巴黎巴士底歌剧院(隶属于巴黎歌剧院)的现任总监尼古拉斯·乔尔(NicolasJoёl),声称他的个人喜好不会对舞台演出产生任何影响,对此我们将信将疑。但不管乔尔喜欢与否,他确实同意将美籍德裔作曲家保罗·欣德米特的《画家马蒂斯》添加为巴黎歌剧院的保留剧目。根据歌剧院以往的演出记录,虽然《画家马蒂斯》是欣德米特最著名的代表作,但自1951年以来,巴黎歌剧院就再未演出过该剧。乔尔的前任杰拉德·莫迪埃(Gerard Mortier)偏爱欣德米特的另一部歌剧《卡地拉克》——一个生动活泼节奏紧凑的故事。而《画家马蒂斯》正好相反,未经删减的歌剧长达3 Nicolas Joël, the current director of the Bastille Opera in Paris (part of the Paris Opera), is skeptical of his claim that his personal preferences will not have any impact on the stage. But regardless of Joel’s liking or not, he did agree to add “painter Matisse,” a biographer of the German-American composer Paul Hindemith, as a repertoire of the Paris Opera. According to past records of the Opera House, although “painter Matisse” is the most famous representative of Hindermeister, since 1951, the Paris Opera House has not performed the show again. Joel’s predecessor, Gerard Mortier, preferred Hindemith’s other opera, “Cardilac,” a lively and rhythmical story. The “painter Matisse” on the contrary, an unabated opera up to 3