Director

Alixe Durand Saint Guillaine

Rigoletto

Biography

Alixe is a freelance stage director, opera singer and writer, based in Leipzig and Geneva. She has worked as a revival and assistant director in several European opera houses, such as the Opéra national de Lorraine, the Théâtre de la Croix Rousse (France), the Opéra de Lausanne, the Konzert und Theater St. Gallen (Switzerland) and Irish National Opera (Ireland). A frequent collaborator of Julien Chavaz, she also worked with Anthony Almeida, Jean Lacornerie and Pinar Karabulut, among others. For her own projects, she experiments with interdisciplinary forms. In 2022, she wrote and created the sound installation “Lucy” with Ellinor Blixt, exhibited at Stockholm University of the Arts, and in 2018, she presented the performance J’expérimente avec de la matière humaine mais je ne la mange pas at the Palais Bondy, Lyon. Since 2023, she is part of the performing arts collective operationderkuenste, with whom she staged Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald at the TD Berlin. She graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts with a Master of Opera Vocal Performance and from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 with a Master of Philosophy, specialised in Aesthetics and Visual Cultures. Passionate about artistic research, she explores non-narrative structures, the process of the creation of meaning and the experience of misunderstanding in the context of performing arts. She studied dramaturgy with Synne Behrndt in Stockholm. As a performer, she has been involved in opera productions, theatre plays, performances and films. She recently won the fourth prize at the Concours International de Chant Lyrique de Namur.

November 2024