Biography

Mariame Clément

Current as of December 2023

Source: Ifat Nesher Creative Artists Management

After studying literature and art history at the École Normale Supérieure in her home city of Paris, Mariame Clément first moved to the USA and then to Berlin.

Her first production, Il Signor Bruschino/Gianni Schicchi, took her to Lausanne in 2004. Since her debut, she has appeared in Athens (Le Comte Ory), Tel Aviv (Il Viaggio a Reims), Santiago de Chile (Lulu), Nuremberg (Le Nozze di Figaro), Essen (Le Grand Macabre, Salome), Strasbourg (La Belle Hélène, Werther, Platée, Der Rosenkavalier, La Calisto), Antwerp/Ghent (Giasone, Agrippina, Armida), Graz (Faust, Die Zauberflöte), at 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), in Covent Garden (L’Étoile), at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), at the Semperoper Dresden (The Bartered Bride), at the Teatro Real Madrid (Achille in Sciro), at the Bregenz Festival (Don Quichotte) and at the Santa Fe Opera (Carmen).
In 2016, her production of Wagner’s Liebesverbot at the Opéra national du Rhin was the French premiere of this work. In 2018, she staged Offenbach’s rediscovered Barkouf, also in Strasbourg, which had not been performed since its premiere in 1860.

In 2021, her Anna Bolena at the Grand Théâtre de Genève was the first part of a Donizetti trilogy that continued with Maria Stuarda and will end with Roberto Devereux in June 2024. Her next projects will take her to Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen and Glyndebourne, among others.

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