Marie Lambert-Le Bihan is a freelance opera director and lighting designer. Recently she directed Eden for Joyce DiDonato.
Other credits: direction and lighting for Le Villi (Halle aux grains-Toulouse), La Fille du Régiment (Opéra Royal de Wallonie starring Jodie Devos and Lawrence Brownlee), lighting for La Casa di Bernarda Alba (Tenerife). Currently on tour : Mon Amant de Saint-Jean written with Stéphanie d’Oustrac and Molière et ses musiques with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants.
She staged acclaimed productions of Leoncavallo’s Zazà (Opera Holland Park) and La Voix humaine (Buxton Festival).
She was the associate director for Madama Butterfly (La Monnaie) and La Cenerentola (Opéra de Paris).
Other collaborations include The Rain VR-film by artist HeeWon Lee, Entropy a scientific lecture with music by Dopplereffekt, and projects with writer Anne-James Chaton.
Marie collaborated extensively with directors Piero Faggioni and David McVicar. She revived La Traviata (Liceu, Madrid, Scottish Opera), La Clemenza di Tito (Toulouse, Marseille, Chicago, Liceu), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Chicago, San Francisco), Carmen (Glyndebourne, Gothenburg) and Andrea Chénier (Liceu, Covent Garden). She also assisted Liliana Cavani, Alfredo Arias, Elijah Moshinsky, Micha Van Hoecke, Lee Blakeley and Chiara Muti. She worked at la Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Strasburg, Lille, Tokyo, Maggio Musicale, Ravenna Festival, Bologna, Parma, Turin, Genoa, Montpellier, Bari, Palermo and Welsh National Opera.
Credits as translator and dramaturg: Offenbach’s early operetta Vent du Soir into italian (Maggio Musicale), L’uomo in bivio into french for Paulin Büdgen/Ensemble Céladon (upcoming).
Marie grew up in Paris and in England. She read literature in Paris and Bologna and trained at la Scala. She sits on the board of Fonds UNiSSON and is a visiting teacher at CCM-Cincinnati and Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence.
Upcoming projects: Carmen (Lyric Opera Chicago), Dialogues des Carmélites (Opéra Royal de Wallonie, Liège), new productions in Tours and Opéra Comique.
Touring: Eden (world tour), Molière et ses musiques, Mon Amant de Saint-Jean.
She was a visiting French repertoire teacher at University of Cincinnati-CCM and visiting acting coach at Mascarade Opera Studio in Florence.