Oriol Tomas is a director who conducts circus productions, operas, theatre and galas alike. A few years ago, he started collaborating with companies who fuse creativity and technology to offer multisensorial experiences, mixing contemporary dance, acoustic music or electronic and video mapping.
In 2024, he notably directed his new creation paired with the Cirque du Soleil titled Sublim, dans in Andorra, as well as Verdi’s La Traviata for the Massy Opera in Paris and Alt-Escape, a multimedia performance of the Vidéo Phase team that will be presented in the context of Festival Seine Canada for the Paris Olympic Games.
Oriol Tomas also directed Sauguet’s Les Caprices de Marianne in more than fifteen French opera houses. Earning him the Grand Prix Claude Rostand 2015 for best lyrical show awarded by the Syndicat de la Critique Théâtre, Musique et Danse of France.
During these lasts few years, he has signed a number of stagings and creations on the international scene, notably Festa with the Cirque du Soleil in Andorra in 2023, La Traviata by Verdi at the Icelandic Opera in collaboration with Normal Studio, Don Giovanni by Mozart at the Opéra de Tours and the Reims Opera, Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess with the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra, Twenty-seven by Ian Gordon at the Montreal Opera and Beethoven’s Leonore for the Lafayette Opera in Washington DC and in New York. In addition, he has worked with Quebec’s Opera Festival, Edmonton Opera, Manitoba Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Casino of Montréal, Quebec’s Music Counsel, 7 Doigts de la Main, Circo de Bakuza, Centaur Theatre, Jeunesses Musicales Canada, Metropolitan Orchestra and more.
Along with having his Masters in opera direction at the Superior Theatre School of the University of Quebec in Montreal, he has a degree in theatre performance. He sits on several juries and teaches playing techniques to singers of the Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal, the University of Montreal, the University of Ottawa, the Music Conservatory of Montreal, the Music Academy of Domaine Forget, the Pacific Opera Victoria's Young Artist Program and of Montreal’s Folyestivale.
