Biography
Author and stage director, Olivier Lexa is trained as a historian and musician. He started his stage-directing career in 1999 as assistant director of Sallinger by Bernard-Marie Koltes at Theatre 3bisF in Aix-en-Provence, as assistant of Benjamin Lazar at the Théâtre de l’Incrédule from 2005 to 2007, and as co director of the Festival Opéra des Rues in Paris, before being appointed chief executive of the Palazzetto Bru Zane in 2007. After three years devoted to the repertoire of French romantic music, he founded in 2010 the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, of which he is artistic director. In 2014, he staged the first recreation of L’Eritrea by Francesco Cavalli in a production of Teatro La Fenice, praised unanimously in the press. In 2016, he is dramaturge for the new production of V
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Past performances 2014 — Yesterday
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Biography
Author and stage director, Olivier Lexa is trained as a historian and musician. He started his stage-directing career in 1999 as assistant director of Sallinger by Bernard-Marie Koltes at Theatre 3bisF in Aix-en-Provence, as assistant of Benjamin Lazar at the Théâtre de l’Incrédule from 2005 to 2007, and as co director of the Festival Opéra des Rues in Paris, before being appointed chief executive of the Palazzetto Bru Zane in 2007. After three years devoted to the repertoire of French romantic music, he founded in 2010 the Venetian Centre for Baroque Music, of which he is artistic director. In 2014, he staged the first recreation of L’Eritrea by Francesco Cavalli in a production of Teatro La Fenice, praised unanimously in the press. In 2016, he is dramaturge for the new production of V
