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André Diot

{{Short description|French cinematographer (born 1935)}}

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André Diot (born 1935{{cite web | url = http://www.cairn.info/revue-les-cahiers-de-mediologie-2000-2-page-245.htm | title = Jeux d'orgue / Créateur d'éclairages de spectacles | publisher = cairn.info | date = 2000 | pages = 245–254 | language = French | accessdate = 26 October 2013}}) is a French cinematographer and lighting designer. During his career, he designed the lighting for the 1976 Bayreuth Jahrhundertring, staged by Patrice Chéreau, the opening and closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, and in 2013 Così fan tutte at the Paris Opera.

Career

While a director of photography in television, Diot was introduced by Bernard Sobel to Patrice Chéreau, with whom he subsequently worked extensively. Their first joint creation was in 1967, for Les Soldats by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Diot then introduced Hydrargyrum medium-arc iodide lamp (HMI) theater projectors, usually reserved for the cinema or sports events. Until the mid-1980s, he used techniques such as black-and-white, backlighting and shadows to create an onstage environment of chiaroscuro, or of twilight, a poetic atmosphere that eventually became their joint trademark: Diot-Chéreau.{{cite book | last = Thibaudat | first = Jean-Pierre | title = Profession lumière, in Comédie-Française, Les Cahiers | year = 1991 | language = French | pages = 11–25}}

They worked together in Chéreau's first theatre, the Théâtre de Sartrouville, from 1966, in a team with together with stage designer Richard Peduzzi and costume designer Jacques Schmidt.{{cite news | url = http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2013/10/07/97001-20131007FILWWW00655-l-homme-de-theatre-patrice-chereau-est-mort.php | title = L'homme de théâtre Patrice Chéreau est mort |trans-title=Dramatist Patrice Chéreau dead | newspaper = Le Figaro | location = Paris | date = 7 October 2013 | language = French | accessdate = 11 October 2013}}

File:Gwyneth Chéreau (großer).jpg, part of the Ring Cycle, in the centenary production at the Bayreuth Festival, conducted by Pierre Boulez and staged by Patrice Chéreau, with Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde]]

As part of this team, he designed the lighting for the Jahrhundertring (Centenary Ring), the production of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, at the Bayreuth Festival celebrating the centenary of the festival and the cycle.{{cite web | url = http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb/besetzung/1976/6/2060/index.htm | title = Das Rheingold | publisher = Bayreuth Festival | language = German | accessdate = 24 October 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131024064325/http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/fsdb/besetzung/1976/6/2060/index.htm | archive-date = 24 October 2013 | url-status = dead }}{{cite news | last = Kirkup | first = James | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/patrice-chreau-film-theatre-and-opera-director-hailed-for-his-bayreuth-ring-cycle-and-for-la-reine-margot-8867348.html | title = Patrice Chéreau: Film, theatre and opera director hailed for his Bayreuth Ring Cycle and for La Reine Margot | newspaper = The Independent | location = London | date = 9 October 2013 | accessdate = 11 October 2013}} In 1992, he designed the lighting for {{Interlanguage link|Philippe Découflé|fr}} at the opening and closing ceremony of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.{{cite web | url = http://nerfoptik.free.fr/www.madeleine/spectacles/dpblanc.pdf | title = André Diot | publisher = Théâtre de la Madeleine | location = Paris | language = French | page = 15 | year = 2006 | accessdate = 26 October 2013}}

