Wagner, Teatro Real, Madrid 2024 : Le Chauve Souris by Johann Strauss, Opéra de Lille== Agathe M%C3%A9linand From Misplaced Pages,
42-528: A Best Supporting Actress Oscar in the film. Ruth McDevitt , Marion Lorne , Helen Hayes , and Swoosie Kurtz , among other actresses, also portrayed Veta either onstage or on television. Stewart was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for the film version, but lost to Jose Ferrer for Cyrano de Bergerac . In 1945, Chase won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for Harvey . She is the only Coloradan to have won
63-711: A circus clown. In 1921, she graduated from West High School in Denver and spent two years studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver without getting a degree. In 1924, Chase began her career as a journalist on the Denver Times and Rocky Mountain News . She left the News (which the Denver Times was folded into in 1926) in 1931 to write plays, do freelance reporting work, and raise
84-502: A college academic counselor in New York City, and wrote the play Cinderella Wore Combat Boots . While working on the musical adaptation, Say Hello to Harvey , in 1981, Mary Coyle Chase suffered a heart attack at her home in Denver and died at the age of 75. In August 2009, Steven Spielberg announced that he was planning a remake of Harvey , with Tom Hanks or Will Smith playing Elwood Dowd. By December he had abandoned
105-583: A family. At the News , she started writing on the society pages, but soon became a feature writer, reporting the news from a sob sister , emotional angle, becoming part of the news itself as a comic figure, "our Lil' Mary", or writing funny, flapper era pieces as part of a series of "Charlie & Mary" stories (Charlie Wunder drew the cartoons and Mary wrote the text). In the 1920s, reporters typically worked in The Front Page tradition: putting in long hours, drinking hard, and stopping at nothing to beat
126-831: A fellow reporter at the Rocky Mountain News . Bob Chase was a seasoned, "hard news" reporter, having worked at the Denver Express since 1922, covering the robbery of the US Mint and fighting against the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado state and local politics. The Express eventually merged with the Rocky Mountain News and Bob Chase went on to a 47-year newspaper career at the paper, becoming managing editor and then associate editor. He
147-730: A practical joke that she played upon an unsuspecting editor. After leaving the News , in the 1930s Chase worked as a freelance correspondent for the United Press and the International News Service. But her true love had always been the theater, so she began to write plays. In 1936, her first play, Me Third , was produced at the Baker Federal Theater in Denver as a project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In
168-559: A three-week run. In 1950, Harvey was made into a Universal Studios film, starring James Stewart, with Chase collaborating with Oscar Brodney in writing the screenplay. In 1952 and 1953, she launched Bernardine and Mrs McThing on Broadway; both were moderately successful. Bernardine was made into a 1957 film starring Pat Boone and Janet Gaynor (in Gaynor's last film role). In 1958 and 1968, she wrote two children's stories, Loretta Mason Potts and The Wicked, Wicked Ladies in
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210-459: The working class Baker neighborhood of Denver, not far from the railroad tracks. She was greatly influenced by the Irish myths related to her by her mother, Mary Coyle, and her four uncles, Timothy, James, John, and Peter. Charlie Coyle, her older brother, had a strong impact on her sense of comedy, as she imitated his natural gifts at mimicry, one-liners, and comic routines. He went on to become
231-529: The Haunted House . A 1961 production of her play, Midgie Purvis , starring Tallulah Bankhead , flopped. A 1970 Harvey revival, starring James Stewart and Helen Hayes, was successful and ran for 79 performances while a 1981 musical adaptation of Harvey , entitled Say Hello to Harvey , failed after a six-week run amid negative reviews in Toronto. In 1928, Mary Coyle married Robert L. (Bob) Chase,
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#1732801739579252-832: The Information Director for the National Youth Administration in Denver, doing volunteer work for the Colorado Foundation for the Advancement of Spanish Speaking Peoples, and working as the publicity director for the Denver branch of the Teamsters Union . During this time, she was working on the play Harvey , which was very difficult for her to write and which went through numerous revisions, taking her two years to finish. On November 1, 1944, it opened on Broadway and
273-562: The Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and, in a field dominated by men, was the fourth woman to win the award, after Zona Gale (1921), Susan Glaspell (1931), and Zoe Akins (1935). From 1917 to 2013, only 14 women have won the Pulitzer in Drama. Immediately after Harvey , Chase tried to repeat her success on Broadway with The Next Half Hour , a play based on an autobiographical novel she had written called The Banshee . It failed after
294-562: The competition to a story. Running around Denver with photographer Harry Rhoads in a Model T Ford , she recalled, "In the course of a day, Harry and I might begin at the Police Court, go to a murder trial at the West Side Court, cover a party in the evening at Mrs. Crawford Hill's mansion, and rush to a shooting at 11pm." She ended her journalistic career writing in the society pages where she had begun, perhaps as punishment for
315-442: The first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe_Mélinand " Mary Chase (playwright) Mary Chase ( née Mary Agnes McDonough Coyle ; February 25, 1906 – October 20, 1981)
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357-514: The project, the main reason being the difficulty of finding a star to play the lead role. Tom Hanks was not interested in walking in the shoes of the beloved, iconic star James Stewart. Robert Downey Jr. was in the mix for several months, but he wanted changes to the script and Spielberg decided to pull the plug. On June 14, 2012, the Roundabout Theatre Company opened its Broadway revival of Harvey to positive reviews at
378-438: The spring of 1937, the play opened on Broadway, renamed as Now You've Done It , but it failed to attract positive reviews and closed down after three weeks. In 1938, she wrote Chi House , which was made into a Hollywood film by RKO Radio Pictures called Sorority House (1939), starring Anne Shirley of Anne of Green Gables fame. In the early 1940s, she had a series of government, volunteer, and union jobs, serving as
399-578: Was a founding member in 1936 (and named vice-president) of the Denver chapter of the American Newspaper Guild, a national labor union representing editors and reporters. In 1932, their first son, Michael, was born, followed by Colin in 1935, and then Barry Jerome (Jerry) in 1937. Michael became the director of public television in New York, Colin was a professor of English literature at the University of Toronto , and Jerry worked as
420-634: Was a smash hit, running for four and a half years, 1,775 performances, closing on January 15, 1949. Harvey became the 35th longest-running show (musicals and plays) in Broadway history and, if only plays are counted, the sixth longest-running Broadway play (after Life with Father , Tobacco Road , Abie's Irish Rose , Deathtrap , and Gemini ). Frank Fay and James Stewart were the most famous actors to portray Elwood P. Dowd. Josephine Hull portrayed his increasingly concerned (and socially obsessed) sister Veta Simmons on Broadway originally, and won
441-665: Was an American journalist , playwright and children's novelist, known primarily for writing the 1944 Broadway play Harvey , which was adapted into the 1950 film starring James Stewart . She wrote fourteen plays, two children's novels, and one screenplay, and worked seven years at the Rocky Mountain News as a journalist. Three of her plays were made into Hollywood films: Sorority House (1939), Harvey (1950), and Bernardine (1957). Born Mary Agnes McDonough Coyle in Denver, Colorado , in 1906, Chase remained in Denver her entire life. Of Irish Catholic descent, she grew up in
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