Marie Lambert-Le Bihan (b. 1977) is a freelance stage director and lighting designer. Recently, she directed the acclaimed world premiere of Bruno Mantovani’s Voyage d’automne at the Théâtre du Capitole, listed as one of the best shows of 2024 by Le Monde. In 2024, she co-directed and co-wrote Transfiguré, 12 vies de Schönberg with filmmaker Bertrand Bonello at the Paris Philharmonie. She semi-staged an acclaimed production of Charpentier’s Médée at the Teatro Real, Madrid. Recently she directed an acclaimed new production of Dialogues des Carmélites in Liège and Eden for Joyce DiDonato. Recent lighting design credit: Le Nozze di Figaro at the Paris Conservatoire. Other recent credits: associate direction on Pulcinella/L’Heureespagnole at the Opéra Comique, new production of Carmen at Lyric Opera Chicago, new production and lighting for Le Villi (Halle aux grains, Toulouse), La Fille du Régiment (Liège), lighting design for La Casa di Bernarda Alba (Tenerife). She made a striking debut in London in 2017 with an acclaimed production of Leoncavallo’s Zazà (Opera Holland Park) and La Voix humaine (Buxton International Festival).

She was the associate director for Madama Butterfly (La Monnaie) and La Cenerentola (Opéra de Paris). Other collaborations include The Rain, a VR film by artist HeeWon Lee, Entropya scientific lecture with music by Dopplereffekt, and projects with writer Anne-James Chaton. Marie revived La Traviata (Liceu, Madrid, Scottish Opera), La Clemenza di Tito (Toulouse, Marseille, Chicago, Liceu), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Chicago, San Francisco), Carmen (Glyndebourne, Gothenburg) and Andrea Chénier (Liceu, Covent Garden). She worked at La Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, Châtelet, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Strasbourg, Lille, Tokyo, Maggio Musicale, Ravenna Festival, Bologna, Parma, Turin, Genoa, Montpellier, Bari, Palermo and Welsh National Opera. Credits as translator: Offenbach’s early operetta Vent du Soir into Italian (MaggioMusicale), L’uomo in bivio and various frottole into French for Paulin Büdgen/Ensemble Céladon. She works as a translator for various publishers specialized in exhibition catalogues and poetry collections. As a performer and director, she worked on plays by Marivaux, Schnitzler, Goldoni, Calaferte and Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Teatro Litta, Milan). Marie grew up in Paris and in England. She read literature in Paris and Bologna and trained at La Scala. She was a visiting lecturer at the University of Cincinnati-CCM and acting coach at Mascarade Studio Florence. Upcoming projects: Pikovaya Damain Liège, a world premiere for the Lucerne Festival, new productions in Belgium, Spain and France.