STAGE TUBE: First Look at Trailer for Paris Opera's 'Virtual Third Stage'

Today, the Paris Opera will expand on to a third 'virtual' stage called 3e Scène. Stéphane Lissner, the director of the Paris Opera, called it "an autonomous venue for digital creation." Check out the trailer below!

Stéphane Lissner led throughout his career theaters, festivals and opera houses in France and Europe.
He gets his first play at the age of sixteen and then created, eighteen years old, his own theater in a room in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, the Mechanical Theatre, where he worked especially with Alain Francon and Bernard Sobel between 1972 and 1975. He held all trades: stage manager, electrician, author or yet director.
He was then appointed General Secretary of the National Drama Centre in Aubervilliers (1977-1978) and co-directs the National Drama Centre Nice until 1983. In 1984-1985 he taught management of cultural institutions to University Paris-Dauphine. From 1984 to 1987 he directed the Paris Spring Festival theater. He is a director of the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris Musical Theatre) in 1983 and then was appointed General Manager in 1988. He remained ten years in parallel while assuming the general direction of the Orchestre de Paris (1993-1995).
From 1998 to 2006, he became head of the International Opera Festival of Aix-en-Provence. He created the European Academy of Music, a festival conceived as the extension to the teaching and promotion of young talent.
In parallel, he co-directs with Peter Brook the Bouffes du Nord Theatre between 1998 and 2005. In 2002, Partners with Frédéric Franck to resume the Théâtre de la Madeleine, which he left in 2011.
From 2005 to 2014, he became superintendent and artistic director of the Teatro della Scala. He is the first non-Italian director. From 2005 to 2013, it is also music director of the Wiener Festwochen in Austria.
During his career he has worked with leading conductors, directors and choreographers including Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, William Christie, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen ...; Luc Bondy, Stéphane Braunschweig, Patrice Chéreau, Klaus-Michael Grüber, Claus Guth, Mario Martone, Peter Sellars, Peter Stein, Dmitry Chernyakov, Robert Wilson ...; Pina Bausch, William Forsythe ...
Named Managing Director of the Paris National Opera in October 2012, he took office on 1 August 2014. Stéphane Lissner is a knight of the Legion of Honour, Officer of the National Order of Merit and the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

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