Robert Carsen

From Canada, Robert Carsen directs, designs and lights plays, musicals and operas worldwide. Recent productions include Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex for the Greek Theatre at Siracuse, Italy, Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno for the Salzburg Festival, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria in Florence, Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo for Theater an der Wien, Janáček’s Osud in Brno, Idomeneo in Madrid, Rome and Copenhagen and the world premieres of Battistelli’s Julius Caesar in Rome and Glanert’s Oceane for Deutsche Oper Berlin. Past highlights include Pagliacci/Cavalleria rusticana in Amsterdam, Giulio Cesare in Egitto for La Scala, Shakespeare’s The Tempest for the Comédie Française, Arabella in Zurich, Der Rosenkavalier and Falstaff at The Royal Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, and Der Ring des Nibelungen in Cologne, Venice, Shanghai, Barcelona and Madrid. Paris highlights include Candide, My Fair Lady and Singin’ in the Rain for Théâtre du Châtelet, Shakespeare’s The Tempest for the Comédie Française, and twelve productions for Paris Opera, including, most recently, Ariodante.