Marc de Mauny (born March 1, 1971) is a theatre manager and opera producer.

Biography

De Mauny was born in 1971 in

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to British parents. His father,

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, was a celebrated

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foreign correspondent, who established the Moscow bureau of the BBC in the 1960s. Both paternal grandparents were professional musicians (his grandfather Leon de Mauny studied violin with

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). Marc de Mauny is married to artist Polina de Mauny. They have two children, Louis-Nicolai (born in St Petersburg in 2005) and Leon (born in St Petersburg in 2008).

Education

De Mauny went to school in France then to the Jesuit school

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, Lancashire. He read Modern Languages (French and Russian) at

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( Pembroke College), graduating in 1994. De Mauny spent the academic year 1992-1993 studying singing and violin at the

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

Career

From 1998 to 2000 de Mauny was Arts Officer at the

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St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. In this capacity he was responsible for the arts programme of the 300th anniversary celebrations of Peter I’s Great Embassy to England. In 1998 de Mauny founded the St Petersburg International Early Music Festival together with violinist Andrei Reshetin as artistic director. De Mauny left the Festival in 2007 to join Raiffeisenbank in Moscow as head of public relations in charge of sponsorship policy and philanthropy. He returned to the arts sector in 2010 as director of development at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, St Petersburg. In 2011 de Mauny was appointed General Manager of the

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in the Urals (artistic director

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). and Executive Producer of the International Diaghilev Festival.Management of the International Diaghilev Festival Official Site http://diaghilevfest.ru/en/festival/management/, position which he held until returning to France in 2015. From Paris he managed the international touring activity of musicAeterna, and residencies at the festivals of Aix-en-Provence, Salzburg and Ruhr Triennale. In 2019 de Mauny set up a production company
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which fosters creative collaborations between visual and performing artists. From 2020 to 2022 Marc de Mauny was General Director of the ne
Festival Ravel
in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, which he established together with

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and

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