Louis Ducreux

Louis Ducreux , born on September 22nd 1911 with Marseilles, and dead on December 21st 1992 with Paris, is an actor, author, director and French theater director.

Biography

Raised in an impassioned family of theater and opera, it creates at twenty years the company of the gray Curtain in Marseilles. This troop of amateurs is joined in 1933 by André Roussin and Georges Wakhevitch, making it possible Ducreux to devote itself to the setting in scene for the troop.

It enters to the Comedy of Lyon, and writes its first parts ( Clearly-Obscure , Light music and Souvenir Italy ). In 1943, it animates the Studio of the Fields-Élysées.

It directs then the Opéra of Marseilles (1961-1965 and 1968-1971), the Opéra of Monte Carlo (1965-1972) and the large theater of Nancy (1973-1977). It there diversifies the repertory with Berg, Britten or Poulenc, and puts in scene some operas.

It also leads a career to the cinema, as actor and type-setter, and takes part in the emission With the theater this evening as actor and director. Author of songs, it writes in particular, in 1955, on a Co-made up music with André Popp, the words of the street ignites which becomes traditional song with text thanks to interpretations of Michele Arnaud and of Cora Vaucaire.

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • Sources: Obituary, Humanity, December 22nd, 1992.

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