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Barbe & Doucet Biography
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Barbe & Doucet
BARBE & DOUCET
After separate beginnings in dance, music, theatre and the opera field, Renaud Doucet, Stage director &
Choreographer and André Barbe, Set & Costume Designer, joined forces.
They produced Die Feen by Wagner to open the bicentenial celebrations “Wagnerjahr 2013” for Oper
Leipzig in coproduction with the Bayreuther Festspiele, La Cenerentola and La Belle Hélène at the
Hamburg Stastasoper, Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Oper Bonn, Samson & Dalila at the Royal Swedish
Opera, Cendrillon by Massenet at l’Opéra National du Rhin, New York City Opera, Arabella at Oper
Köln, the Viennese premiere of The Sound of Music, Turandot and Rusalka at the Volksoper Wien,
Benvenuto Cellini and Iphigénie en Aulide at l’Opéra National du Rhin, Pénélope by Fauré, Si j’étais roi
by Adam & Thérèse / La Navarraise by Massenet at the Wexford Festival Opera, Manon at the Scottish
Opera & Malmö Opera, Turandot (North American production) at Seattle Opera, Minnesota Opera,
Cincinnati Opera, Don Pasquale at Scottish Opera.
Their productions are recognized for their creativity, sense of spectacle and minutely detailed dramaturgy.
André Barbe studied at the National Theatre School of Canada under the tutelage of designer François
Barbeau. He received the Irish Times Irish Theatre Award 2005 for best set designer for the production of
Pénélope at Wexford Festival Opera as well as the 2011 Rolf-Mares Prize for best sets & costumes for the
production of La Cenerentola at the Hamburgische Staatsoper.
Trained musician Renaud Doucet began his performing career as a solo dancer, ballet master, and
choreographer in international dance companies. He was introduced to the opera world as baroque
choreographer & baroque gesture specialist coaching singers like Alfredo Kraus, Jaime Aragall, Raina
Kabaivanska or Mirella Freni.
Upcoming productions include Turandot at Opera in Philadelphia, Don Pasquale at the Florida Grand
Opera, Il Matrimonio Segreto at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Les Contes d’Hoffmann at
the Volksoper Wien & La Bohème at Scottish Opera.
Recent DVD releases LA BELLE HÉLÈNE with Jennifer Larmore at the Hamburg Staatsoper.
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