Vincent Huguet Mise en scène

Biography

Vincent Huguet studied history and art history before discovering directing under Patrice Chéreau and then Peter Sellars. In 2012, he directed his first production, Lakmé, at the Opéra de Montpellier, before working at the Opéra de Rouen and the Opéra Comique (Contes de la lune vague après la pluie), at the Opéra de Bordeaux with Marc Minkowski (Les Voyages de Don Quichotte, La Vie parisienne, Les Contes d'Hoffmann), and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2018 (Didon et Énée).

In Klagenfurt, he met Lorenzo Viotti, with whom he conducted Werther, opening a fruitful collaboration with the young conductor at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon (Ode maritime, Roméo et Juliette, La Voix humaine). In 2019, he will be invited by the Vienna State Opera to conduct La Femme sans ombre. He will reprise his Dido and Aeneas at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and begin the Mozart Da Ponte trilogy at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin with Daniel Barenboim. At the Théâtre de Bâle, he directs Don Carlos, followed by Rigoletto in 2023, for which he entrusts the set design for the first time to Pierre Yovanovitch, who now accompanies him in most of his creations, as well as at the Seoul Opera in 2025 for The Marriage of Figaro.

In Spain, he has taken his productions to the stages of Bilbao and Palma, and was resident director at the Victoria de Los Ángeles Foundation, for whom he staged Encor sur le pavé and a gala at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu to celebrate the centenary of Victoria de Los Ángeles. Another hundred years for the Villa Noailles in Hyères, which will celebrate its centenary in 2024 with a new opera composed by Raphaël Lucas. He now regularly collaborates with artists such as Rosemary Standley, Françoise Fabian, Alexandre Tharaud and Angélique Kidjo. Upcoming projects include La Cenerentola with Thomas Hengelbrock in Baden-Baden, Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel and The Ring in Rome with Daniel Harding.

At the Opéra national de Paris: Manon, 2020

Immerse in the Paris Opera universe

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