Matthew Jocelyn (born 1958) is the former artistic and general director of
Canadian Stage
Canadian Stage is a non-profit contemporary performance arts company based in Toronto, Ontario, ''Canada''.
About Canadian Stage
Canadian Stage is one of Canada's largest not-for-profit contemporary theatre companies, based in Toronto, Ontari ...
, the largest not-for-profit theatre in
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada. Prior to his appointment at Canadian Stage, Jocelyn was the artistic and general director of the
Atelier du Rhin in
Alsace
Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...
,
France
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for 10 years. Under his leadership, the organization became a major centre for multidisciplinary arts in France. He was named
Chevalier des Art et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters), by the French Ministry of Culture in July 2008.
Career
Jocelyn has worked as a theatre and opera director, an arts administrator, producer and advocate, and an opera librettist and translator.
Born in Canada, he studied at
Mount Allison University
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Like other liberal arts colleges in North America, Mount Allison does not parti ...
, l'
Université d'Aix-Marseille,
McGill University
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and
Oxford
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, where he was a
Rhodes Scholar
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Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...
. He moved to France in 1982, where he held the position of lecteur d'anglais at the
École Normale Supérieure, rue d'Ulm. After spending periods of time at
Jerzy Grotowski
Jerzy Marian Grotowski (; 11 August 1933 – 14 January 1999) was a Polish theatre director and theorist whose innovative approaches to acting, training and theatrical production have significantly influenced theatre today.
He was born in Rzesz ...
's Teatr Laboratorium in
Wroclaw, Poland, and Tanaka Min's Body Weather Laboratory in Hachioji, Japan, he created and performed dance-theatre productions in France, Germany and Spain, co-founding the Théâtre de l'Autre Rive in Paris in 1983, and the Théâtre Des-Hérités in 1992. In 1995, he joined the Centre de Formation Lyrique of the
Paris National Opera, in charge of stage work, where he established a program of semi-staged operas in the amphitheatre of the Opéra Bastille, many of which toured France. In 1998, he was named artistic and general director of the Atelier du Rhin, Centre Dramatique, in Colmar, France, where he was also responsible for creating the Jeunes Voix du Rhin, the opera studio of the Opéra national du Rhin.
Sara Angel in ''
Maclean's Magazine
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'' called Jocelyn "one of this country's most brilliant creative forces - and one of its most controversial."
Productions include
Theatre
*Isaac, the Laughter of the Aged : collective creation, Toronto, Canada
*The Atheist’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur : Printemps des Comédiens, Montpellier, France
*On l’appelle Cendrillon by Jean Cuenot : Théâtre de l’Ecrou, Fribourg, Suisse
*Three Sister by Anton Tchékhov : national tour, France
*Dancing at Lughnassa by Brian Friel : Théâtre de l’Ecrou, Fribourg, Suisse and tour
*The Love of the Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker : Atelier du Rhin, Colmar
*l’Annonce faite à Marie by Paul Claudel : Atelier du Rhin, Colmar and national tour (Prix du souffleur, best production in Paris 2002)
*fils nat. by Graham Smith : Atelier du Rhin, Colmar
*Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker : Atelier du Rhin, Colmar
*The Liar by Pierre Corneille : Stratford Festival, Canada
*The Architect by David Greig : Atelier du Rhin, Colmar
*Il ne reste que 50 minutes avant la fin du spectacle, based on the writings of Steven Pinker : Atelier du Rhin, Colmar
*Macbeth by William Shakespeare : Atelier du Rhin, Colmar and national tour
*Fernando Krapp Wrote me this Letter by Tankre Dorst : Canadian Stage, Toronto
*The Game of Love and Chance by Marivaux : Canadian Stage, Toronto
*This by Melissa James Gibson : Canadian Stage, Toronto
*Harper Regan by Simon Stephens : Canadian Stage, Toronto
Opera
*La voix humaine by
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-kno ...
: Centre de formation lyrique,
Opéra Bastille
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*Carmen by
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (; 25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic music, Romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, ''Carmen'', whi ...
: Centre de formation lyrique, Opéra Bastille
*Larmes de Couteau and Alexandre bis by
Bohuslav Martinu
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: Opéra national du Rhin, Théâtre de l’Athénee, Paris
*La Cecchina by
Nicola Piccini : Opéra national du Rhin
*La clemenza di Tito by Gluck : Opéra national du Rhin
*Le roi Arthus by
Ernest Chausson
Amédée-Ernest Chausson (; 20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.
Life
Born in Paris into an affluent bourgeois family, Chausson was the sole surviving child of a ...
: Opéra royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
*Reigen by
Philippe Boesmans
Philippe Boesmans (17 May 1936 – 10 April 2022) was a Belgian pianist, composer and academic teacher. He studied to be a pianist at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and was self-taught as a composer, influenced by the Liège Group of Henri Pou ...
: Opéra national du Rhin, Théâtre de l’Athénee, Paris
*La Carmençita based on Georges Bizet : Opéra national du Rhin, Théâtre de l’Athénee, Paris
*L’Étoile by
Emannuel Chabrier : Opéra national du Rhin
*Die Frau Ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss : Opéra Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels
*Lucia di Lamermoor by
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the '' bel canto'' opera style dur ...
: Oper Frankfurt
*Julie by
Philippe Boesmans
Philippe Boesmans (17 May 1936 – 10 April 2022) was a Belgian pianist, composer and academic teacher. He studied to be a pianist at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and was self-taught as a composer, influenced by the Liège Group of Henri Pou ...
: Théâtre d’Orléans, Théâtre de l’Athénee, Paris
*Die Trilogie der Frauen (Erwartung by
Arnold Schönberg
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, Le bal by
Oscar Strasnoy, Das Gehege by
Wolfgang Rihm
Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Sa ...
) : Hamburgische Staatsoper
*Requiem by
Oscar Strasnoy :
Teatro Colon
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, Buenos Aires (ACMA award for best production in Argentina, 2014)
Opera libretti
*Le bal by
Oscar Strasnoy : editions Billaudot (première, Hamburgische Staatsoper, 2010)
*Requiem by
Oscar Strasnoy : editions Billaudot (première, Teatro Colon, Argentina, 2014)
*
Hamlet
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by
Brett Dean
Brett Dean (born 23 October 1961) is an Australian composer, violist and conductor.
Biography
Brett Dean was born, raised and educated in Brisbane. He started learning violin at the age of eight, and later studied viola with Elizabeth Morgan a ...
: Boosey and Hawkes (première, Glyndebourne Festival, 2017)
Translations
*La tragédie de l’Athée by Cyril Tourneur (co-translated by Charles Ginvert) : editions Avant-Scène Théâtre, Paris
*Nightingale by Timberlake Wertenbaker : editions Harmattan, Paris
*L’Architecte by David Greig : éditions Avant-Scène Théâtre, Paris
*Fernando Krapp Wrote me this Letter by Tankred Dorst
Teaching positions
*École Normale Supérieure, rue d’Ulm (lecteur d’anglais : 1982-83)
*Université de Toulouse - le Mirail (summer courses in English : 1983, 1984)
*University of Toronto - University College (guest professor, theatre : 1990)
*American University of Paris (guest professor, rhetoric : 1994)
Awards and recognition
*Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University, 1980–82
*Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, French Ministry of Culture, 2009
*Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD), Mount Allison University, 2015
References
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Canadian theatre directors
Canadian theatre managers and producers
Canadian translators
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
1958 births
Living people
Canadian artistic directors