Mariame Clément
Biography (pdf, September 2024)
After her studies of literature and art history at the École Normale Supérieure in her hometown Paris, Mariame Clément lived in the U.S.A. and in Berlin, where she did her first internships at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
She made her directing debut in 2004 with Rossini's Il Signor Bruschino and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi in Lausanne. She has worked in Athens (Le Comte Ory), Tel Aviv (Il Viaggio a Reims), Santiago de Chile (Lulu), Oviedo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Sevilla (Agrippina), Nuremberg (Le Nozze di Figaro), Essen (Le Grand Macabre, Salome), Strasbourg (La Belle Hélène, Werther, Platée, Der Rosenkavalier, La Calisto), Antwerp/Ghent (Giasone, Agrippina, Armida), Graz (Faust, Die Zauberflöte), at the Theater an der Wien (Castor et Pollux, The Fairy Queen), in Glyndebourne (Don Pasquale, Poliuto, Il Turco in Italia, Don Giovanni), at the Opéra national de Paris (Hänsel und Gretel, Cendrillon), at the Royal Opera House (L'Étoile), at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria), at the Semperoper Dresden (Die verkaufte Braut), at the Bregenz Festival (Don Quichotte), at the Santa Fe Opera (Carmen), and at the Volksoper in Vienna (Die Lustige Witwe).
In 2014 she created Philippe Hurel's opera, Les Pigeons d'argile, at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. In 2016, she staged the French premiere of Wagner's second opera, Das Liebesverbot, at the Opéra national du Rhin. Her production of Barkouf in the same theatre in 2018 was the first performance since 1860 of this newly rediscovered major piece by Offenbach.
With Roberto Devereux in June 2024, she completed a Donizetti trilogy at the Grand Théâtre de Genève which began with Anna Bolena in 2021 and continued with Maria Stuarda in 2022.
She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2024 with Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
Further projects will take her, among other places, to Berlin, Copenhagen and Glyndebourne.
Mariame Clément
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
2024-2025 Il Turco in Italia (revival) in Glyndebourne (Autumn Festival), Roméo et Juliette at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin), Maria Stuarda (revival) in Copenhagen, Le Nozze di Figaro at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, Le Nozze di Figaro in Glyndebourne.
2023-2024 Cendrillon at the Opéra national de Paris (revival), Die Schweigsame Frau in Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Die Lustige Witwe in Volksoper Wien, Roberto Devereux and the entire Tudor Trilogy at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the Salzburg Festival.
2022-2023 Maria Stuarda at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Nancy (revival), Achille in Sciro at the Teatro Real de Madrid, Don Giovanni in Glyndebourne.
2021-2022 Anna Bolena at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Lucrezia / Faust et Hélène in Darmstadt (revival), Don Quichotte in Darmstadt (revival), Cendrillon at the Opéra national de Paris, Carmen in Santa Fe, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Workshop on dramatic and musical interpretation ➔) at the Abbaye de Royaumont.
2020-2021 Lucrezia / Faust et Hélène in Darmstadt, Il Turco in Italia in Glyndebourne, Così fan tutte (workshop with David Stern and Opera Fuoco), Agrippina (Workshop on dramatic and musical interpretation ➔) at the Abbaye de Royaumont. Cancelled productions: Don Quichotte in Darmstadt (revival, production postponed to 2022), Die schweigsame Frau in Karlsruhe (postponed to 2023).
2019-2020 Barkouf (revival) in Cologne, Agrippina (revival) at the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, Achille in Sciro at the Teatro Real in Madrid (performances cancelled), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (revival, production cancelled) in Nancy, Leonora (Paër) at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der alten Musik (production reduced to a semi-concert version). Oper! Awards 2019, Best Rediscovery for Barkouf; Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis 2020, Best Production for Don Quichotte. Participation in phone-in performance (➔) This Evening's Performance has not been cancelled, Bergen National Opera / Zoë Irvine; film (Watch the video) on Il Barbiere di Siviglia for Opéra national de Lorraine, co-written with Robert Hatisi.
2018-2019 Barkouf (Offenbach) at the Opéra national du Rhin, The Bartered Bride at the Semperoper Dresden, Don Quichotte at the Bregenz Festival, contribution (Watch the video) at the forum Bpifrance Inno Génération, co-director of the film L'Odyssée d'Offenbach by François Roussillon.
