French director Vincent Boussard has concentrated on opera since making his debut at the Comédie Française’s Studio Theatre in 1999. Since then productions have included Il re pastore and Così fan tutte at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Don Giovanni at the Festwochen für Alte Musik in Innsbruck and Baden Baden Festival as well as several baroque operas, collaborating with conductors including René Jacobs, William Christie and Alessandro de Marchi. He also works on productions with young artists at various opera studios including those in Madrid, Ghent, Brussels and Lyon. His most recent productions were Louise at the Opéra National du Rhin, Hamlet at Marseille Opera, Agrippina and Candide at the Staatsoper in Berlin, I Capuleti e i Montecchi at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Oper Graz and San Francisco Opera, Carmen in Stockholm, Salome at the Theater St. Gallen and La finta giardiniera at the 2012 Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Future new productions include Madame Butterfly at the Hamburg State Opera, Radamisto at the Theater an der Wien (Vienna), Les Pêcheurs de Perles/The Pearl Fishers at the Opéra National du Rhin, Un ballo in maschera and La Favorite at the Théâtre National du Capitole in Toulouse and the Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny/Rise and Fall of Mahagonny at the Staatsoper in Berlin.