Marie-Eve Signeyrole

Marie-Eve Signeyrole is an author and director whose productions are described as “breathtaking” (Le Figaro), “experiential, on the border between opera, theatre and performance. ” (Olyrix) and “of an overwhelming force” (Classicnews). She is nominee of the 2024 International Opera Awards in the category Director.

Marie-Eve Signeyrole will start the season 2024/25 with a new production of Macbeth at Deutsche Oper Berlin, followed by her house debut at Opéra Comique with Cherubini’s Medée, a co-production with Opéra national de Montpellier. She will then make another house debut at the Opera de Lyon with a new production of Cosi fan tutte and finish the season at Staatsoper Berlin with the re-creation of Foccroulle‘s Cassandra (in co-production with La Monnaie).

Recent productions include Roméo et Juliette and Belzhazzar both at Theater an der Wien, the world premieres of Foccroulle’s Cassandra (La Monnaie) and Chemirani’s Négar (Deutsche Oper Berlin, texts by Marie-Ève Signeyrole and Sonia Hossein-Pour), Turandot (Semperoper Dresden), the re-creation of Négar (Opéra de Montpellier), L’infedeltà delusa (Bayerische Staatsoper München), Saint- Saëns’ Frédégonde (Theater Dortmund), Rigoletto (Opéra national de Montpellier), Norma, Samson et Dalila and Don Giovanni, all at Opéra national du Rhin.

Elsewhere she staged Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust (Staatstheater Hannover, nominated for the prestigious German Faust Prize 2019), Nabucco (Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Dijon), Ronja Räubertochter (Oper Zürich), Carmen (Latvian National Opera Riga), double projects of Il Tabarro/Palais Royal and La Notte di un nevrastenico/Gianni Schicchi (Opéra National de Montpellier), Owen Wingrave (Opéra national de Lorraine), Wolf Ferrari’s Cinderella (Opéra national du Rhin), as well as Eugene Onegin (Opéra de Limoges, Opéra de Montpellier). In July 2015, she directed Le Monstre du labyrinthe, a world premiere by Jonathan Dove, under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle, at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. The production was highly acclaimed and has since been revived at the Opéra de Lille, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the Opéra National de Montpellier.

In addition, Marie-Eve Signeyrole developed and realized her own musical projects, such as the participatory pieces Sex’y (Opéra national de Paris) and La Soupe Pop (Opéra national de Montpellier) as well as the symphonic project Baby Doll in collaboration with the Yom Quartett, performed at the Opéra de Lyon, the Opéra national de Montpellier, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, at the Gulbenkian Foundation and at the Philharmonie de Paris. She has written and staged the musical 14+18 at the Opéra National de Paris, during ‘Ten Months of School and Opera’, an educational project in partnership with the opera companies of Nancy, Montpellier and Limoges. She has also taken part in the Académie Européenne de Musique at the Festival d’Aix-en Provence as author and stage director.

Marie-Eve Signeyrole holds a bachelor’s degree in modern literature from the Sorbonne and a master’s degree in cinema from the Institut international de l’image et du son. From the beginning, her career as a director followed two distinct paths: cinema and the theatrical scene. Marie-Eve Signeyrole has worked as artistic director and director for Ellios Production. In 2009, she directed Alice au pays s’émerveille, her second medium-length film, with Emir Kusturica in the lead role.