Christian Longchamp
Dramaturge
Christian Longchamp is an author and a freelance dramaturg. He was born in Lausanne and lives in Brussels. He studied art history and philosophy in Geneva and at the Sorbonne in Paris. He began his career organizing exhibitions on contemporary artists and film makers. Since 2004 he has worked as a curator at the Louvre Auditorium (2004—7); as artistic adviser, dramaturg and head of publications at La Monnaie in Brussels (2007—14); and as dramaturg and head of publications at the Paris Opéra (2014—16). From 2016 to 2019 he was artistic adviser to Eva Kleinitz at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg.
Christian Longchamp has worked as a dramaturg on several of Romeo Castellucci’s productions, notably Orfeo ed Euridice at the Vienna Festival and at La Monnaie, Moses und Aron and Alessandro Scarlatti’s Il primo omicidio at the Paris Opéra, Schwanengesang D 744 — based on Schubert Lieder — at the Festival d’Avignon, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre at La Monnaie, Stabat Mater — based on Pergolesi and Scelsi — in Geneva and Rome and Pelléas et Mélisande at La Scala, Milan.
He is also Krzysztof Warlikowski’s dramaturg, and has worked with him on the following productions: Don Carlos, Bluebeard’s Castle / La Voix humaine, Hamlet and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District at the Paris Opéra; Macbeth, Lulu, Don Giovanni, Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Cherubini’s Médée at La Monnaie; L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Teatro Real in Madrid; Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence; Wozzeck at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam; From the House of the Dead at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Káťa Kabanová at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and The Bassarids, Elektra, Macbeth and The Idiot at the Salzburg Festival.
He writes regularly on politics and culture. He has edited and co-authored the books Louis Soutter : Si le soleil me revenait, Syberberg / Paris / Nossendorf and Pour une autre Italie. In September 2026 he will publish his new book Les Vivants hantent les fantômes. Fragments d’Europe (Flammarion). He is the editorial director of Dialogos, a new online European magazine devoted to literature and music, which is published by the Centre Européen de la Culture in Geneva and which will be launching in October.
