John La Bouchardière
John La Bouchardière is a British opera, film and television director. Biography. La Bouchardière was a pupil at Hampton School and later a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford, studied at the University of Birmingham and was a staff director at English National Opera. He also spent several years working internationally as an assistant and revival director in opera, for such companies as the BBC, Channel 4, New Israeli Opera, Opera Graz, Opéra National du Rhin, Opera North, Scottish Opera, Teatro Liceu (Barcelona), Vlaamse Opera, Teatro São Carlos (Lisbon), La Fenice and Opera Zurich. His recent productions include  Semele (Scottish Opera and Florentine Opera, Milwaukee), "Eugene Onegin", "Tamerlano" (Scottish Opera), "Rigoletto" (Opera Holland Park), "Don Giovanni" (Operosa Festival, Varna, Bulgaria), "Carmen" (Nordfjord, Norway), Cavalli's "Giasone" (Royal Academy of Music), and Mozart's "Idomeneo" (Florentine Opera). He is best known for "The Full Monteverdi", his acclaimed reworking of Monteverdi's Fourth book of Madrigals with I Fagiolini, winning a Royal Philharmonic Society Award in 2006; it toured widely as a live production, including a run of performances at Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York City. This was released in a film version in 2007 and has been  awarded a Choc du Monde de la Musique.; La Bouchardière is creative director at Polyphonic Films and created "Music Room", a classical music television series for the cable channel Sky Arts. He returned to Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York in July 2013 to direct a controversial reimagining of Lera Auerbach's "a cappella" opera "The Blind" (based on the symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck), for which the audience was blindfolded throughout. In 2014, he directed a new production of John Adams' "El Niño" for Spoleto Festival USA, which was widely praised for taking a very different approach from  that of its original director, Peter Sellars. and returned to Spoleto Festival in 2019 to direct the first theatrical staging of Joby Talbot's "Path of Miracles".