Since 2012, Diane Clément has been working on her own opera productions.

As a graduate of musicology, she was initially stage- and production manager and then assistant to numerous opera directors. She has worked with Patrice Chéreau, Trisha Brown and Laurent Pelly at the Paris Opera, with Jean-François Sivadier and Ludovic Lagarde at the Opéra de Lille, with Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, with Olivier Py at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, with Robert Wilson and David Cronenberg at the Théâtre du Châtelet and with Moshe Leiser and Denis Podalydès at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées.

She directed two revivals for Laurent Pelly: Massenet’s Don Quichotte at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo in 2010 and Chabriers Le roi malgré lui at the Opéra comique in 2009. More recently, she has directed a revival of Willy Decker’s La clemenza di Tito in collaboration with Jean-Louis Cabané at the Paris Opera.

In 2012, she developed a concept around Wagner’s Flying Dutchman with costume designer Barbara del Piano,which they presented at the Wagner200 opera-staging competition. Furthermore, they developed a concept for Opera Europa around a double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.

For her participation in the Ring Award 2014, she commissioned Barbara del Piano this time with both stage- and costume design for her concept ofDer Freischütz. With this project they reached the semi-finals of this prestigious competition.

Aftertheir first joint production of Bizet’s Carmen in the Salle Ravel in Levallois-Perret in 2014, it was only natural for them to continue their collaboration. The team grew on this occasion by welcoming Grégoire Delafond as lighting designer. In March 2016, they were reinvited to the same venue to stage Puccini’s La Bohème.

Together they are preparing a new production of Weber’s Freischütz for the 2021-2022 season.