Robert Carsen Director
Season 25/26 Artist

Biography

Canadian-born Robert Carsen trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School before moving into directing, lighting and set design. He recently directed Peter Grimes and L'Orontea in Milan, Werther in Baden-Baden, La Clémence de Titus and Jedermann in Salzburg, Les Voyages de Monsieur Brouček in Brno and Berlin and Les Fêtes d'Hébé at the Opéra Comique. Other recent productions include Cabaret at Lido de Paris, Aida at London's Royal Opera House, Œdipe Roi and Œdipe à Colone (Sophocles) in Siracusa, Arabella in Zurich, Idomeneo in Madrid and Rome and Oceane in Berlin.

For the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, he staged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Orlando, The Magic Flute, 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. 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; Tetralogie in Cologne, Venice, Barcelona and Madrid; Carmen in Amsterdam. He has been artistic director and set designer for several exhibitions in Paris, London and Chicago.

Officier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Robert Carsen received the 2021 International Opera Award, the Abbiati critics' prize, the Prix XXI in Spain and the Italian Opera Star prize. In the 2025-2026 season, he will direct Così fan tutte at La Scala in Milan and Antigone (Sophocles) in Siracusa.

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

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