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 and quickly established itself in the international worlds of drama and opera, producing many operatic productions since the 1990s. Recent projects have inclucded Le Retour d'Idoménée (based on Campras' work) at Opéra de Lille and the Staatsoper in Berlin, Rusalka at the National Opera in Bergen and Carmen at the New National Theatre in Tokyo, where they staged Turandot. Other productions have included Mefistofele at the Opéra de Lyon and Staats­oper in Stuttgart, Berlioz' La damnation de Faust at the Salzburg Festival, the world premiere of Franken­stein, Le Grand Macabre and Shostakovitch's The Nose at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Faust in Madrid and Amsterdam, Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re at La Scala Milan, Il trovatore at the Opéra National de Paris, Un ballo in maschera and Madama Butterfly in Australia and Enescu's Oedipe and Norma at Covent Garden in Lon­don. He and Carlus Padrissa have staged many important events, including the opening ceremony of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, the 2001 Biennale in Valencia and 2010 Expo in Shanghai. He also developed his own thoughts on Goethe's Faust in a film. This Debussy's La damoiselle élue / Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher double bill was his first production for Oper Frankfurt. It was followed by Manon Lescaut and they return in 2025/26 for Fortner's Blood Wedding.