Jean-Jacques Etchevery

Trained by Lydia Karpova and Nicolas Zverev, from 1940 he danced at Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. In 1945, he founded his own company "L'Oiseau bleu". In 1946, Georges Hirsch called him as ballet master of the Paris Opera then entrusted him, as director of dance, to establish a new national ballet at the Opéra-Comique. After six years, he left the Opéra-Comique to become choreographer, director of ballet, stage director and finally director at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. He signed his first mise en scène in 1956.

After three years he left that position to become a full-time stage director all over Europe and even at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. He signed with the Grand Théâtre de Genève, when it reopened in 1962, where he organized the technical and administrative services and directed the stage. In 1973, he was appointed director of the Grand Théâtre de Tours [fr] where he would stay 10 full years.

A prolific choreographer and director, he mainly drew inspiration from poetry and painting.

• 1945: La Bourrée fantasque
• 1947: Khamma, by Claude Debussy
• 1949: Casse-Noisette
• 1951: La Chanson du mal-aimé (text by Guillaume Apollinaire, music by Léo Ferré)
• 1953: Pelléas et Mélisande (music by Gabriel Fauré)
• 1954: Les Bals de Paris
• 1955: Opéras-Ballets
• 1956: Manet
• 1956: Le Masque de la mort rouge, by Léon Jongen
• 1957: Pygmalion
• 1958: Mephisto-Valse (music by Franz Liszt)

• Jean-Jacques Etchevery on data.bnf.fr
• La jeune fille en bleu: Pétersbourg-Berlin-Paris
• La vie culturelle à Bordeaux 1945-1975