2017-2018 Salome in Essen, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (revival) in Nuremberg, Lulu in Santiago de Chile.
2016-2017 The Fairy Queen at the Theater an der Wien, Rossini's Armida (revival) in Montpellier, Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris), Agrippina (revival) in Antwerp, Calisto at the Opéra national du Rhin, Don Pasquale (revival) in Glyndebourne.
2015-2016 Don Pasquale (revival) for Glyndebourne on Tour, Armida (Rossini) in Ghent, L'Étoile in London (ROH), Das Liebesverbot at the Opéra national du Rhin.
2014-2015 Armida (Haydn) for Arcal (Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and tour in France), Hänsel und Gretel (revival) at the Opéra national de Paris, Die Zauberflöte (revival) in Cologne, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (revival) in Oviedo, Le Grand Macabre in Essen, Castor et Pollux (revival) in Toulouse, Poliuto in Glyndebourne, Le Nozze di Figaro (revival) in Nuremberg.
2013-2014 Die Zauberflöte (revival) in Graz, Les Pigeons d'argile in Toulouse, Platée (revival) at the Opéra national du Rhin, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Workshop on dramatic and musical interpretation ➔) at the Abbaye de Royaumont.
2012-2013 Agrippina in Ghent and Oviedo, Die Zauberflöte at the Opéra national du Rhin, Le Nozze di Figaro in Dortmund, Hänsel und Gretel at the Opéra national de Paris, Platée (revival) in Nuremberg, Don Pasquale (revival) in Glyndebourne.
2011-2012 Don Pasquale for Glyndebourne on Tour, Il Viaggio a Reims (revival) in Antwerp/Ghent, Die Leidenschaften (The Passions), an exhibition (➔) at the Deutsches Hygienemuseum in Dresden, Der Rosenkavalier at the Opéra national du Rhin.
2010-2011 La Belle Hélène (revival) at the Opéra national du Rhin, Castor et Pollux at the Theater an der Wien, Faust in Graz, La Bohème (revival) in Limoges.
2009-2010 La Bohème at the Stadttheater Bern, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (revival) in Tel Aviv, Platée at the Opéra national du Rhin, Il Giasone in Antwerp/Ghent.
2008-2009 La Belle Hélène (revival) in Nantes, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (revival) in Oviedo, Die Entführung aus dem Serail in Braunschweig, Rigoletto at the Opéra national de Lorraine, Werther at the Opéra national du Rhin.
2007-2008 Il Viaggio a Reims (revival) in Tel Aviv, Le Comte Ory at the Athens National Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Bern.
2006-2007 Il Viaggio a Reims in Oviedo, La Belle Hélène at the Opéra National du Rhin, La Traviata in Bern and Pirame et Thisbé (an opera by Rebel and Francoeur, performed for the first time since 1771) in Nantes and Angers.
2006 Return to Paris.
2005-2006 Il Viaggio a Reims in Bern, Guillaume Tell (Grétry) in Biel-Solothurn, and Albert Herring in Lübeck.
2004 Début production as director: Il Signor Bruschino / Gianni Schicchi at the Lausanne Opera, with sets and costumes by Julia Hansen.
2003 Third Prize at the European Opera-Directing Competition organized by Opera Europa and Camerata Nuova in Wiesbaden.
2003-2005 Assistant director, in particular at the Opéra National de Montpellier (Le Nozze di Figaro, Franziska Severin; Un Ballo in maschera, Alexander Schulin), in Ghent/Antwerp (Rinaldo revival) and at the Opéra National du Rhin (L'Italiana in Algeri, Christof Loy).
2002-2005 Seminal professional experiences at the opera: internships (Rinaldo, Opéra National de Montpellier, Nigel Lowery and Amir Hosseinpour; Götterdämmerung, Dresden Semperoper, Willy Decker), extra (Staatsoper Berlin), interpreter for Ursel and Karl-Ernst Herrmann (Médée, Deutsche Oper Berlin), French coach for chorus and soloists (Staatsoper and Deutsche Oper), assistant stage manager (Opéra National de Paris).
2001 First internships at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin: Der fliegende Holländer with Harry Kupfer and La Bohème with Lindy Hume.
1999 Relocation to Berlin; commencement of doctorate in art history focusing on medieval Persian miniature painting.
1997-1999 Teaching assistance in French at Harvard University.
1994-1997 Degree in literature and art history at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris).
Born in Paris.
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