About
Guillaume Bernardi is a stage director, a dramaturge and a teacher based in Toronto. His directorial work covers a wide range of genres, from theater and opera to movement pieces. Recent directorial projects include the staging of Handel’s Orlando for Stoni Brook University, La Giuditta, a Baroque Oratorio, for the Frankfurt Oper and two different productions of Vozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro for the Frankfurt Oper and the Canadian Opera Company. Bernardi has collaborated with several important artists, like Rene Jacobs and Stephen Stubbs, singers like Andreas Scholl and Suzie LeBlanc, andearly music groups, like the Yale Baroque Opera Project and Pacific Musicworks. In Toronto he has worked with the Toronto Continuo Collective and I Furiosi Baroque Ensemble.
He regularly conducts workshops on the declamation and delivery of Italian Baroque librettos, in particular on the operas of Francesco Cavalli, as he has done now ona few occasions for the Toronto Consort and for the Festial d’Aix en Provence lastsummer.
Bernardi holds a doctorate from the Paris-Sorbonne University. He teaches in the Drama Studies Programme at Glendon College, the bilingual faculty of York University.