Àlex Ollé

Director

Àlex Ollé
© Elna Bauer

Àlex Ollé, born in Catalonia, is one of six artistic leaders of the theatre collective La Fura dels Baus, which was founded in 1979 in Barcelona. Now he's back at Oper Frankfurt, where he enjoyed great success with Manon Lescaut and a Debussy La damoiselle élue / Honegger Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher double bill, for this new production of Fortner's Blood Wedding  He has directed a great many plays, operas and films. His earliest productions included a Suz/O/Suz trilogy and Tier Mon, F@ust 3,0, XXX, Metamorfosis, Boris Godunov and L'histoire d'un soldat. He and Carlus Padrissa Mediterrani created mar olímpic to open the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and his film Faust 5.0. won the »Méliès d’Or 2003« as best European fantasy film. Houses where Àlex Ollé has directed operas include La Scala Milan, Covent Garden in London, Sydney Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, New National Theatre in Tokyo, Teatro Real in Madrid and Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. His most oustanding productions included La damnation de Faust, Die Zauberflöte, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Aida, Le Grand Macabre, Tristan und Isolde, Oedipe, Un ballo in maschera, Frankenstein, Madama Butterfly, Faust, The Flying Dutchman, Pélleas et Mélisande, Il trovatore, Norma, La bohème, Alceste, Turandot, Ariane et Barbe Bleue, Carmen, Idoménée, The Nose, Rusalka, L’amore dei tre and Lady Macbeth of Mtzensk. Àlex Ollé is House Director at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.