Pierre Audi
Pierre Audi celebrated major successes as a director with Dutch National Opera, including the Monteverdi cycle, the Mozart cycle and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. From 1988 to 2018, he was artistic director of Dutch National Opera and built up a reputation that had international resonance. Under Audi, Dutch National Opera played a leading role in the development of young artists and professionals in all the disciplines of opera. He is currently artistic director of the Festival d'Art Lirique d'Aix-en-Provence. He has directed more than once a version of the Orpheus myth for the opera stage and returned to Dutch National Opera in March 2022 especially for the world premiere of Eurydice - Die Liebenden, blind.