The current director of the Valence National Dramatic Centre, Richard Brunel, 47, has been appointed as General Manager of the Lyon. He will succeed Serge Dorny in September 2021. « Richard Brunel reflects the same innovation as that of Serge Dorny’s recruitment in 2003, » Mayor Gérard Collomb said in a statement.
Bertrand Rossi, 46, since 2015 Deputy Director General of the Opéra du Rhin (Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar), and Interim General Manager since 2018, has been named General manager of the Opéra Nice-Côte d’Azur. Bertrand Rossi was born in Nice in 1973 and became familiar with the opera house very early, since his father was the administrative manager of the opera.
