Mariame Clément was born in Paris. After studying literature and art history at the École normale supérieure, she lived in the United States and then in Berlin, where she undertook her first internships at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
She made her debut as a stage director in 2004 with Il Signor Bruschino/Gianni Schicchi at the Lausanne Opera. She has since worked in Athens (Le Comte Ory), Tel Aviv (Il Viaggio a Reims), Santiago de Chile (Lulu), Oviedo (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Seville (Agrippina), Nuremberg (Le Nozze di Figaro), Essen (Le Grand Macabre, Salome), Strasbourg (La Belle Hélène, Werther, Platée, Der Rosenkavalier, La Calisto), Antwerp/Ghent (Giasone, Agrippina, Armida), Graz (Faust, Die Zauberflöte), the Theater an der Wien (Castor et Pollux, The Fairy Queen), the Glyndebourne Festival (Don Pasquale, Poliuto, Il Turco in Italia, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro), the Paris Opera (Hänsel und Gretel, Cendrillon), Covent Garden (L’Étoile), the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in patria), the Semperoper Dresden (The Bartered Bride), the Bregenz Festival (Don Quichotte), the Santa Fe Opera (Carmen), the Volksoper Vienna (Die Lustige Witwe), and the Berlin Staatsoper (Roméo et Juliette).
In 2014, she premiered Philippe Hurel’s first opera, Les Pigeons d’argile, at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse. In 2016, she staged at the Opéra national du Rhin the French premiere of Wagner’s second opera, Das Liebesverbot. In 2018, the same theater entrusted her with Barkouf, a major Offenbach work recently rediscovered and not performed since its 1860 premiere.
With Roberto Devereux in June 2024, she completed a Donizetti trilogy at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, begun with Anna Bolena in 2021 and continued with Maria Stuarda in 2022.
She made her debut at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2024 with Les Contes d’Hoffmann.
Her upcoming projects will take her, among others, to Copenhagen, Lausanne, Paris, Chicago, and Bregenz.

Mariame ClémentDirector