As part of its annual press conference on March 8, 2024, Oper Leipzig will present the new Director of the Leipzig Ballet with his programme for the 2024/25 season.
Rémy Fichet, born in Amiens (France), completed his dance training at the Paris Opera Ballet School. After two years as a dancer at the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris, he joined the Leipzig Ballet in 2000, performing in the ensemble until 2008, most recently as a soloist. Following his career as a dancer, he remained loyal to both dance and the Leipzig Ballet. As scheduler and project coordinator, and since 2012 as Artistic Production Manager, Rémy Fichet provided the structural framework for the successful work of the Leipzig Ballet, with additional qualifications from two years of part-time management studies and a Master of Arts degree, which he completed with distinction at the Palucca University of Dance Dresden in 2023. Rémy Fichet established first-time specialised dance medicine services for the ballet ensemble at Oper Leipzig and values long-term, individually tailored support for the dancers and the next generation of choreographic creatives.
The Oper Leipzig carries on the tradition of 330 years of music theatre in Leipzig: in 1693 the first Opera House “am Brühl” was opened as the third civic music theatre in Europe after Venice and Hamburg. With around 680 employees, the city’s largest in-house cultural institution comprises five mainstays: the opera, Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig Ballet, 360° Education and the theatre craft studios, which work for all the city’s theatres. The Leipzig Ballet, whose origins also date back to the 17th century, is one of the major international companies since the Uwe Scholz era from 1991-2004.
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