![]() “Henceforth, the Théâtre du Châtelet, which Jean-Luc Choplin takes over in September, will be hot pink, shocking and kitsch,” announced Le Monde in 2006, after the first posters appeared for the season’s inaugural operetta, Francis Lopez’s Le Chanteur de Mexico, portraying a cheeky toreador festooned with flowers. Choplin was right about one thing, though – a chorus of critics awaited him when he started work three years later. Nevertheless, the Mayor of Paris did name him the next Directeur Général du Théâtre du Châtelet. “I worked at Disney the whole Parisian cultural establishment would consider it sacrilegious!” His career profile was indeed unique: a series of high-level regional and national management appointments in the arts interrupted by a long foray into the private sector, including his tenure at the Walt Disney Company. ![]() “I told him Mayor Delanoë would never have me,” Choplin recalls. ![]() An old friend happened to be on the theatre’s board and thought Choplin would be perfect for the job. ![]() Jean-Luc Choplin still remembers the day in 2003 he learned that the directorship of the Théâtre du Châtelet was soon to become vacant. ![]()
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