Robert Carsen

This article is about the Canadian opera director. For the American author, see Robert Carson .

Robert Carsen (born June 23, 1954 in Toronto ) is a Canadian (opera) director .

life and work

Carsen Lotfi Mansouris was assistant director on the production of Tristan and Isolde (1979) at the Canadian Opera Company . He then studied acting at York University in Toronto and at the Bristol Old Vic Theater School, England.

After his celebrated debut at the Glyndebourne Festival , he is in demand at the great theaters of Europe and worldwide: the Paris Opera , Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , Het Muziektheater in Amsterdam, the New York Metropolitan Opera , the Festival d'Aix -en-Provence , the English National Opera , the Vienna State Opera , etc. To ensure the quality of his productions, he has resolved not to direct more than three to five operas per year.

Important productions: u. a. Lucia di Lammermoor at the Bavarian State Opera Munich (with Edita Gruberová , 1991), Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence), (revivals also at the Opéra de Lyon , the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona, ​​the Milanese Scala etc.), La traviata for the reopening of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (2004), the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli / Ian Burton's opera adaptation by Richard III. in Antwerp (2005), Manon Lescaut at the Vienna State Opera (2005) and Il trovatore at the Bregenz Festival . The Ring of the Nibelung at the Cologne Opera , which was performed again in Cologne in 2010 and performed twice in succession by the German Pavilion in Shanghai at the 2010 Expo in September, was also successful .

By Richard Strauss and staged Carsen. a. at the Paris Opéra Garnier Capriccio (with Renée Fleming as Countess), at the Salzburg Festival Der Rosenkavalier and in Tokyo Elektra .

In 2012 Carsen staged the special exhibition L'impressionnisme et la mode. Le défilé des peintres in the Paris Musée d'Orsay (September 25, 2012 to January 20, 2013) and Bohèmes (September 26, 2012 to January 14, 2013) in the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais

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In 2014 he celebrated lasting success with the public and the press with his staging of Jean-Philippe Rameau's ballet comedy Platée at the Theater an der Wien , which was co-produced with the Opéra-Comique in Paris. Carsen relocated the plot to the world of haute couture and prêt-à-porter of today, satirizing the god Jupiter as Karl Lagerfeld and skillfully played with the icons of pop music and fashion . Supported by his regular team (the outfitter Gideon Davey , the lighting designer Peter van Praet and the dramaturge Ian Burton ), as well as the choreographer Nicolas Paul , the director unfolded a firework of satires and satires. He did not hesitate to give the opera's finale a new tragic twist. The humiliated Platée snatches the arrow from Amor and kills himself - true to the motto: Better dead than despised.

Web links

• Robert Carsen in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

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3. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung : Theater an der Wien has a veritable triumph with “Platee”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , February 18, 2014  
4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk : Baroque Water Nymph in a Modern Chiceria ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), February 18, 2014