Mariame Clément

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

She made her directing debut in 2004 in Lausanne with Rossini’s Il signor Bruschino in a double bill with Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi. Since then she has directed in cities including 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 and Ghent (Il Giasone, Agrippina, Rossini’s Armida) and Graz (Faust, Die Zauberflöte), at the Theater an der Wien (Castor et Pollux, The Fairy Queen), Glyndebourne (Don Pasquale, Poliuto, Il turco in Italia, Don Giovanni), the Paris Opéra (Hänsel und Gretel at the Garnier, Cendrillon at the Bastille), the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (L’Étoile), the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), the Semperoper Dresden (The Bartered Bride), the Teatro Real in Madrid (Francesco Corselli’s Achille in Sciro), the Bregenz Festival (Don Quichotte) and at the Santa Fe Opera (Carmen).

Mariame Clément directed the first French production of Richard Wagner’s Das Liebesverbot at the Opéra national du Rhin in 2016. She also directed Offenbach’s opéra-bouffe Barkouf in Strasbourg in 2018, the first time the opera had been staged since its world premiere in 1860.

She initiated a trilogy of Donizetti’s Tudor operas at the Grand Théâtre de Genève with Anna Bolena in 2021, following it with Maria Stuarda, and closing the trio in June 2024 with Roberto Devereux. During the 2023/24 season she has also directed Die schweigsame Frau in Karlsruhe and Die lustige Witwe at the Vienna Volksoper.

Following her Salzburg Festival debut with Les Contes d’Hoffmann, her projects will include Roméo et Juliette at the Berlin State Opera, Maria Stuarda at the Royal Danish Opera and Le nozze di Figaro at Glyndebourne.