Opéra de Lausanne

At the Opéra de Lausanne: Il barbiere di Siviglia by Paisiello (March 2007), La Périchole (December 2009).

Born in Lyon, Mathias Roche made his debut in 1989 at the side of the multi-disciplinary artist and director Jean-michel Bruyère, in the multimedia production Restez chez vous !. His activities involved music, theatre and video.

In 1993, he took part in the opera Carmen Jazz with Dee Dee Bridgewater, directed by André Serré. He has also worked with Silviu Purcarete and Jean Lacornerie. More recently, with Richard Brunel, with whom he has been working since 1995, he created the lighting for the operas Der Jasager, Der Neinsager by Brecht and Weill for the Opéra de Lyon and Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler at the Théatre de la Colline. At the beginning of 2009, he worked on Britten’s Albert Herring at the Opéra de Rouen and the Opéra Comique.

Since 2004, he has worked with Omar Porras on : L'elisir d’amore by Donizetti at the Opéra National de Nancy, Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, Pedro and the Commander by Lope de Vega at the Comédie Française, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Grand Théatre de Geneva. Recently, he has taken part in the production of Offenbach’s La Périchole at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse and the Opéra de Lausanne. He just took part in the international tour of the production Bolivar : fragments of a Dream by William Ospina, created in Bogota in July 2010.