Paris Opera - List of Managing Directors

List of Managing Directors

Start date Name Administration
28 June 1669 Pierre Perrin Royal Household
30 March 1672 Jean-Baptiste Lully
27 June 1687 Jean Nicolas de Francine
30 December 1688 Jean Nicolas de Francine, Hyacinthe Gauréaud de Dumont
7 October 1704 Pierre Guyenet
12 December 1712 Jean Nicolas de Francine, Hyacinthe Gauréaud de Dumont
8 February 1728 André-Cardinal Destouches
1 June 1730 Maximilien-Claude Gruer
18 August 1731 Claude Lecomte,(fr) Lebœuf
30 May 1733 Eugène de Thuret
18 March 1744 Jean-François Berger
3 May 1748 Joseph Guénot de Tréfontaine
25 August 1749 Marquis d'Argenson, then François Rebel
and François Francœur		 City of Paris
1754 Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
1755 Bontemps, Levasseur
13 March 1757 François Rebel, François Francœur Royal Household
9 February 1767 Pierre Montan Berton, Jean-Claude Trial
9 November 1769 Pierre Montan Berton, Jean-Claude Trial,
Antoine Dauvergne, Joliveau		 City of Paris
18 April 1776 Direction by the Royal Commissioners Royal Commissioners
18 October 1777 Jacques de Vismes du Valgay(fr)
19 February 1779 City of Paris
19 March 1780 Pierre Montan Berton Royal Accountant
27 May 1780 Antoine Dauvergne, François-Joseph Gossec
8 April 1790 City of Paris
8 March 1792 Louis-Joseph Francœur, Jacques Cellerier(fr)
(under committee headed by J.-J. Leroux)		 Paris Commune
17 September 1793 Committee of the Commune (with François Lays)
1 May 1797 Committee of the Commune
12 September 1799 Jacques Devisme (formerly Jacques de Vismes du Valgay),
Joseph Bonet de Treiches(fr)
13 March 1800 Jacques Devisme
25 December 1800 Joseph Bonet de Treiches
19 December 1801 Jacques Cellerier
26 November 1802 Prefect Étienne Morel de Chefdeville, then
Joseph Bonet de Treiches as Director		 Prefects of the Palace
1 November 1807 Louis-Benoit Picard Imperial Superintendents
3 April 1814 Royal Superintendents
18 January 1816 Denis Pierre Jean Papillon de la Ferté
30 March 1817 Alexandre Étienne Choron
30 October 1819 Giovanni-Battista Viotti
1 November 1821 François-Antoine Habeneck
26 November 1824 Raphaël Duplantys
12 July 1827 Émile Timothée Lubbert
2 March 1831 Louis-Désiré Véron Franchised entrepreneurship
with state subvention
15 August 1835 Henri Duponchel
15 November 1839 Henri Duponchel, Édouard Monnais
1 June 1841 Henri Duponchel, Léon Pillet
October 1841 Léon Pillet
1 August 1847 Léon Pillet, Henri Duponchel, Nestor Roqueplan
November 1847 Henri Duponchel, Nestor Roqueplan
21 November 1849 Nestor Roqueplan
1 July 1854 Imperial Household
(Civil List)
11 November 1854 François-Louis Crosnier
1 July 1856 Alphonse Royer
20 December 1862 Émile Perrin
11 April 1866 Franchised entrepreneurship
with state subvention
1 October 1870 State administration
28 October 1870 Society of Artists
with state subvention
9 May 1871 Eugène Garnier
3 July 1871 Émile Perrin
9 July 1871 Hyacinthe Halanzier
1 November 1871 Private entrepreneurship
with state subvention
16 July 1879 August Vaucorbeil
1 December 1884 Eugène Ritt, Pedro Gailhard(fr)
1 January 1892 Eugène Bertrand, Édouard Colonne
1 April 1893 Eugène Bertrand, Pedro Gailhard
31 December 1899 Pedro Gailhard
1907 Pedro Gailhard, Pierre Barthélemy Gheusi
1 January 1908 Leimistin Broussan, André Messager
1 January 1915 Jacques Rouché(fr)
14 January 1939 State administration:
Réunion des Théâtres
Lyrique Nationaux(fr)
(Opéra and Opéra-Comique
merged under one
administration, RTLN)
1940 Jacques Rouché (RTLN), Philippe Gaubert (Opéra)
1942 Jacques Rouché (RTLN), Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (Opéra)
21 February 1945 René Gadave (interim administrator)
27 June 1945 Maurice Lehman(fr) (RTLN), Reynaldo Hahn (Opéra)
12 May 1946 Georges Hirsch(fr) (RTLN), Henri Büsser (Opéra)
17 November 1951 Maurice Lehman (RTLN), Emmanuelle Bondville (Opéra)
30 September 1955 Jacques Ibert (RTLN), Emmanuelle Bondville (Opéra)
13 April 1956 Georges Hirsch(fr) (RTLN), Emmanuelle Bondville (Opéra)
August 1959 A.-M. Julien(fr) (RTLN), Emmanuelle Bondville (Opéra)
19 April 1962 Georges Auric (RTLN), Emmanuelle Bondville (Opéra)
September 1968 André Chabaud (interim director)
1 October 1969 René Nicoly
23 May 1971 Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur (RTLN),
Bernard Lefort(fr) (Opéra)
1 January 1972 Rolf Liebermann (Opéra-Comique closed)
7 February 1978 Théâtre National de
l'Opéra de Paris
31 July 1980 Bernard Lefort
September 1982 Interim committee: Paul Puaux,(fr) Jean-Pierre Leclerc,(fr)
Alain Lombard, Georges-François Hirsch(fr)
1 August 1983 Massimo Bogianckino
24 September 1985
12 February 1986 Jean-Louis Martinoty(fr)
13 July 1989 (Opéra Bastille opens)
1 September 1989 Jean-Albert Cartier
(general administrator of the Palais Garnier)
2 April 1990 Pierre Bergé (president) Opéra de Paris
(Opéra-Comique reopens)
15 May 1991 Georges-François Hirsch(fr)
(general administrator of the Palais Garnier)
1 September 1992 Brigitte Lefèvre(fr)
(general administrator of the Palais Garnier)
5 February 1994 Opéra National de Paris
15 February 1994 Jean-Paul Cluzel (inspector general of finances)
1 August 1995 Hugues Gall(fr)
September 2004 Gerard Mortier
1 August 2009 Nicolas Joel(fr)

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