Bernard Uzan's extensive background in the arts includes success as a general director, artistic director, stage director, designer, librettist, actor, artist manager, and most recently a published novelist.

As a stage director and a producer his productions have appeared on the stages of 50 opera companies in North America, France, Italy, Switzerland, and South America with more than 300 productions. He has co-designed productions of Manon, Manon Lescaut, Faust, Don Carlo, Andrea Chenier, Boito’s Mefistofele, Carmen, Romeo et Juliette, I Pagliacci, Fedora, Aida, and Suor Angelica that continue to be seen in North America.

In North America, he has directed productions with Arizona Opera, Baltimore Opera, Connecticut Opera, Dallas Opera, Dayton Opera, Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Fort Worth Opera, Greater Miami Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Kentucky Opera, Long Beach Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, New Orleans Opera, Opera Columbus, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Opera Pacific, Orlando Opera, Philadelphia Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Tulsa Opera, New Jersey State Opera, Opera Colorado, Canadian opera company, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Winnipeg Opera, Vancouver Opera, Calgary Opera, and Edmonton Opera. In Europe, he has directed productions in Switzerland for the Zurich Opera; in Monaco for Opera de Monte Carlo; in Italy for the Teatro Massimo Palermo, and Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. In South America he has directed in Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina.

Recent new productions by Mr. Uzan include Three Penny Opera for Arizona Opera, Macbeth for Seattle Opera and Dallas Opera, Faust for Montreal Opera, Seattle Opera, Portland Opera, and Florida Grand Opera, Massenet's Manon for Michigan Opera Theatre, Montreal Opera, Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, and Florida Grand Opera, La Fanciulla del West for Seattle Opera, Katya Kabanova for Montreal Opera and the Florida Grand Opera, Fedora, Jenufa, Carmina Burana, Don Carlo, and Mefistofele for Montreal Opera, Andrea Chenier for the Opera de Monte Carlo, Baltimore Opera, Seattle Opera, Montreal Opera, and Opera Company of Philadelphia, Madama Butterfly in Santiago and for the Baltimore Opera and Opera Colorado and Vancouver Opera, Manon Lescaut for Montreal Opera and Opera Pacific, Cherubin in Monte Carlo, Aida in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Suor Angelica and I Pagliacci for L'Opera de Montreal and the Florida Grand Opera, L'Elisir d'Amore for the Florida Grand Opera, and Samson et Dalila for Michigan Opera Theater. Most recently, he introduced a new production of Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera Carolina, Michigan Opera, and Montreal Opera, and a new production of Peter Grimes for Florida Grand Opera and Montreal Opera.

In the fall 2008, he directed Madama Butterfly with Atlanta Opera, Manon at Opera Carolina, and Rigoletto for Palm Beach Opera. In 2009 and beyond, engagements include Madama Butterfly at Florida Grand Opera, Tosca and Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Arizona Opera, Tosca and Boito’s Mefistofele at Michigan Opera Theatre, The Merry Widow at Washington Summer Opera, Romeo et Juliette at New Orleans Opera, Carmen at Opera Carolina, and Faust with Madison Opera, among other engagements to be announced.

Mr. Uzan served as General and Artistic Director of L'Opera de Montreal from 1988 to 2002. During his tenure, he brought financial success and artistic renown throughout the world for its productions. He expanded the number of productions from 4 to 7, the number of yearly performances from 22 to 40, and brought the company out of a 1.2 million dollar deficit leaving it in 2002 with a surplus of over 1 million on an approximate budget of 7 million dollars. In addition to the more traditional works of Puccini, Mozart, and Verdi, he extended the repertoire to include more obscure pieces by Menotti and Britten and even brought in new works such as Therese Raquin by Tobias Picker and Nelligan by Andre Gagnon. While at Montreal Opera he mounted over 30 new productions which are still in circulation throughout North America today and of which many were broadcast live on Canadian Television. Through his dedication to nurturing young artists, he expanded the then recently founded young artist development program, The Atelier lyrique de l'Opéra de Montréal. In the 1989–1990 season, the Atelier lyrique launched to introduce young audiences to the opera, in association with the Opéra de Montréal and, for a number of program years with the Montréal Opera Guild, also created by Mr. Uzan that year. He also briefly served as General and Artistic Director of the Tulsa Opera, as well as the director of the Young Artists program for the Florida Grand Opera.

In 2002, he founded the Uzan Division of Pinnacle Arts Management, which has quickly established itself in the operatic community for their formidable roster of both young and renowned artists, including singers, stage directors, designers, and conductors. The company started with 5 artists in 2002 and currently represents over 80 artists today with 3 full-time employees. The Division is completely independent both financially and artistically. Their progressive approach to management, expertise in the arts, and esteemed associations with companies provides the prestigious Uzan roster with career propelling guidance and opportunities around the world.

Mr. Uzan has added another title to his ever growing and impressive history with opera and the arts, that of librettist. Based upon the original play by Edmond Rostand, which premiered in 1897 in Paris, Mr. Uzan wrote all the prose and storyline in French, maintaining the heart and soul of the original text of Cyrano de Bergerac. He commissioned David DiChiera to compose the music of the piece, which premiere in the fall of 2007 in Detroit to acclaim, with subsequent performances Opera Company of Philadelphia, Baltimore Opera, and Florida Grand Opera.

A native of France, Mr. Uzan is a graduate of the University of Paris, with Ph.D.'s in Literature, Theatrical Studies and in Philosophy. He began his career in the theater as an actor and director in close collaboration with noted French director, Jean Louis Barrault. He appeared in leading theaters throughout Europe, earning recognition and receiving awards as the Best Young Actor, Best Young Director, and Best Director by the concours des jeunes companies. While in France, he was the French voice for many Foreign Films, especially American movies including The Graduate, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon.

He emigrated to the U.S.A in 1972 (American Citizen as of 1976) where he established French Theater in America, a company which toured for ten years giving 100 performances per year of classic French plays. He led a team of actors around the United States and functioned as executive producer, director, lead actor, set designer, and administrator, all without the help of government or local subsidiaries.

He pursued an academic career as Professor of Literature, Acting, and Directing at Wellesley College and Middlebury College in addition to his work as an actor and director. He was also the producer and the main French voice for many French academic books. On Television, he has starred in special series dramatizing the lives and careers of famous musicians as well as a special guest on the popular soap opera, Search for Tomorrow. He also directed the Interactive Language Learning CD-ROM Who is Oscar Lake? for ESL students, as well as those of French, Italian, and German. In 2008, his first novel The Shattered Sky was published in both French and English by Enigma Books.

In 1982, he directed his first operas with the Lake George Opera (Faust) and with the Opera Company of Philadelphia (La Rondine).  In 1984, he directed Carmen for the Tulsa Opera with Fiorenza Cossotto and Veriano Luchetti, returning the following year for Faust with Neil Shicoff, Samuel Ramey, and Diana Soviero, where upon he was appointed General Director. In 1986, he directed a new production of Romeo et Juliette for L'Opera de Montreal and returned the following year for La Cenerentola before being named General Director.