Managing Director

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris in 2004, Chrysoline Dupont accepted Gérard Mortier’s invitation in 2007 to join his team at the Opéra National de Paris as a project manager. She was tasked with revitalising the Opéra-Université programme and managing the Studio Bastille and the Amphitheatre.

In 2009, she joined Bernard Foccroulle’s team at the Festival d’Aix- en-Provence and supported projects by leading artists such as Katie Mitchell, Peter Sellars, George Benjamin and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

In 2015, she became director of programming for the Orchestre de chambre de Paris. Together with its chief executive, Nicolas Drouin, she pursues an ambitious artistic policy. She works to address the issue of cultural rights through multidisciplinary performances aimed at under-represented audiences and, alongside the 43 permanent musicians, is committed to promoting gender equality, notably through the establishment of academies dedicated to young female composers.

In 2022, she worked with Louis Langrée to prepare a joint bid for the directorship of the Théâtre national de l’Opéra-Comique. As Head of the Artistic Department, she worked alongside him to shape the theatre’s programme, provide strategic oversight of artistic and cultural initiatives, coordinate their implementation with the production teams, and manage a new academy. In this role, she is tasked with exploring new models for opera production: devising projects with a strong social and environmental dimension, raising the Opéra-Comique’s international profile through a robust network of partners, and seeking out artists whose vision can breathe new life into the opera genre for audiences of today and tomorrow.

In July 2026, Chrysoline Dupont succeeded Alain Perroux as General Director of the Opéra national du Rhin, becoming only the second woman to hold that position in the institution’s history.