Alixe Durand Saint Guillain
Stage Director

Coming soon.
Alixe is a freelance stage director, opera singer and writer, based in Leipzig and Geneva.
She has worked as a revival and assistant director in several European opera houses, such as the Opéra de national de Lorraine, the Théâtre de la Croix Rousse (France), the Opéra de Lausanne, the Konzert und Theater St. Gallen (Switzerland) and INO (Ireland). A frequent collaborator of Julien Chavaz, she also worked with Anthony Almeida, Jean Lacornerie and Pinar Karabulut, among others.
For her own projects, she experiments with pluridisciplinary forms. In 2022, she wrote and created the sound installation “Lucy.” with Ellinor Blixt, exhibited at Stockholm University of the Arts, and in 2018, she presented the performance “J’expérimente avec de la matière humaine mais je ne la mange pas” at the Palais Bondy, Lyon. Since 2023, she is part of the performing arts collective operationderkuenste, with whom she staged Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald at the TD Berlin.
She graduated from Stockholm University of the Arts with a Master in Opera Vocal Performance and from Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 with a Master in Philosophy, specialised in Aesthetics and Visual Cultures. Passionate about artistic research, she explores non-narrative structures, the process of the creation of meaning and the experience of misunderstanding in the context of performing arts. She studied dramaturgy with Synne Behrndt in Stockholm.
As a performer, she has been involved in opera productions, theatre plays, performances and films. She recently won the fourth prize at the Concours International de Chant Lyrique de Namur.