François Girard OC[1] (born January 12, 1963) is a French Canadian director and screenwriter from Montreal. Born in Saint-Félicien, Quebec, Girard's career began on the Montreal art video circuit. In 1990, he produced his first feature film, Cargo; he attained international recognition following his 1993 Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, a series of vignettes about the life of piano prodigy Glenn Gould. In 1998, he wrote and directed The Red Violin, which follows the ownership of a red violin over several centuries. The Red Violin won an Academy Award for Best Original Score, thirteen Genie Awards and nine Jutra Awards.
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| Born | January 12, 1963 Saint-Félicien, Quebec, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1990–present |
He has also directed various works for the stage, including Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms, Oedipus Rex, and Alessandro Baricco's Novecento at the Edinburgh International Festival; Kafka's The Trial, adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe at the National Arts Centre, Ottawa; the oratorio Lost Objects at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Siegfried in Toronto; and The Lindbergh Flight and The Seven Deadly Sins, first in Lyon and then in Edinburgh. Girard has also produced a residency show for Cirque du Soleil, Zed, in Tokyo and Zarkana, which opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York in the summer of 2011.[2]
In 2013, the Metropolitan Opera in New York opened a new production of Richard Wagner's Parsifal directed by Girard.[3] The production received near universal acclaim from critics and audiences alike.[3][4]
His television credits include Le dortoir, Peter Gabriel's Secret World and The Sound of the Carceri, one of the six episodes of Yo Yo Ma Inspired by Bach.
Filmography
edit- Cargo (1990)
- Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
- The Red Violin (1998)
- Silk (2007)
- Boychoir (2014)
- Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017)
- The Song of Names (2019)
References
edit- ^ "Order of Canada appointees - June 2022". 21 June 2022. Retrieved 2022-06-29.
- ^ "Official Cirque du Soleil Press Release". Archived from the original on 2017-12-25. Retrieved 2010-09-15.
- ^ a b Tommasini, Anthony (17 February 2013). "Dark Nights of the Soul in the Kingdom of the Holy Grail". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
- ^ Stearns, David Patrick. "Review: Metropolitan Opera's Entrancing and Enigmatic Parsifal". WQXR. New York Public Radio. Retrieved 23 August 2015.