John La Bouchardière was born in Hampshire, was a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford, and studied music, drama and opera to post-graduate level at Birmingham University. He worked as an assistant and revival director for companies including BBC, Channel 4 (Operatunity), English National Opera (where he was on staff from 1996 to 2000), New Israeli Opera, Opera Graz, Opéra National du Rhin, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Teatro Liceu (Barcelona) Vlaamse Opera and Teatro São Carlos (Lisbon).
As a director in his own right, his productions include Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, Dido & Æneas, Epitaphium Carpentarij & Intermède pour "Un mariage forcé" (Charpentier), La dafne (da Gagliano), Orphée et Eurydice and San Giovanni Battista for Barber Institute of Fine Arts / Birmingham Early Music Festival; Susannah (Floyd) for Midlands Arts Centre, Carmen for Sutton Theatre, Essential Scottish Opera; scenes for The Royal College and The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama; The Beggars' Opera for St. Alban's Chamber Opera; Die Fledermaus forEastern Opera; Eugene Onegin for Scottish Opera Go Round / on Tour; The Full Monteverdi with I Fagiolini, winning a Royal Philharmonic Society Award; The Medium and Ten Belles for RWCMD; Rigoletto for Opera Holland Park; Semele and Tamerlano for Scottish Opera;Don Giovanni in Varna, Bulgaria.
He recently took the live show of The Full Monteverdi to New York's prestigious Lincoln Center Festival. His film, based on The Full Monteverdi, has now been releasedon DVD and broadcast internationally on television. Please contact using the form below for most recent version before publishing in print.
Christopher Giles's costume design for John's production of von Suppe's Ten Belles (RWCMD) appears on the front cover of the December 2005 issue of Opera Now.
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