Extraordinary Royal Palace/ Il Tabarro at Montpellier opera house
“Marie-Eve Signeyrole’s staging gives a radical reinterpretation of a masterpiece mostly unknown to the general audience.[...] You only need to let yourself be carried away, and admire the way Marie-Eve Signeyrole dresses up instrumental interludes. For there are indeed an impressive amount of innovations here. We could even see in the booklet’s mountain lake here turned into an unrelenting ocean a process of enlargement at play in the whole show : Marie-Eve Signeyrole thinks big and stretches the limits of a somewhat minor work. With a constant vitality, the set pictures an almost Becket-like portrait in which all the characters vainly struggle with themselves in an atmosphere at once tragic and comical. We can only be charmed by the wide imagination of what we witness on stage… With the final tragic denouement Marie-Eve Signeyrole delivers a masterstroke : the set becomes covered with blood, giving an almost cinematographic intensity to the murder. A great paradox, since this gore ending (we can still hear the steps of the boots, splashing about a scarlet pond…) has been made with no video support.”
Opera Online,
Royal Palace/Il Tabarro, Opéra National de Montpellier,
June 2016
From dream to reality - An incandescent weaving between Weill and Puccini
“The last production of Montpellier’s season, a coupling of two widely unalike tiny operas works wonders thanks to the director’s imagination, Marie-Eve Signeyrole, who manages to wrap up this whole work with consistency… successfully resorting to cinema, video and danse… A genuine alchemy where intelligence rivals with imagination.”
Classica,
Royal Palace/Il Tabarro, Opéra National de Montpellier,
June 2016
“Onegin through a magnifying glass : Marie-Eve Signeyrole’s visions of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin peers at the characters through the walls of a community apartment. She brings a sharp eye that will need to be taken into account from now on. The director sticks to a line which, despite what could seam like a disloyalty to those advocating a certain tradition, never gets out of the way paved by Tchaikovsky, himself a faithful interpreter of Pushkin’s novel. A new leading figure to be followed within the so uneven landscape of lyric directors.”
Altamusica,
Eugene Onegin, Opéra National de Montpellier / Opéra de Limoges, January 2014,
April 2016
“Relevant imagination: Marie-Eve Signeyrole delivers a striking and modern staging of the Russian opera “Eugene Onegin” by Tchaikovsky. [...] Tchaikovsky in a community apartment: the young director’s precise work in directing the actors stands out. We are seduced by the performance’s visual as well as theatrical consistency. A name to be followed closely in the staging world.”
Le Parisier - Le Parisien,
Eugene Onegin, Opéra National de Montpellier / Opéra de Limoges, January 2014,
April 2016
“A first and a masterstroke ! Her transposition is dealt with brilliantly, an uncommon fact for such a young artist. So many things are outlined at the same time… And above all, bravo for the actor’s direction!”
ODB,
Eugene Onegin, Opéra National de Montpellier / Opéra de Limoges, January 2014,
April 2016
“The success of this work proposal lies above all in the message’s consistency that manages to make its way into the score. It also lies in the greatly precise and impressively creative work found in the actor’s direction.”
Olyrix,
Eugene Onegin, Opéra National de Montpellier / Opéra de Limoges, January 2014,
April 2016
“The city of Nancy enlightens “Owen Wingrave” by Britten. Owen Wingrave is a visual enchantment in Marie-Eve SIgneyrole’s staging on the stage of the National Opera of Lorraine. It is also a strongly intense dramatic moment (…). The city of Nancy treats itself with a thrilling season opening.”
L’Est Républicain,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014
“Signeyrole transposes the fantastic to a psychological level. Her strong production stands not only on a refine actor’s direction but also on the successful linking of different perspectives.”
Diapason,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014
“What a pleasure to attend a performance that goes way beyond a lazy illustration of the work ! It would be all too easy to place/ locate Owen Wingrave, peaceful opera inspired by a fantastic telling, in some old mansion, where the characters would only come in and out. Luckily, Nancy city’s production offers us so much more than that, and Marie-Eve Signeyrole finds herein a way to produce an admirably successful staging.”
Forum Opéra,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014
“Owen Wingrave, ambitious and daring, at the Opéra National de Lorraine. A stage version was a risky gamble, that Marie-Eve Signeyrole won thanks to an ambitious movable set coupled with numerous video effects”.
toutelaculture.com,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014
“The freezing atmosphere of Owen Wingrave by Marie-Eve Signeyrole on a Northern sea oilfield platform brings in something claustrophobic and cinematographic that spellbinds the audience.”
Le Figaro,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014
“Benjamin Britten, we hear, wasn’t entirely convinced by the result of an experience he had put so much into. No doubt he would have been much more excited after seeing the production Marie-Eve Signeyrole just gave at the Opera National de Lorraine.”
Concert Classic,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014
“The new Owen Opera National de Lorraine in Nancy was yet another feather in the cap of an enterprising company that focuses on good theatre… Marie-Eve SIgneyrole is now making a success of going solo.”
Opera Now,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014
“Nancy dares an Owen Wingrave for the general audience - Performed in one go, without intermission, this Owen Wingrave will make a lasting impression…”
Resmusica,
Owen Wingrave, Opéra National de Lorraine,
October 2014