Agathe Mélinand is a director, dramaturg and librettist in theatre and opera. Her most recent work includes a dialogue translation for Gypsy (Paris Philharmonie) and an adaptation of Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoe (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) with her regular collaborator Laurent Pelly. Other work features adaptions of La Chauve-Souris (Opéra de Lille), Lakmé (Opéra Comique), La périchole (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées) and Offenbach’s Le voyage dans la Lune (Opéra Comique/Greek National Opera/Volksoper). She adapted Béatrice et Bénédict for the Glyndebourne Festival and wrote additional texts (derived from Goethe’s Faust) for Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust directed by Richard Jones. Recent theatre work includes Goldoni’s L’Impresario de Smyrne, and the French-language premiere of Harvey by Mary Chase. She also wrote and realised Le Petit Livre d’Anna Magdalena Bach and translated, adapted, wrote and realised works such as Monsieur le 6, Tennessee Williams – Short Stories, Histoire de Babar le Petit Elephant, Erik Satie – Mémoires d'un Amnésique and Enfance et Adolescence de Jean Santeuil (an adaptation of Marcel Proust).