1862

Born in Geneva. Son of Louis Appia, one of the founders of the Red Cross.

1873-1879

Secondary studies at the College in Vevey.

1880-1888

Musical studies in Geneva, Zurich, Leipzig, Paris, Dresden.

1882

Attend the creation of Parsifal in Beyreuth

1886

Saw Tristan Isolde in Beyreuth. He discovers the answer to his aspirations in the work of Wagner: the music and the theater unite in a single indivisible reality.

1888

He announces "his determination to reform stage design".

1889-1890

Held workshops in the theaters of Dresden and Vienna.

1895

Published the stage designs of the wagnerien drama.

1896

Sketches for Tristan and Parsifal after The Ordu Rhine and The Walkyrie, the scenique design fires up Gustav Mahler.

1899

Publish Die Musik and Inszenierung die.

1903

Paris. Production of Manfred of Byron-Schumann in the peculiar hotel of the Countess of Béarn.

1906

Appia discovers the Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze and meets its creator. Beginning of a collaboration.

1909

At the invitation of Jaques-Dalcroze, he designs a set of rhythmic spaces (Espace Rhythmique).

1911

Construction of the Jaques-Dalcroze Institute in the city Garden of Hellerau in Germany, according to the ideas of Appia.

1914

Collaboration with Jaques-Dalcroze for "The Festival of June" in Geneva.

1915

Wrote the article Actor, Space, Light, Painting. Visit of Jacques Copeau.

1921

Published L'Oeuvre de art vivant.

1923

Create the sceneries of Tristan and Isolde for Toscanini at the Scala of Milan.

1926-1927

Sketches for Orphée and Eurydice, King Lear, Macbeth, Lohengrin, Fause I.

1928

Died in Nyon, Switzerland.