The former director of the Capitole Theater and the Paris National Opera, Nicolas Joel, a great figure in the lyrical scene, died Thursday at the age of 67, the two institutions announced on Friday. "The whole house is associated with the pain of his loved ones," said the Capitol Theater in a tweet. The Paris Opera has also confirmed his death to AFP.
We are very sad to learn of the disappearance of Nicolas Joel, director of the Paris national opera and the Capitole theater. The whole house joins in the pain of his loved ones.
- Capitoline Theater (@theatrecapitole) June 19, 2020Sought for the classicism of his achievements
A man of the lyric theater since his twenties, Nicolas Joel will have directed the Capitole Theater in Toulouse for nineteen years, from 1990 to 2009, before being called upon to take the reins of the Paris National Opera, replacing Gerard Mortier. He had given way to Stéphane Lissner in 2014. He said in 2012 that he was not a candidate for his own succession due to the drop in grants to the Opera.
Very early launched in a brilliant career, assistant then director, he quickly became a recognized personality throughout Europe, in the United States and even in Latin America and Japan. Sought after for the classicism of his achievements, Nicolas Joel has worked with the greatest singers such as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jessye Norman. It was at the age of 20 that he began as assistant director at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg. He also collaborated with the Chorégies d'Orange.
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