Vita

Born in 1977, director, lighting designer, and translator Marie Lambert-Le Bihan grew up in Paris and the UK. She first studied literature before receiving professional training at La Scala in Milan. She collaborated with William Christie on Charpentier’s Médée at the Teatro Real in Madrid and staged the Eden project for Joyce DiDonato. Her interpretation of Bizet’s Carmen premiered at Lyric Opera of Chicago; she has also directed Puccini’s Le Villi in Toulouse and Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites in Liège. As co-director and assistant director, Marie Lambert-Le Bihan has also worked at the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra national de Paris, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, London’s Covent Garden, and the Aix-en-Provence and Glyndebourne festivals. As a translator, she has translated Offenbach’s Vent du Soir into Italian and Giannettini’s oratorio L’uomo in bivio into French.

July 2025