Christian Eymery Librettist

Biography

He has accompanied the early steps of CRÉA in Aulnay-sous-Bois alongside its founder, Didier Grojsman. With one foot in the offices and the other behind the scenes, he remained throughout this adventure a director wearing multiple hats, contributing to the prominence of CRÉA, notably through the writing and staging of around thirty productions created at the Jacques Prévert Theatre. Since their creation, these works have been performed each year by numerous institutions: Paris Opera, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lyon, Toulon, as well as in conservatories and schools.

Les enfants du Levant (music by Isabelle Aboulker, 2001); Pinocchio, jazz opera (music by Thierry Lalo, 2012); Somewhere, musical (Ferme de Villefavard/Grand Théâtre de Provence – Aix / Opéra de Vichy); Rutabaga, songs from ’39 to ’45, for the Chœur de l’Éducation nationale (Ferme de Villefavard/Cité de la Musique); Les Indiens sont à l’Ouest, music by Juliette Noureddine (Théâtre d’Aulnay/Théâtre du Châtelet); Singing in the Train (Théâtre d’Aulnay/Grimaldi Forum – Monaco).

He also works on the production of CD albums and audiobooks with Gallimard Jeunesse, Frémeaux et associés, Actes Sud, and Harmonia Mundi. In collaboration with composer Isabelle Aboulker, he writes works for the Maîtrise de Radio France, the Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine, and the Opéra Bastille as part of the “Ten Months of School and Opera” program. Pinocchio (Black and Blue) received the Charles Cros Academy Prize.

In 2022, he wrote The Little Tin Soldier, an adaptation of Andersen’s tale set to music by Caroline Marçot. That same year, he wrote and directed Les Grillon’s for the CRI (Chœur Ressource Interprofessionnel). The writing of two tales, I’m Pouting and It’s Not a Piece of Cake! (commissioned by CRÉA), marked his first true collaboration with composer Coralie Fayolle.

In autumn 2025, a new version of Martin Squelette was premiered at the Théâtre d’Aulnay and then immediately revived at the Opéra Bastille.

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