Pierre Audi

Born in Beirut, Lebanese director Pierre Audi studied at Oxford University and founded, in 1979, in London, the Almeida Theatre and its contemporary music festival, which he directed for a decade. The Amsterdam Opera House, which he directed from 1988 to 2018, was named Opera House of the Year in 2016 during his tenure, and then lent its stage to many of his productions. There, he presented a Monteverdi cycle, the first in-house production of Wagner’s Ring, as well as numerous works by Landi, Rameau, Handel, Gluck, Mozart, Rossini, Berlioz, Verdi, Puccini, Schoenberg, and Messiaen. Photo credit: Joel Saget