Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau is a director, set designer, and costume designer. He was born in 1979.

Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau has directed Carmen at the Estonian National Opera, Massenet’s Thaïs in Saint-Étienne, Rossini’s Semiramide in Rouen, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra de Québec, Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict in Nantes and Rennes, Puccini’s La Rondine at the Teatro Regio di Torino, and Rossini’s Tancredi in Biel and Rouen. His projects include Il Barbiere di Siviglia in Marseille, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel at the Opéra National du Rhin, Semiramide at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, and a new production of Bellini’s I Puritani at the Teatro Regio di Turin.

In recent seasons, Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau has designed new productions (sets, costumes, and direction) of Humperdinck’s Hansel und Gretel at the Opéra National du Rhin (a performance captured on French television), Gianni Schicchi’s La Clemenza di Tito at the Rennes Opera and Angers-Nantes Opera for the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival, Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Opéra National du Rhin, the Saint-Etienne Opera, and the Rouen-Normandie Opera (a performance captured on French television), Offenbach’s Les Fées du Rhin at the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Grand Théâtre de Tours, and the Theater-Orchester Biel-Solothurn. He has also revived Le Comte Ory at the Rennes Opera and the Rouen Opera, and he has created a new production of Don Pasquale for the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival.

Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau also designed the stage productions, sets, and costumes for Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia, Donizetti’s Viva la Mamma (revived in 2015 in Basel and Treviso), Rossini’s Le Comte Ory, and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale at the Theater Orchester Biel-Solothurn. He has been invited by the Geneva Chamber Opera to perform Offenbach’s Pomme d’Api / Monsieur Choufleuri and Mozart’s Il Re Pastore. With the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, he has created a staging for Mozart’s Schauspieldirektor. Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau has directed Léhar’s Le Pays du Sourire at the Grand Théâtre de Tours, Don Pasquale at the San Sebastian Festival, as well as at the Metz Opera, and L’Italienne à Alger at the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival.

In 2010, Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau directed and designed the costumes for Gretry’s L’Amant jaloux (Royal Opera of Versailles, Opéra-Comique), a show that reopened at the Royal Opera of Versailles.

Alongside his work as a director, Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau has given numerous masterclasses at the Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal, the Neuchatel Conservatory (Switzerland), the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice, the CRR in Boulogne-Billancourt, and the Academy of the Ensemble Il Caravaggio.