The KT Wong foundation and Beijing Music Festival are proud to present Masterclass: In Conversation with Robert Carsen – Celebrating 30 Years in Opera. It will host by James Chau and hosted at CHAO Sanlitun on 13th October.
Robert Carsen was born in Canada and trained as an actor in Toronto and the UK. His work as a director has led to numerous, acclaimed productions worldwide.
Recent productions include: Singin’ in the Rain (Theatre du Chatelet); La Fanciulla del West, CO2, Don Giovanni, Les Contes d’Hoffmann (La Scala); Pique Dame (Zurich); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rigoletto (Festival d’Aix En Provence); Die Zauberfloete (Baden-Baden); Das Rheingold (Barcelona); L’Amour des Trois Oranges, Macbeth (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Falstaff (The Met Opera, La Scala, Royal Opera House), JJR (Citoyen de Genève), Richard III (Geneva); Makropoulos Case (Nurnberg, Strasbourg, La Fenice); Agrippina, Platee, The Turn of the Screw, (Theater an der Wien); My Fair Lady (Chatelet, Mariinsky Theatre), Rinaldo, L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Glyndebourne); Richard III (Antwerp, Dusseldorf, Strasbourg); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ENO, Barcelona, La Scala); Ariadne auf Naxos (Munich, Berlin, Copenhagen); Armide (Champs Elysees); Candide (Chatelet, co-production with La Scala/ENO, also Tokyo, Nice); Dialogues des Carmelites (Covent Garden, La Scala, Madrid, Netherlands, Vienna, Canadian Opera, Cologne. Antwerp, Theatre an der Wien, Chicago, Nice); Tannhäuser (Paris, Tokyo, Barcelona); Die Zauberflote, Capriccio, Les Boréades, Rusalka, Alcina, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Lohengrin, Nabucco, I Capuleti ed i Montecchi, Manon Lescaut (Opera de Paris); Fidelio, Carmen (Amsterdam); Der Ring des Nibelungen (also with La Fenice and Liceu), Otello, Falstaff and Macbeth (Cologne); Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburg); La Traviata (to reopen the new Teatro la Fenice), Elektra (Florence, Tokyo, Paris); Eugene Onegin (Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco); Katya Kabanova (La Scala, Madrid, La Scala); Mitridate (Brussels, Vienna); Orfeo ed Euridice (Chicago, Toronto); Mother Courage (Piccolo Teatro Milan), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (New York), The Beautiful Game (West End), etc.
In 2010, Wagner’s tetralogy “Der Ring des Nibelungen”, directed by Carsen, was staged in Shanghai and created a huge sensation. “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” will be his debut in Beijing.Marking the first appearance of the pivotal 20th-century opera in China. Incidentally, it will be the third opera by Britten to be staged at BMF, following “Peter Grimes” and “Noye’s Fludde”that were performed three years ago.