Benjamin Lazar

Career Trajectory

Benjamin Lazar trained as an actor at the École Claude Mathieu while developing parallel expertise in violin and vocal performance, disciplines that would inform his later directorial practice. Beginning his professional career in the late 1990s, he quickly established himself as a specialist in baroque theatre and opera, directing productions that combined historical sensitivity with contemporary theatrical innovation. Now an established figure in French cultural institutions, Lazar continues to direct ambitious productions of early modern and contemporary music theatre, working regularly with major opera houses and concert venues across Europe.