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Jean-Luc Tingaud - conductor
After studying piano and conducting at the Paris National Conservatoire,
Jean-Luc Tingaud was chosen by Manuel Rosenthal to be his assistant. A
specialist of French repertoire, from 2002 – 2007 he was Associate Conductor of
the Opéra Comique, where recent projects have included Donizetti’s Rita, Adam’s
Le toréador, Saint-Saëns’s La princesse jaune, Boieldieu’s Le calife de Bagdad,
Offenbach’s Les bavards, Poulenc’s Les mamelles de Tirésias and Ibert’s
Angélique. Since 2006 he has been Associate Conductor of the Grand Théâtre de
Reims, where he also conducted La Damnation de Faust. He has conducted Fauré’s
Pénélope, Massenet’s Sapho and Auber’s Manon Lescaut at the Wexford Festival,
Hahn’s Ciboulette for Opera Zuid, Offenbach’s L’île de Tulipatan at the Opéra
National de Lyon and La voix humaine and La Périchole in Compiègne.
Past engagements have included: Mireille, L’elisir d’amore, La bohème, Così fan
tutte and Carmen at the Théâtre d’Herblay in Paris, Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette
at the Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos in Lisbon, Tosca in Besançon, Werther at
the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, Les dialogues des carmélites
in Saint-Etienne, Riders to the Sea in Reims, Véronique in Metz and Pelléas et
Mélisande at the Opéra de Toulon.
More recently he conducted: Les Nuits d'Eté in Genoa; Pelléas et Mélisande in
Prague and Rennes; Le Roi malgré lui at the Wexford Festival Opera; The Turn of
the Screw in Massy; Madama Butterfly and Les dialogues des Carmelites in
Pittsburgh; L’Heure espagnole in Paris; Le Roi d'Ys in Montpellier and Paris;
Carmen at the Opéra de Toulon; Die Schöpfung in Belfast; series of concerts in
Parma with the Orchestra Toscanini, and in Paris at the Opéra. Engagements of
the past season include concerts with the Krakow Philharmonic (including
Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring), the Orchestra of the Opéra d’Avignon, Ulster
Orchestra for the BBC Summer Series. He has just conducted La Bohème at the
Salle Pleyel in Paris and Les pecheurs des perles at the English National Opera.
Future plans include: La Fille du Régiment in Madrid and with the Scottish Opera
Orchestra in Glasgow; Coppelia at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo and series of
concerts in Dublin with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra.
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Edoardo Sanchi - set designer
Edoardo Sanchi graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.
From 1985 to 1990 he worked as assistant to the designers Margherita Palli,
Gabris Ferrari, Michel Lebois, Quirino Conti and Gianni Quaranta, signing his
own stage and costume designs from 1981 onwards. His work as a sculptor has been
exhibited in Milan.
He has collaborated as set designer with directors Luca Ronconi, David Brandon,
Stefano Monti, Giorgio Marini, Italo Nunziata, Franco Ripa di Meana, Roberto
Paci Dalò, Ruggiero Cappuccio, Francesco Micheli, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti,
Marco Martinelli and Micha Van Hoecke. Mr. Sanchi has been regularly invited in
important theatres and festivals such as: Wexford Festival Opera, Teatro alla
Scala Milan, Arena di Verona, Teatro Comunale di Bologna,Verdi Festival in
Parma, Opéra Theatre d’Avigon, Liège and St. Etienne, Teatro Comunale di
Firenze, Teatro Alighieri and Festival in Ravenna, Garsington Opera Festival,
Festival Mozart de La Coruna just to name a few.
Recent projects include sets for Ascanio in Alba directed by Franco Ripa
di Meana for La Scala, and in 2007 a new production of Tannahäuser
directed by Guy Montavon for Theater Erfurt in Germany. For the Pfingsfestpiele
in Salzburg he designed sets for Il Ritorno di Don Calandrino, director
Ruggero Cappuccio, conductor Riccardo Muti. For the REC Festival in Reggio
Emilia he designed Il Tempo sospeso del volo, the world première of a new
work by composer Nicola Sani, directed by Franco Ripa di Meana. In 2008, he
created the set of The Nutcracker (Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky) for the
West Australian Ballet at the His Majesty's theatre in Perth. This production
has been presented in a new dramatic score, re-written by the designer and the
choreographer Ivan Cavallari. In 2009 with the director Franco Ripa di Meana he
created sets for Tosca at Terme di Caracalla in Rome and the trilogy of
La Traviata and Il Trovatore at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Further, for the Teatro Verdi of Trieste in co-production with Teatro Carlo
Felice of Genova and Teatro San Carlo of Naples he designed the set for Die
Lustige Witwe working with the director Federico Tiezzi.
In 2010 for the National Centre for Performing Arts in Beijing he created the
set design for L’Elisir d’amore and in season 2010/2011 he designed the
set for La Bohème at Teatro La Fenice collaborating with director
Francesco Micheli. In 2012 he designed Pinocchio for the West Australian
Ballet and Otello at Teatro la Fenice (director Francesco Micheli) and in
2013 he worked with the director Guy Montavon for a new production of ANDREA
CHENIER at the Staatstheater Nürnberg in Germany.
He has been teaching set design at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice,
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan and in the Accademia di Belle Arti of
Carrara. In 2007 he has been invited by VCA (Univeristy of Melbourne, Australia)
as Professor in Residence to lead a master in set design.
From 2012 he is assigned professor in Set design at the Accademia di Belle Arti
of Venice.
This summer he designed the set at Macerata Festival for both productions,
Tosca and Aida.
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