Olivier Fredj

Olivier FREDJ - Metteur en scène - Director
https://www.olivierfredj.com/

British and French, Olivier Fredj started off as social worker, then journalist before entering opera as a Stage Manager and then assisting R.Carsen, Simon McBurney, Lee Blakeley, Fanny Ardant…

He directs Il Re Pastore by W.A Mozart at the Châtelet,  Macbeth by Verdi at La Monnaie and in Poznan, Tosca at Opéra de Lille, Le Voyage dans la Lune by Offenbach in 16 opera houses, Die Massnahme by Brecht & Eisler at Philharmonie de Paris, L’ Orfeo in Cremona and  Combattimenti in Vienna and Magic Flute 2, by Damon Albarn and J. Sams at the Lido.

With Paradox Palace he produces Watch, Flouz and Krush, three social music theatre projects created with a hospital, a homeless shelter and a prison, presented at the Châtelet in Paris.

As a writer and director, he conceives Funeral Blues, (W.H Auden - B. Britten) and Bastarda, from Donizetti, an opera-series in six episodes on the life of Elizabeth I.