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Robert Carsen Director
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Biography
Canadian-born Robert Carsen trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before moving into directing, lighting and set design. Recent productions include Cabaret at Lido2Paris, Aida at London's Royal Opera House, Œdipus Rex in Siracusa, Arabella in Zurich, Idomeneo in Madrid and Rome and Oceane in Berlin. For the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, he directed Le Songe d'une nuit d'été, Orlando, La Flûte enchantée, Sémélé and Rigoletto; at the Opéra Comique, Platée and Les Fêtes vénitiennes; at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Armide, Iphigénie en Tauride and Orphée et Eurydice; at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Candide, My Fair Lady and Singin' in the Rain.
His other productions include Falstaff and Le Chevalier à la rose at London's Royal Opera House and New York's Metropolitan Opera; Rinaldo and Le Couronnement de Poppée at Glyndebourne; La Traviata at La Fenice in Venice; Don Giovanni at La Scala in Milan; Ariadne auf Naxos in Munich; the Tetralogy in Cologne, Venice, Barcelona and Madrid; and Carmen in Amsterdam. He has been artistic director and set designer for several exhibitions in Paris, London and Chicago.
An Officier des Arts et des Lettres, in 2021 Robert Carsen received the International Opera Award, the Abbiati critics' prize, the Prix XXI in Spain and the Italian Opera Star prize. Last season, he directed Peter Grimes at La Scala in Milan, Werther at the Baden-Baden Festival, La Clémence de Titus and Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. This season, he is directing L'Orontea at La Scala in Milan, Les Voyages de Monsieur Broucek in Brno and at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and Les Fêtes d'Hébé at the Opéra Comique.
At the Opéra national de Paris: Manon Lescaut, 1991; Les Capulet et les Montaigu, 1995; Nabucco, 1995; Lohengrin, 1996; Alcina, 1999; Les Contes d'Hoffmann, 2000; Rusalka, 2002; Les Boréades, 2003; Capriccio, 2004; Tannhäuser, 2007; Elektra, 2013; The Magic Flute, 2014; gala Renée Fleming, 2022; Ariodante, 2023; gala Maria Callas, 2023
