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Nicolas Joel was born on 6 February, 1953 in Paris, France, is a French opera director (1953–2020). Discover Nicolas Joel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?

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Occupation Opera director Opera manager
Age 67 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 6 February 1953
Birthday 6 February
Birthplace Paris, France
Date of death 18 June, 2020
Died Place Toulouse
Nationality France

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1953

Nicolas Joel or Joël (6 February 1953 18 June 2020) was a French opera director and administrator of opera houses.

1973

In 1973, he was hired by the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg as assistant director and remained until 1978.

1976

In 1976, Patrice Chéreau brought him in as an assistant for the production of the Jahrhundertring for the centenary of the Bayreuth Festival.

1979

In 1979, he began his own directing career with a production of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen for the Opéra du Rhin and the Opéra de Lyon.

1981

In 1981, he directed Samson et Dalila at the San Francisco Opera, with Shirley Verrett and Plácido Domingo in the leading roles, and Verdi's Aida at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, with Luciano Pavarotti.

1984

He directed a second Ring for the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Aida at the Vienna State Opera in 1984, Verdi's Ernani and Wagner's Parsifal in San Francisco, Wagner's Lohengrin in Copenhagen, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci in Amsterdam and Gothenburg, Verdi's Rigoletto, La traviata and La forza del destino at the Opernhaus Zürich, Salomé by Richard Strauss in Essen, and Mussorgski's Boris Godunov and Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Theater Bremen.

He also directed Puccini's Tosca in Lausanne for José van Dam's debut as Scarpia.

1990

He was general manager of the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse from 1990 to 2009 and of the Paris Opera from 2009 to 2014.

He directed operas internationally.

Joel was born in Paris, where he studied.

From 1990 to 2009, Joel was artistic director of the Capitole de Toulouse.

1992

At the Paris Opera, he staged a new production of Un Bal masqué in 1992.

1994

In 1994, he made his debut at La Scala in Milan with Puccini's La rondine.

He staged Gounod's Roméo et Juliette at the Royal Opera House in London, and Bizet's Carmen at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires.

He directed Wagner's Parsifal in Nice in 1994.

1996

Joel made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1996 with Giordano's Andrea Chénier, again with Pavarotti.

For the reopening of the Théâtre du Capitole in 1996, he presented Charpentier's Louise and Massenet's Werther.

Among his productions in Toulouse were Wagner's Ring, Boris Godunov, Louise and Hamlet.

Joel received the Drama and Music Critics Award for his lyrical productions twice, as well as a Victoire de la Musique in 1996, in the category "Best Lyrical Production" for Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites.

1998

In 1998, he directed Aida for the reopening of the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, and he staged Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera.

1999

In 1999, he directed a new production of Massenet's Manon at La Scala.

In France, he directed Puccini's Turandot and Massenet's Thaïs in Nancy, Ponchielli's La Gioconda and Verdi's Les Vêpres siciliennes at the Opéra national de Montpellier, Debussy's La Damoiselle élue and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with Jessye Norman at the Paris Opera, Gounod's Faust and the world premiere of Marcel Landowski's Montségur in Toulouse, and Andrea Chénier at the Opéra du Rhin and the Opéra de Lyon.

2004

He reopened the Théâtre du Capitole, after the renovation of the stage cage, in October 2004, with a new production of Janáček's Jenůfa.

He staged Daphne by Richard Strauss at the Vienna State Opera in 2004, Puccini's La rondine at the Metropolitan Opera in 2008, and Faust at the Vienna State Opera the same year.

Joel had been a chevalier (knight) of the Legion of Honour since 2004 and became an officer in 2014.

2009

From 2009, Joel was director of the Paris Opera, succeeding Gerard Mortier.

2011

In 2011, the institution recorded an attendance of nearly 800,000, 94.1% and 1.7% higher than in 2010.

While standard repertoire was performed, contemporary opera appeared in Bruno Mantovani's opera Akhmatova, Jean-Guillaume Bart's ballet La Source, Alexei Ratmansky's ballet Psyché, which was also shown in New York City, and Wayne McGregor's ballet L'Anatomie de la sensation.

2012

In October 2012, Joel announced that he would not stand for another term, after learning of the Opera's budgetary planning for the coming years.

2013

In September 2013, he tendered his resignation, one year early, effective August 2014.

He was succeeded by Stéphane Lissner.

Joel was the brother of conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak.

2020

He died on 18 June 2020 in Toulouse.