Paul Melchior

Paul Melchior
Born	1966/09/12
💼 Occupation	Editor, producer
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Paul Melchior (alias Frere Ermite) is a character invented by the editor and producer Pascal Maurice, born on September 12, 1966, in Nogent-sur-Marne (France).

During his early years of university studies, he founded the Singuliers magazine, of which he was the first editor, and in which André Comte-Sponville published one of his first texts.

In 1991, he published his first book, written by Elisabeth Pasquié of La Dépêche du Midi, on the choreographer Joseph Russillo, whose contribution to modern dance he rediscovered for the French public. Three works in less than two years followed on Eric Vu-An, by which he supported the dancer's career after his departure from the Paris Opera.

In 1993, he produced his first show in Paris at the Salle Favart, now the Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique, in partnership with Line Renaud, one year before the start of Sidaction, for the tenth anniversary of what was then the oldest association for the fight against AIDS created in France, VLS or Vaincre Le Sida, a show in which he enabled the ballerina Noëlla Pontois to celebrate her twenty-five years as a star of the Paris Opera.

He wrote and edited the first book on the actor Georges Wilson that Wilson accepted to be published.

He helped the monastic foundation of Saint-Lambert-des-Bois, notably with a new edition of the translation of the Book of Psalms by the Benedictines of this priory, and with the creation of the Pourlècherie.

In 2002, the singer Colette Renard called upon him to produce her latest album Ceux qui s'aiment, orchestrated by François Rauber and recorded at the Studio de la Grande Armée, as well as her final recital at the Théâtre Déjazet.

In 2006, he created the first version of Nos chants d'amour ou l'Impossible Spectacle at the Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet, which was revived at the Salle Adyar in 2008. On this occasion, he published translations for the stage of excerpts from the Book of Psalms, as well as William Shakespeare's Sonnets performed by Marie-Thérèse Orain.

He continues to write occasional texts, notably about Jacques Brel and Alain Levent.

In 2011, he presents three new musical shows: the tribute Clin d'œil à Colette Renard at the Studio des Ursulines with François Leterrier, Rebecca Hampton, Sinan Bertrand, Jacques Ferchit and Alexandre Laborde, the new revival of L'Impossible Spectacle entitled Arias à Irma d'un ermite disparu and, by his promotion, Le voyage à Satie.

In 2012, he is the first French publisher to publish a book on Franz Lehár that is not a collection of scores.

In 2013 he wrote with Rebecca Hampton Lettres de là-bas, the sequel to which appeared in 2018 under the title Nouvelles lettres de là-bas.

In 2017, he resumed editing the biennial journal Singuliers.

In 2018, he completes the publication, begun in 2014 with Lettres d'un ermite aux papes, of thirty years of correspondence, under the title Un ermite dans le showbiz.

He continues the production in Paris with Classic Musicals created by pianist Thibault Gomez and accordionist Charles Kieny, both from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, a concert whose premiere scheduled at the Salle Cortot, is canceled in 2020 due to the Coronavirus Pandemic ; he published the multimedia The Impossible Spectacle : Classic Musicals Salle Cortot Concert, before producing pianist Andrea Goretti's jazz album, "Silences (The Impossible Show)" as well as the feature film No-Shows No-Film for Ukraine" for the promotion of the book "Russian scams during the war in Ukraine".

His texts are since republished in English.

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