Chloé Lechat is a Franco-Swiss author and director based in Berlin. After studying piano and singing at the Rouen Conservatory, she graduated from the Stage Management and Performance Techniques department of the École supérieure d'art dramatique du Théâtre national de Strasbourg under the direction of Stéphane Braunschweig.

In 2019, her opera libretto project, Les Sentinelles, was supported by the Beaumarchais-SACD and La Chartreuse-CNES writing grants, as well as writing support from the Ministry of Culture. Two years later, she was awarded a prize by the Cité Internationale des Arts Writing Commission.

 

As a director, Chloé Lechat directed La Traviata at the Limoges Opera, then at the Opéra Grand Avignon, where she is currently an artist in residence. She explores the myth of the character of The Lady of the Camellias . The themes addressed in this work, such as inequality between men and women and the perpetual construction of hierarchies, resonate with her own research.

 

During the 2023-2024 season, she collaborates with the Paris Chamber Orchestra at the Cité de la Musique for a project that highlights the composer Germaine Tailleferre.

In the fall of 2024, she will direct her opera libretto Les Sentinelles , composed by Clara Olivares, at the Bordeaux Opera, the Limoges Opera and the Opéra Comique in Paris.

 

The start of the 2025-2026 season will be marked by the end of her artist residency in Avignon: Chloé Lechat will stage Gustav Mahler's symphony Das Lied von der Erde with the Opera Ballet.

 

She enriched her practice by participating in the Opera in Creation masterclass of the Academy of the International Festival of Lyric Art of Aix-en-Provence, under the direction of Pascal Dusapin, in the ENOA Opera & Writing workshop of the Dutch National Opera & Ballet of Amsterdam as well as in 2025 in the Women Opera Makers workshop designed by the director Katie Mitchell.