Barriere, Aleksi

Aleksi Barriere (Paris, France)

2023–24 Season: Multilingual Librettist and Dramaturg, Kaija Saariaho's Innocence

Recent and Upcoming: Multilingual Librettist and Dramaturg of Innocence (Aix-en-Provence, Helsinki’s Finnish National Opera, London’s Royal Opera Covent Garden, Amsterdam’s Dutch National Opera, Metropolitan Opera); Directing and devising credits for Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone (New York’s Gerald W. Lynch Theater), Letter of Love (The Fundamentals of Judo) (Chicago’s Trap Door Theatre), Between, Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River; text and staging for The 38^th Parallel (Mannes School of Music)

Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance (Reconnaisance)

Co-Founder of the collective for new music theatre La Chambre aux échos with Clément Mao-Takacs