Christophe Pitoiset Lighting designer

Trained at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre, Christophe Pitoiset made his theatrical lighting debut with La Nuit et le Moment by Crébillon fils, directed by Jean-Louis Thamin at the Théâtre du port de la lune in Bordeaux. In 1993, he became lighting designer for Dominique Pitoiset's shows, including Goethe's Faust, Goncharov's Oblomov, Kafka's Le Procès, Koltès' La Nuit juste avant les forêts, Schiller's Les Brigands, Shakespeare's La Tempête, Molière's Tartuffe and Balzac's La Peau de chagrin. At the same time, he lights choreographies by José Montalvo (La Gloire de Jérôme, Paradis, Le Jardin Io Io Ito Ito) and Faizal Zeghoudi (Le Sacre du printemps).

For Georgian director Rézo Gabriadzé, he designed the lighting for Chant pour la Volga and L'Automne de mon printemps. In opera, he created the lighting for operas directed by Dominique Pitoiset, including Les Noces de Figaro at the Opéra de Lausanne, Macbeth at the Théâtre royal de Parme, L'isola disabitata and Didon et Énée for the Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris, Le Tour d'écrou at the Opéra national de Bordeaux, La Bohème at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse and, more recently, Manon Lescaut at the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. A member of the Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab company, he has been involved in productions of Peer Gynt, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Butterfly, itinéraire d'une jeune femme désorientée, Salomé, Serse, the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy at La Monnaie in Brussels, La Mort à Venise at Opéra national du Rhin, Rusalka and La Somnambule at Opéra de Rome.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Le Rire de la lyre, 1999; Falstaff, 2017