Michel Rostain at Salon Livre Paris in 2011

Michel Rostain (born 28 September 1942, in Mende, Lozère, is a French lyric and musical theater director as well as a writer.

Biography

Michel Rostain began studying music as an autodidact at the age of seven. He pursued this intensely throughout his primary and secondary schooling in Nîmes. He later and more assiduously resumed musical studies (years 1970–1980).

He first taught philosophy in terminal classes, then taught at the Department of Clinical Psychology, Paris VII. At the same time, he worked in a research laboratory in the humanities, the Centre d'études, de recherches et de formation institutionnelles, and the Laborde psychiatric clinic, headed by Félix Guattari and Jean Oury.

At this point in his life, Michel Rostain was able to devote himself to one of the things that was most dear to him with writing, music, and to do it his job. Thus, he founded a lyrical and musical theater company in 1978, and took over the direction of the scène nationale of Quimper in 1995, while continuing to make musical stagings

As director of lyrical and musical theater, Michel Rostain was director of the Théâtre de Cornouaille, scène nationale of Quimper from 1995 to 2008. For more than thirty years, he brought to the scene operas and contemporary lyrical creations. Among his latest shows are Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias (Garcia Lorca, music by Vicente Pradal, created at the Théâtre national de Toulouse in 1998), Lucia di Lammermoor, (opera by Donizetti, at the Théâtre Les Gémeaux, Scène nationale de Sceaux in 2001). La Désaccordée (by Richard Dubelski after texts by Nancy Huston, created at the Théâtre de Cornouaille, 2003). Zaïde(s), (a show with two works: Zaïde, unfinished opera by Mozart, and Zaïde Actualités, a new opera commissioned to Bernard Cavanna, 2006 at the Théâtre de Cornouaille). Sumidagawa (A lyrical work of the Japanese composer Susumu Yoshida created in Quimper, at the Opéra de Nantes, the Opéra d’Angers, the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, the Opéra de Rennes, the Opéra de Montpellier, etc.). In 2008, Michel Rostain staged the new production of Château des Carpathes by Philippe Hersant, at Opéra de Rennes. In 2010, he wrote and performed Sept nouvelles de la douleur, commissioned by the Orchestre de Bretagne for The Seven Last Words of Christ by Joseph Haydn.

Distinctions

• 2002: Chevalier dof the Ordre national du Mérite
• 2009: Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Works

External links

• Théâtre de Cornouaille
• Michel Rostain on Babelio
• Michel Rostain, cœur de Lion on Paris Match (25 March 2011)
• Michel Rostain parle au nom de son fils disparu on L'Express (13 April 2011)
• Dialogues, 5 questions à Michel Rostain on YouTube
• Michel Rostain : au nom du fils on Bibliobs (3 March 2011)