Management: Pierre Médecin
A passionate music enthusiast, he had been an assistant to Wieland Wagner at Bayreuth in the 1950s, before working alongside Georges-François Hirsch when the latter was head of dance at the Opéra Garnier (1979–1981).
Pierre Médecin served as Artistic Adviser to the Opéra de Nice between 1959 and 1966, and became its Artistic Director in 1982. There he produced the complete Wagner Ring cycle and the complete Mozart operas to mark the bicentenary of the composer’s death, as well as a great many works from the standard repertoire and several French premieres, including Janáček’s Kátya Kabanová.