Mariame Clément
After her studies of literature and art history at the École Normale Supérieure in her hometown Paris, Mariame Clément spent two years in the U.S.A. and six years in Berlin,
where she began a PhD on medieval Persian miniature painting.
After an internship at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, she started working as an assistant director for various opera houses in Europe. In 2003, she won the third prize at the European
Competition for opera directors in Wiesbaden. She made her directing debut in 2004 with Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino and
Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi in Lausanne. Her second production, Rossini’s Il Viaggio a Reims in Bern, was revived in Oviedo, Tel-Aviv and Antwerp.
Since then, she has worked in Nantes (Rebel and Francœur’s Pirame et Thisbé), Athens (Le Comte Ory), Bern (La Traviata, Il Barbiere di Siviglia,
La Bohème), Strasbourg (La Belle Hélène, Werther, Platée,
Der Rosenkavalier, Die Zauberflöte), Antwerp/Ghent (Giasone, Agrippina), at the Theater an der Wien (Castor et Pollux), in Graz (Faust), in Dortmund
(Le Nozze di Figaro), in Glyndebourne (Don Pasquale), and at the Opéra national de Paris (Hänsel und Gretel).
In 2014, she staged a world premiere by Philippe Hurel, Les Pigeons d'argile,
at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. Further projects will take her to Essen, Glyndebourne, London (Royal Opera House), Paris (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées). (May 2014)
Plans for 2014/15:
November 20th, 2014: Engelbert Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel (revival), Opéra national de Paris (Garnier).
December 6th, 2014: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (revival), Cologne.
December 14th, 2014: Gioacchino Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (revival), Ópera de Oviedo.
February 14th, 2015: György Ligeti, Le Grand Macabre, Aalto-Musiktheater Essen.
March 24th, 2015: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Castor et Pollux (revival), Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse.
May 21st, 2015: Gaetano Donizetti, Poliuto, Glyndebourne.
June 27th, 2015: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro (revival), Staatstheater Nürnberg.