{"id":28455,"date":"2026-03-02T20:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/?post_type=cast&#038;p=28455"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:06:00","slug":"28455","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/28455\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbe &#038; Doucet, Creative Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Renaud Doucet <\/strong>(stage director and choreographer) and <strong>Andr\u00e9 Barbe <\/strong>(set and costume designer) specialize in dramaturgy, stage direction, sets and costume design. Recent engagements include <strong>La Fille du R\u00e9giment<\/strong> (Donizetti) at Teatro La Fenice and Teatro Regio di Torino; <strong>La Boh\u00e8me<\/strong> (Puccini) at Op\u00e9ra National du Capitole de Toulouse and Scottish Opera;<strong> La Cenerentola<\/strong> (Rossini) and<strong> Die Fledermaus<\/strong> (J. Strauss) at Hamburg Staatsoper; <strong>Don Pasquale<\/strong> (Donizetti) at Canadian Opera Company; <strong>Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande<\/strong> (Debussy) at Teatro Regio di Parma and Op\u00e9ra Royal de Li\u00e8ge; <strong>Il Signor Bruschino<\/strong> (Rossini) at Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival and Teatro comunale di Bologna; <strong>Turandot<\/strong> (Puccini) and <strong>The Sound of Music<\/strong> (Rodgers) at Volksoper Wien; and <strong>La Cenerentola<\/strong> (Rossini) at Latvian National Opera and Op\u00e9ra National du Capitole de Toulouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\" dir=\"ltr\">After separate beginnings in music, theatre, dance, television and opera, <strong> Barbe &#038; Doucet<\/strong>\u00a0joined forces in 2000. Since then, they have created together over 50 new opera productions recognized for their creativity, sense of spectacle and minutely detailed dramaturgy. Andr\u00e9 Barbe received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University and studied at the National Theatre School of Canada under designer Fran\u00e7ois Barbeau. He has designed over 300 productions for theatre, television and opera, receiving the 2005 Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for best designer for <strong>P\u00e9n\u00e9lope<\/strong> (Faur\u00e9) at Wexford Festival Opera and the 2011 Rolf-Mares Prize for best sets and costumes for <strong>La Cenerentola<\/strong> (Rossini) at Hamburgische Staatsoper. A trained musician, Renaud Doucet began his performing career as a solo dancer, ballet master and choreographer in international dance companies. He also worked as an actor in French films and TV series and was introduced to opera as baroque choreographer and gesture specialist, coaching singers such as Alfredo Kraus, Jaime Aragall, Raina Kabaivanska and Mirella Freni. Their work as a team gained international recognition with their production of <strong>Cendrillon<\/strong> (Massenet) at Op\u00e9ra national du Rhin, Op\u00e9ra de Marseille, New York City Opera, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and Op\u00e9ra de Montr\u00e9al. In 2019 their production of <strong>Il Bravo<\/strong> (Mercadante) received the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera Production. Their productions of <strong>La Fille du R\u00e9giment<\/strong> (Donizetti), <strong>Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/strong> (Mozart), <strong>Il Bravo<\/strong>, <strong>La Grande Duchesse de<\/strong> <strong>Gerolstein<\/strong> (Offenbach), <strong>La Belle H\u00e9l\u00e8ne<\/strong> (Offenbach), <strong>Il Signor Bruschino<\/strong> and <strong>Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande<\/strong>\u00a0are presented on various platforms, TV channels and cinemas in numerous countries. <strong>La Belle H\u00e9l\u00e8ne<\/strong> and <strong>Die Zauberfl\u00f6te<\/strong> are available on DVD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renaud Doucet (stage director and choreographer) and Andr\u00e9 Barbe (set and costume designer) specialize in dramaturgy, stage direction, sets and costume design. Recent engagements include La Fille du R\u00e9giment (Donizetti) at Teatro La Fenice and Teatro Regio di Torino; La Boh\u00e8me (Puccini) at Op\u00e9ra National du Capitole de Toulouse and Scottish Opera; La Cenerentola (Rossini) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":28453,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"creator-type":[149,128],"class_list":["post-28455","cast","type-cast","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","creator-type-designers-choreographers","creator-type-director-conductor"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barbe &amp; Doucet, Creative Team | The Israeli Opera<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"All the information about Barbe &amp; Doucet, Creative Team \u2013 The Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv-Yafo. 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