Laurent Pelly

French director and costume designer Laurent Pelly has directed on the world’s leading stages. Recent operatic work includes Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Teatro Real, Royal Danish Opera, winner of the 2025 Premios XXI Best New Production), Gypsy (Philharmonie de Paris), L’opera seria (Teatro alla Scala, Theater an der Wien), Il turco in Italia (Teatro Real, Opéra de Lyon), La chauve-souris (Opéra de Lille), Eugene Onegin (La Monnaie, Royal Danish Opera), La Périchole (Théâtre des Champs Élysées), Lakmé (Opéra Comique, Opéra national du Rhin), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opéra de Lille, Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival Japan), La voix humaine/Les mamelles de Tiresias (Glyndebourne Festival), La Cenerentola (Amsterdam, Geneva, Valencia, Los Angeles), Falstaff (Madrid, Brussels, Tokyo Nikikai Opera Foundation) and Le nozze di Figaro (Santa Fe Opera, Matsumoto). Recent theatre work includes Goldoni’s L’Impresario de Smyrne – Scènes de la vie d’opéra), and the first French theatrical production of Mary Chase’s Harvey, with acclaimed French actor Jacques Gamblin. 2025/26 Season highlights include new productions for the Glyndebourne Festival, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Teatro Real Madrid and L’Opéra national du Rhin, as well as numerous revivals of existing productions including Falstaff, Eugene Onegin, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.