Dominique Pitoiset Director

Season 24/25 Artist

A theater and opera director, teacher, set designer and actor, Dominique Pitoiset was born in Dijon. In 1988, he met Swiss actress Nadia Fabrizio, with whom he founded the Compagnie Pitoiset. In 1993, he was awarded the Villa Médicis hors les murs prize for his production of Goethe's Urfaust, and spent a year in Italy. He was appointed Director of the Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne in 1996.

He teaches at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art in Milan and at the Teatro Stabile School in Turin, where he is associate director. He directed the Shakespearean tetralogy Otello / Macbeth / The Tempest / Love's Labors Lost. He returned to France in 2004 to take charge of the Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, where he founded the École supérieure de théâtre de Bordeaux Aquitaine. In 2014, after an extensive tour of France and abroad, his staging of Cyrano de Bergerac was presented at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe.

Dominique Pitoiset is made an Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His operatic productions include Les Noces de Figaro at the Opéra de Lausanne, L'Isola disabitata, Didon et Énée and Orphée et Eurydice for the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris, Le Tour d'écrou and Salomé at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, and La Bohème at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. He teaches stage design at the Dresden School of Fine Arts and stage direction at the Ernst Busch School in Berlin.

From 2014 to 2020, Dominique Pitoiset is Associate Artist of Bonlieu - Scène nationale d'Annecy. In 2016, he became Professor of Scenography and Dramaturgy at the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, and directed Manon Lescaut at the National Theater in Zagreb. Appointed General and Artistic Director of the Opéra de Dijon in January 2021, he staged Hänsel et Gretel, followed by Così fan tutte, Armide and Tosca.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Don Giovanni, 1999; Falstaff, 1999