Catherine Verheyde
After earning a degree in history, Catherine Verheyde trained at the National School of Theatre Arts and Techniques (ENSATT), in the lighting department. She further developed her skills with Gérald Karlikow, then Jennifer Tipton and Richard Nelson.
Her professional career began in the theater, where she worked as a lighting designer for directors such as Philippe Labonne and Jean-Christian Grinevald. However, it was with Jacques Osinski, whom she met in 1994, that she began a decisive collaboration. Their first play, Knut Hamsun's Hunger, marked the beginning of a long series of projects, including Mart's Shadow, The Dream, The Factory, Woyzeck, The Ugly, The Miser, Lenz, Heading for Worst, The Last Tape, Endgame, and more recently, The English Lover and Waiting for Godot.
Alongside her work with J. Osinski, Catherine Verheyde collaborates with numerous other directors, including Benoît Bradel, Pierre Louis-Calixte, Pierre-Yves Chapalain, Gretel Delattre, Thierry Harcourt, Johan Leysen, Christine Montalbetti, Marie Potonet, Geneviève Rosset, and Cosima Weiter.
She has designed lighting for dance performances, creating lighting for choreographers such as Dominique Dupuy, Clara Gibson-Maxwell, François Raffinot, Aude Rosset, and Laura Scozzi. She has also participated in numerous contemporary art exhibitions, contributing to the lighting design in various venues, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Musée du Luxembourg, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Prato, and La Ferme de Villefavard.
Catherine Verheyde has also designed lighting for numerous contemporary music concerts for IRCAM, the Ensemble Intercontemporain (EIC), and Le Balcon. Since her first experience in the world of opera, for the light of Maurice Ohana's Marriage Under the Sea, she has worked on numerous productions such as Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Tchaikovsky's Iolanta at the Capitole de Toulouse, Rameau's Platée in Tourcoing and Versailles, Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat and De Falla's L'Amour sorcier at the MC2 Grenoble and the Opéra-Comique.
More recently, her commitment to opera continues with collaborations on works by K.H. Stockhausen: Samstag aus Licht and Dienstag aus Licht, F. Fiszbein: Cosmos, G. Benjamin: Into the Little Hill, and T. Coult: Violet.