Philippe Béziat

For the cinema, Philippe Béziat has directed 4 opera-documentaries: Gallant Indies (2021), with Clément Cogitore, Leonard Garcìa Alarcòn, Bintou Dembélé and some thirty dancers from hip-hop, krump, break, voguing... Nominated for the César for Best Documentary 2022 and the Lumière Prize, the film has sold nearly 90,000 tickets in France; Becoming Traviata (2012), with Natalie Dessay and Jean-François Sivadier; Noces : Stravinsky-Ramuz (2012), with Dominique Reymond and Mirella Giardelli; and Pelléas and Mélisande : The Song of the Blind (2009), with Olivier Py and Marc Minkowski.

Also for the cinema, he is currently working on L'Orchestre, a symphony-documentary about the Orchestre de Paris.

For television, Philippe Béziat is the author of documentaries such as De mémoire d'orchestre - L'Orchestre National de France (2004), co-written for Arte with Christian Labrande on the occasion of the symphonic ensemble's 60th anniversary, his first film devoted to an orchestral group, Claudio Monteverdi, aux sources de l'Opéra (2017), with the Concerto Italiano or Jacques Prévert, paroles inattendues (2017).

Written with the writer Sylvain Prudhomme around the characters in his novel The Greats, his film Super Mama Djombo (2022), shot over five years in Montreuil, Lisbon and Bissau, will soon be broadcast by Arte. He is also shooting a documentary series for France3-Lille, Studio 7, which will accompany the student actors of the École du Nord over three seasons, from 2021 to 2024.

Philippe Béziat also films operas, ballets, concerts and plays: Italienne scène et orchestre by Jean-François Sivadier (2020) recreated for the camera at the MC93, David and Salomon (2021), a program of sacred music by Heinrich Schütz by Les cris de Paris, Molière's Dom Juan (2022) directed by Emmanuel Daumas for the Comédie Française’s troupe at the Vieux-Colombier playhouse and, as part of the last Aix-en-Provence Festival, Mahler's Symphony no. 2 Resurrection (2022) conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen at the helm of the Orchestre de Paris in Romeo Castellucci's production at the Vitrolles Stadium.

Also with the Orchestre de Paris, in November 2020, in the Philharmonie's Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, that the absence of an audience makes it possible to transform into a studio, Philippe Béziat brings Pascal Dusapin's opera Penthesilea, conducted by Ariane Matiakh, to life in a setting designed to encompass singers, chorus and orchestra. Philippe Béziat has also directed short musical films: in 1998, Le JT, petit opéra, based on Fearful Symmetries by John Adams, with Luc-Antoine Diquéro and Charlotte Clamens; in 2003, Musica da camera, based on Madrigals by Georges Crumb, with Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Françoise Rivalland and Christophe Saunière ; in 2019, based on one of Pierre Bergé's last interviews and a piano transcription of Wagner's opera : Le Crépuscule des dieux, co-created with Gordon for the 3e Scène, the Paris Opéra's digital platform.

He also directs or collaborates in the staging of musical shows such as Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (2018), with Antoine Gindt and Leo Warynski at the Festival Musica and the Philharmonie de Paris, Claude Debussy's Pelléas and Mélisande (2018), with Florent Siaud and Marc Minkowski at the Auditorium de l'Opéra de Bordeaux and in Kanazawa, Japan, and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein(2013), with the company Les Brigands throughout France.