He has collaborated with other directors, including {{Interlanguage link|Philippe Avron|fr}}, {{Interlanguage link|Jean Jourdheuil|fr}}, Roger Planchon, Jean-Pierre Vincent and Jacques Weber. He designed the lighting for Peter Zadek's 1988 staging of Shakespeare's Der Kaufmann von Venedig at the Burgtheater, which took the action to a Wall Street background.{{cite web | url = http://www.adk.de/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/index.htm?we_objectID=31164 | title = 39 / William Shakespeare / Der Kaufmann von Venedig | publisher = Burgtheater | language = German | accessdate = 26 October 2013}} The artist's conversations with Zadek are part of a 2012 book Peter Zadek und seine Bühnenbildner (Peter Zadek and his stage directors), edited by {{Interlanguage link|Elisabeth Plessen|de}}.{{cite web | url = http://www.adk.de/de/aktuell/veranstaltungen/index.htm?we_objectID=31164 | title = Peter Zadek und seine Bühnenbildner | publisher = Academy of Arts, Berlin | language = German | accessdate = 26 October 2013}} In 2011, he designed the lighting for Janáček's Katya Kabanova at the Vienna State Opera, staged by {{Interlanguage link|André Engel|fr}}.{{cite web | url = http://theoperacritic.com/tocreviews2.php?review=mp/2011/vsokatya0611.htm | title = An impressive Katya | publisher = theoperacritic.com | accessdate = 26 October 2013}} In 2013, he designed the lighting for Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Paris Opera, staged by Ezio Toffolutti and conducted by Michael Schønwandt.{{cite web | url = http://www.operadeparis.fr/en/saison_2013_2014/operas/cosi-fan-tutte/detail/ | title = Così fan tutte | publisher = Paris Opera | language = French | accessdate = 26 October 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131029191709/http://www.operadeparis.fr/en/saison_2013_2014/operas/cosi-fan-tutte/detail/ | archive-date = 29 October 2013 | url-status = dead }}

Awards

Diot received the Molière Award in the category Best Lighting Design, in 2001 for Brecht's Le Cercle de craie caucasien,{{cite web | url = http://www.lesmolieres.com/2001 | title = Les lauréats 2001 | publisher = Les Molières | language = French | accessdate = 12 November 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131103220253/http://www.lesmolieres.com/2001 | archive-date = 3 November 2013 | url-status = dead }} in 2004 for {{Interlanguage link|L'Hiver sous la table|fr}},{{cite web | url = http://www.lesmolieres.com/2004 | title = Les lauréats 2004 | publisher = Les Molières | language = French | accessdate = 12 November 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131103220251/http://www.lesmolieres.com/2004 | archive-date = 3 November 2013 | url-status = dead }} directed by Zabou Breitman at the Théâtre de l'Atelier, in 2005 for Ödön von Horváth's Le Jugement dernier,{{cite web | url = http://www.lesmolieres.com/2005 | title = Les lauréats 2005 | publisher = Les Molières | language = French | accessdate = 12 November 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131103215830/http://www.lesmolieres.com/2005 | archive-date = 3 November 2013 | url-status = dead }} and in 2006 for Shakespeare's Le Roi Lear,{{cite web|url=http://www.lesmolieres.com/2006 |title=Les lauréats 2006 |publisher=Les Molières |language=French |accessdate=12 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103221257/http://www.lesmolieres.com/2006 |archivedate=3 November 2013 }} directed by André Engel. He was nominated in 2007 for Blanc by Emmanuelle Marie, staged again by Breitman.{{cite web | url = http://www.lesmolieres.com/Websites/lesmolieres/Images/C%C3%A9r%C3%A9monie%202007/NOMINATIONS%202007.pdf | title = Nominations 2007 | publisher = Les Molières | language = French | page = 2 | accessdate = 12 November 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131113001045/http://www.lesmolieres.com/Websites/lesmolieres/Images/C%C3%A9r%C3%A9monie%202007/NOMINATIONS%202007.pdf | archive-date = 13 November 2013 | url-status = dead }}

Filmography

= Selected theatre productions =

= Selected film productions =

References

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External links

  • [http://www.lesarchivesduspectacle.net/?IDX_Personne=2887 André Diot], Les Archives du Spectacle
  • {{IMDb name| name = André Diot|id=0228069}}
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023105138/http://thejournalist.ie/entertainment/film-news-patrice-chereau-world-renowned-french-director-dies-paris/ Film News / Patrice Chéreau, World Renowned French Director, Dies in Paris] The Journalist 8 October 2013

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Category:Lighting designers

Category:French cinematographers

Category:1935 births

Category:Living people