Jean-Albert Cartier
Jean-Albert Cartier (15 May 1930 – 27 December 2015) was a French art critic and director of cultural institutions. He was director of the Paris Opera from 1989 to 1991.
Life
[edit]Born in Marseille, passionate about the visual arts, Cartier studied at the École du Louvre.[1] He was an art critic for 15 years at Combat.
In 1968, he founded the Ballet-Théâtre contemporain, then successively became director of the Grand Théâtre d'Angers and of the Centre national de danse contemporaine of Angers (1972-1978), director of the Ballet-Théâtre of Nancy (1978-1987). Cartier was also director of the Théâtre musical de Paris (1980-1988), administrator of the Paris Opera (1989-1991), delegate for music programmes at the music directorate at Radio France (1991-1993), general director of the Opéra de Nice (1994-1997), founder of the Europa Danse Project of Grasse in 1999 and president of the International Dance Institute with the Unesco.[1]
In 1987, he was nominated "Prix de la personnalité musicale de l'année du Syndicat de la critique".[2]
Works
[edit]- Le Manteau d'Arlequin, prefaces by Gérard Fromanger, Jiří Kylián and Jorge Lavelli. Paris, Éditions de l’Amandier, 304 p. ISBN 978-2-35516-261-9
- Modigliani. Nus, (Petite encyclopédie de l'art, 18), Paris, abc Fernand Hazan, 1958.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Renaud Machart. "Mort de Jean-Albert Cartier, ancien directeur du Théâtre du Châtelet". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 28 November 2018..
- ^ Armelle Heliot, Mort de Jean-Albert Cartier, grand serviteur de la musique et de la danse, Le Figaro, 31 December 2015.
