Philippe Béziat

Philippe Béziat has made several documentaries including Passions d’opéra – 60 ans d’art lyrique à Aix-en-Provence (2008, 55′ for the Ina, Arte, and France 2), De mémoire d’orchestre with the Orchestre National de France (2004, 2 x 43′ for Arte), Mozart, Ligeti et Le Banquet (2001, 52′ for Mezzo). His documentary work has made it possible for him to work with the Italian conductor and harpsichord player, Rinaldo Alessandrini for Gloria by Vivaldi (2010, 43′ for Arte), Rinaldo Alessandrini enregistre les Concertos Brandebourgeois (2005, 43′ for naïve, Mezzo, and Classica) and recently Les Quatre Saisons d’Antoine (2012, 35′, France 3). With Marc Minkowski  he produced Les musiciens du Louvre – Paroles d’orchestre (2003, 52′ for France 2) and La Belle Hélène (2000, 26′ pour Mezzo), Pour Sainte-Cécile (2009, 88′ for Arte), Berlioz à Versailles (2011, 90’, for Arte), and the opera-documentary Pelléas et Mélisande, le chant des aveugles directed by Olivier Py, released in March 2009.

During the 2007 of the Verbier Festival, Philippe Béziat produced the direct Online broadcast of 11 concerts. He recorded La pietra del paragone, by Gioacchino Rossini, directed by G.B.Corsetti and Pierrick Sorin, Des Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner, and Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy, both productions by Robert Wilson, Tourbillons by Georges Aperghis and Olivier Cadiot, Ta Bouche by Maurice Yvain and Docteur Ox by Jacques Offenbach by the company Les Brigands, Les Contes d’Hoffmann directed by Olivier Py and Caligula by Nicolas Le Riche and Guillaume Gallienne as well as Ring Saga, a version of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle produced Antoine Gindt.

Philippe Béziat has also produced several short fiction films. In February 2012, his film Noces that told the story of Ramuz and Stravinsky during the premiere of the eponymous work was released. In October of the same year he released Traviata et nous, an opera-documentary on Jean-François Sivadier’s during the Aix-en-Provence festival in 2011 with Natalie Dessay and Louis Langrée at the head of the London Symphony Orchestra. Traviata et nous was presented at the  50th New York Film Festival.