The Costuming of Power, Opera and Cinema

General Curator of libraries

From 1970 to 2009, Noëlle Giret managed the Theatrical and Cinematic Documentation Centre at the University of Lyon II, the Library-Museum of the French Film Library and joined the performing arts department of the National Library of France. She has been responsible for numerous exhibitions dedicated to the cinema and performing arts including: Yvette Guilbert. Storyteller at the end of the century National Library of France / Musées d’Aix-en-Provence / Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, 1994, Les Pitoëff. Destines of the Theatre. NLF, 1996 and publication by Georges Pitoëff. The Ideal Stage Manager, Actes Sud, 2001, Renaud-Barrault, NLF, 1999, The clowns, NLF, 2001, The Circus in the 19^th century, Mairie du VIe arr., 2001, Gérard Philipe. An actor of his time, Paris / Cannes, 2003, Sacha Guitry. The Life of an Artist, co-production French Film Library / NLF, 2007, Ionesco, NLF, 2009 and Unusual Forms and materials of stage costumes, CNCS, 2011.

General Libraries Curator

Martine Kahane was director of The National Center for Stage Costumes from 2006 to 2011. General libraries curator, Martine Kahane has endeavored for thirty-five years to help create the memoirs of the National Opera of Paris. First she managed the Library-Museum of the Opera (attached to the National Library of France), before creating and managing the Cultural department at the request of Hugues Gall, then director of the National Opera of Paris. The Palais Garnier is her preferred choice, the 19th century her favorite period, The little fourteen-year-old dancer by Degas her favorite work of art, resulting in twenty exhibitions and just as many publications on the architecture of Charles Garnier, the costume workshops and ballet company of the Opera, the Russian Ballets by Diaghilev…

Scenographer and graphic designer

Graduated from the ATEP (school of visual communication and graphic design), he opened a set workshop in Paris and divides his time between the design of furniture and lighting, event scenography and has been associated with Alain Batifoulier as a sceneographer and graphic designer for more than 10 years for exhibitions at the National Library of France, the Carnavalet Museum, the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism, the Galliera Museum, the House of Victor Hugo, the CNCS, as well as the Louis Vuitton Cultural Area in Paris.

Scenographer, costume designer and exhibition museographer

After studying at the School of Fine Arts in Lyon, he devoted himself to scenography, the creation of stage costumes, design and graphics for exhibitions. He has worked in theatre with directors like Daniel Mesguich, Marcel Maréchal, Pierre Debauche, Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz, Pierre Pradinas, Philippe Faure on more than one hundred and fifty productions illustrating the greatest classics: Euripide, Shakespeare, Molière, Racine… and contemporary works: Valère Novarina, Charles Juliet, Jacques Audiberti… He works in the creation of contemporary musical works: Marius Constant, Luciano Berio, for the lyric at the Opera of Paris with Carmen, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels for the La Passion de Gilles de Rais by Philippe Boesmans (creation) and la Scala in Milan for Il Giardino Religioso by Bruno Maderna. He has also organized exhibition areas at the National Library of France for more than eleven projects including Ionesco (2009), the Museum of the Art and History of Judaism with The Splendor of Camondo (2009), the Galliera Museum Under the Empire of the Crinolines (2008), the Carnavalet Museum with among others Paris of les Misérables (2008), the CNCS for The Unusual (2011) and Behind the scenes (2012). In the domain of contemporary art, a long collaboration with the Passage de Retz, and a renewed presence at the Louis Vuitton cultural area in Paris.