He has also directed operas, including Wagner’s Ringcyclein Bayreuth, which is considered one of the most influential stagings of operas worldwide, a very special version of Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte, and the critically acclaimed production of Janacek’s From the House of the Dead, which had its New York premiere with the Metropolitan Opera in 2009. He has also made a number of films among them the highly lauded Queen Margot (1994), L’Homme blesse (1983), Intimacy (2001), Gabrielle (2005), and Persecution (2009). In 2010, he was a guest curator at the Louvre where he incorporated dance, opera, theater, film and painting in a show titled Les Visages et les corps (Faces and Bodies).