Robert Carsen (Stage Director)
His first major success was Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Aix-en-Provence in 1991, later brought to other theatres. One of those was Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, which had the production released on DVD. The director returned to Aix-en-Provence again with Die Zauberflцte, Handel’s Orlando and Semele. He worked for Opйra de Lyon (Salome), Opйra de Bordeaux (Le Nozze di Figaro, which had been later transferred to the Thйвtre des Champs Elysйes, Paris, Tel-Aviv, Barcelona and Genoa), Paris Opera where he had staged 10 productions: Manon Lescaut, Nabucco, I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, Lohengrin, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Alcina, Dvoшбk’s Rusalka, Rameau’s Les Borйades, Capriccio, Tannhдuser.
Robert Carsen was a frequent guest at the Flemish Opera, Belgium, where he had staged seven Puccini’s operas, Janбиek’s Jenщfa, Katya Kabanova and The Cunning Little Vixen; he also directed the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Richard III. Among other opera houses he worked at are Opйra national du Rhin, Strasbourg (Janбиek’s The Makropoulos Affair), De Nederlandse Opera (Poulenc’s Dialogues des carmйlites, Fidelio, Carmen), Oper Kцln (Der Ring des Nibelungen, Macbeth, Otello, Falstaff), Vienna State Opera (Verdi’s Jйrusalem, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Manon Lescaut), Metropolitan Opera (Boito’s Mefistofele, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin), Lyric Opera of Chicago (Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Iphigйnie en Tauride), Teatro alla Scala (Dialogues des carmйlites, Katya Kabanova, Bernstein’s Candide, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Alcina), Bavarian State Opera in Munich (Ariadne auf Naxos, Lucia di Lammermoor), etc. He also worked at the numerous opera festivals, including Salzburg Festival (Der Rosenkavalier), Bregenz Festival (Il Trovatore), Glyndebourne Festival (L’incoronazione di Poppea, Rinaldo), Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Fidelio). He has directed the productions of R. Strauss’ Elektra in Tokyo, musical director Seiji Ozawa (the production was revived at Florence in 2008 and in Paris in 2013), and La Traviata at the re-opening of Teatro La Fenice, Venice, in 2004.
His works for drama theatre include Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children for Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan for Bristol Old Vic Theatre and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in New York. For Thйвtre du Chвtelet, Paris, Carsen has directed Ute Lemper’s show Nomade, Bernstein’s Candide and F. Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady. For Andrew Lloyd Webber, the director has staged Beautiful Game (Cambridge Theatre, London) and Sunset Boulevard (tour around Great Britain).
Robert Carsen has also showed interest in designing art exhibitions, among them Marie-Antoinette at the Grand Palais and Charles Garnier at L’Йcole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. At the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, he has produced Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, where for the first time he was also the set and costume designer.
Robert Carsen is the Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters, as well as of the Order of Canada, and the winner of numerous theatre awards.
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