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Moshe Leiser, born 1956 in Antwerp and Patrice Caurier born 1954 in Paris are two opera directors who have worked exclusively as a couple since 1983.

They stage productions at theaters in Western Europe.

Life and work

The two directors began their collaboration in 1983 at the Opéra National de Lyon with the opera A Midsummer Night's Dream which is also the work of a duo: Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears jointly adapted Shakespeare's play and wrote the libretto; Britten composed and conducted; and Pears created the comic role of Flute/Thisbe, and later sang Lysander.

Since this premiere, Leiser and Caurier have lived and worked together continuously. Jasper Rees wrote that this collaboration of more than 30 years has made them "opera's closest equivalent to Gilbert and George".^[1]

For a long time the Belgian-French director duo worked exclusively in France and the French part of Switzerland with occasional productions at the S