on March 4, 2025, former opera director Jean-Louis Pichon died at the age 76. Le Progrès reported that the police found his lifeless body at his home in Saint-Etienne late Tuesday, March 4. Pichon was born on Sept. 18, 1948, and went on to study classics. He then researched theatre and in 1969 attended a master’s thesis devoted to Racine’s {…}