François Girard
Director
François Girard has distinguished himself as a director for cinema, opera and theatre. His two internationally acclaimed films, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993) and The Red Violin (1998) won numerous awards, including for the latter film an Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 1997, he made his debut as an opera director with Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms and directed his first play, Novecento by Alessandro Baricco. More recently, Girard directed, for theatre, Franz Kafka’s Le Procès; Michael Gordon, David Lang et Julia Wolfe’s oratorio, Lost Objects, for the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and Wagner’s Siegfried, for the Canadian Opera Company.
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