Managing Director

Chrysoline Dupont, the new Chief Executive of the Opéra national du Rhin in 2026

Following a rigorous selection process conducted jointly by the cities of Strasbourg, Colmar and Mulhouse, the Ministry of Culture and the Grand Est Region, the recruitment panel recommended to the OnR’s union committee the appointment of Chrysoline Dupont as Director-General of the Opéra national du Rhin, with effect from 1 ^st July 2026. This appointment has been approved by the Minister for Culture.

On 1 ^st July 2026, Chrysoline Dupont will succeed Alain Perroux, who has held the post at the Opéra national du Rhin since January 2020. As Director-designate, she will begin in September 2024 to oversee the preparation and programming of the 2026/27 season and subsequent seasons.

The OnR’s trade union committee is delighted to welcome Chrysoline Dupont, the second woman to take up the post of Director-General in the history of the Opéra national du Rhin.

Anne Mistler
President of the Opéra national du Rhin

Biography

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.