Mariame Clément
Director
© Elisa Haberer
This new production of Così fan tutte is Mariame Clément's first production for Oper Frankfurt. During the 2024/25 season this French director's productions included Roméo et Juliette at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) and Le nozze di Figaro in Glyndebourne. Her career began in 2003, when she won the European Prize for Opera Direction. Her first production was a Il Signor Bruschino / Gianni Schicchi double bill in Lausanne in 2004. Since then she has staged more than 50 works, in places including Athens (Le Comte Ory), Tel Aviv (Il viaggio a Reims), Santiago de Chile (Lulu), Oviedo (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Strasbourg (La Belle Hélène, Werther, Platée, Der Rosenkavalier, La Calisto), Antwerp / Ghent (Giasone, Agrippina, Armida), Graz (Faust, Die Zauberflöte), the Theater an der Wien (Castor et Pollux, The Fairy Queen), in Glyndebourne (Don Pasquale, Poliuto, Il turco in Italia, Don Giovanni), at the Opéra National de Paris (Hänsel und Gretel, Cendrillon), Covent Garden (L'Étoile), the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria), Semperoper in Dresden (The Bartered Bride), the Bregenz Festival (Don Quichotte), Teatro Real in Madrid (Achille in Sciro) and Volksoper in Vienna (The Merry Widow). She also directed the world premiere of Philippe Hurel's Les Pigeons d'argile at the Théâtre de Toulouse in 2014. Her 2016 production of Wagner's Liebesverbot / Ban on Love at the Opéra national du Rhin was the first time this work had ever been performance in France. In 2018 she directed, also in Strasbourg, Offenbach's Barkouf, which hadn't been performed since its world premiere in 1860. She rounded off a Donizetti trilogy at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in June 2024 with Roberto Devereux, which was preceded by Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda. She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2024, with Les contes d'Hoffmann. After studying literature and the history of art at the École Normale Supérieure in her home town of Paris, she worked teaching French at Harvard University from 1997 - 1999. Future plans take her to places including Copenhagen, Lausanne and Paris.