Director, set and light designer. Recent works include Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s play Jedermann and La clemenza di Tito at the Salzburg Festival, The Excursions of Mr. Broücek at Staatsoper in Berlin, Die Jüdin von Toledo (Glanert) in Dresden, Ariodante at the Paris Opéra and Werther at the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. Other recent productions include Sophocles’ plays Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus for the Greek Theater of Syracuse, Aida at the Royal Opera, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno at the Salzburg Festival, Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria in Florence, Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo for the Theater an der Wien, and Julius Caesar (Battistelli) for the Rome Opera. Other productions include Osud (Janáček) in Brno, Idomeneo in Madrid, Rome and Copenhagen, Oceane (Glanert) at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Die Tote Stadt at the Komische Oper in Berlin, Pagliacci and Cavalleria rusticana at the Dutch National Opera, Der Rosenkavalier and Falstaff at the Royal Opera House and the Metropolitan, Eugene Onegin for the Rome Opera, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rigoletto at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Wozzeck, Agrippina and The Turn of the Screw at the Theater an der Wien, Rinaldo and The Coronation of Poppea at the Glyndebourne Festival, Tannhäuser, Die Zauberflöte, Elektra, Capriccio, Les Boréades, Rusalka, Les contes d’Hoffmann, Alcina, Lohengrin, Nabucco and Manon Lescaut at the Opéra National de Paris, Der Ring des Nibelungen in Cologne, Shanghai, Barcelona and Madrid, Dialogues des Carmélites, Káťa Kabanová, Salome, Iphigénie en Tauride, Idomeneo in Madrid. For la Fenice he staged La traviata which inaugurated the rebuilt theater in 2004, Don Carlo, Richard III (Battistelli), Věc Makropulos, and The Ring. For Teatro alla Scala Robert Carsen has directed Cosi fan tutte, Dialogues des Carmelites, Káťa Kabanová, Alcina, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Candide, La fanciulla del West, CO2 (Battistelli), Don Giovanni, Falstaff, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Peter Grimes and L’Orontea (Cesti). For the musical theatre he has directed Singin’ in the Rain, My Fair Lady and Candide at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Beautiful Game and Sunset Boulevard in the UK, Cabaret for the reopening of the Paris Lido, and The Beggar’s Opera at the Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris and on tour.