 Swiss
theatre and opera director François Rochaix is a former Associate
Director of the A.R.T. and a former Director of the A.R.T./MXAT
Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. His directing work at the A.R.T.
includes Antigone, The
Bacchae, The
Wild Duck, Tartuffe,
and The Oresteia,
as well as Michel Vinaver's Overboard,
Agamemnon/The Libation Bearers, and other productions at
the Institute. Mr. Rochaix has worked
extensively in theatres and opera houses throughout Europe and the U.S.
In 1963 he founded the Theatre de l'Atelier in Geneva, where he worked until
1975. He then became the General Director of the Theatre de Carouge through
1981, when he became a freelance director and began his work in opera. His
opera credits include Turn of the Screw, Pellas
et Mlisande, The Rake's Progress, and Dialogues
des Carmelites at the Grand Theatre de Geneve; as well as productions
at Scottish Opera, Opera North, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington Opera,
and Seattle Opera, where his work includes Wagner's complete Ring cycle.
Mr. Rochaix's theatre credits include Ibsen's A Doll's House
in Bergen, Norway; Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 in Geneva,
Vitrac's Victor in Moscow, and a Swiss, Norwegian, American, and Russian
co-production of The Oresteia in French and Norwegian,
presented in Geneva in 1991. Mr. Rochaix served as Artistic Director of
La Fête des
Vignerons de 1999, the massive Festival of the Winegrowers in Switzerland.
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