After studies at École Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris, Antoine Fontaine realises restorations and painted decors to many monuments (e.g. Passage Colbert at theBibliothèque Nationale, salle du Capitole de Toulouse, ceiling of the Musée de la Chasse, Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie d’Aubusson, salle de l’Elysée Montmartre, théâtre impérial de Fontainebleau’s stage curtain).

He has been working as set designer for opera and cinema since 1986. His work can be seen in La Reine Margot by P. Chéreau, Un Divan à New-York by Chantal Akerman, L’Anglaise et le Duc and Triple Agent by Eric Rohmer, St Jacques la Mecque by Corinne Serreau. He also created painted decors for Vatel by R. Joffé, Marie-Antoinette by Sofia Coppola, Océans by J. Perrin, and J’accuse, by Roman Polanski. He worked as a part-time professor at the Decorative Arts and FEMIS.

He also designs the scenography for many exhibitions: Kang Xi, La Cité Interdite at the Versailles castle, Splendeur de la cour de Saxe, also at Versailles, Les années folles 1919-1929 at the Palais Galliéra, Monuments, stars du 7^ème art at the Conciergerie, Brassens ou la liberté and recently Barbara at the Philarmonie de Paris.

Antoine Fontaine also works for the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and the Opéra Bastille. He was set designer for La Chauve Souris (2002), Le Barbier de Séville (2002) andManon (2010) He also created the set design for Richard cœur de lion by Gétry, for Marshall Pinkoski at the Opéra Royal de Versailles.

At the Capitole de Toulouse, he was the set designer of the Maitres chanteurs’s decors (2002) for N. Joel and Hippolyte et Aricie’s (2009) for Ivan Alexandre. Lately, he was stage director for Casse-Noisette for Kader Berarbi (2017) and La Traviata (2018) for Pierre Rambert.

With Marc Minkowski, he made decors and costumes for Lucio Silla (Salzbourg’s festival, 2012), and with Ivan Alexandre made La Chauve Souris (Opéra Comique, 2014) and La trilogie Da Ponte at the Royal Drottningholm theater, in Sweden (2015-2017), which was renewed at the Opéra Royal de Versailles.

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