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Olivier Py (French pronunciation: [pi] ; born 24 July 1965 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French stage director, actor and writer.
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Olivier Py (French pronunciation: [pi] ; born 24 July 1965 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French stage director, actor and writer.
In 1997, Py became director of the Centre dramatique national d'Orléans. In 2007, he became director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris. [1]
Py describes himself as Catholic and homosexual. [2] He is known for his emphasis on Catholic and homoerotic themes.
Since the early 2000s, Py has increasingly devoted himself to the opera. His productions of La damnation de Faust , Tannhäuser and Tristan und Isolde , all in Geneva, have generally been well received. In March 2008, he debuted at the Paris Opéra. On this occasion he stated to a French magazine ( Diapason , March 2008) that he "would not be done staging operas until [he] did Wagner's Ring and Parsifal ". [3] [4]
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