Geneva Director of the Opéra nationale du Rhin
Alain Perroux from Geneva succeeds Eva Kleinitz, who passed away in May, as General Director of the Opera national du Rhin with venues in Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar.
Born in Geneva in 1971, Perroux worked as a music journalist for the Journal de Genève, the Gazette de Lausanne and Le Temps, as well as a lecturer, before working as a dramaturge for the Grand Théâtre de Genève between 2001 and 2009. He subsequently held the same position at the Aix-an-Provenca Festival. He was also director of the Opera de Poche de Genève between 2003 and 2011. He will take up the post in Alsace at the beginning of next year 2020.
The Opéra national du Rhin (OnR) is an inter-communal association and is jointly managed by three cities, each of which has its own artistic focus: the opera in Strasbourg, the ballet of the Opéra national du Rhin - Centre chorégraphique national since 1985 - in Mulhouse, the opera studio (training center for young singers) in Colmar
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Photo: Sami Mlouhi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64178636
