Recent productions: Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy (La Monnaie-De Munt Brussels), Britten's Death in Venice (Opéra National du Rhin), Verdi's Il Trovatore (Opéra de Rouen Normandie).
Upcoming productions : Dvorak's Rusalka (Opéra Grand Avignon, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra de Nice Côte d'Azur), Bellini's La Sonnambula (Teatro dell'Opera di Roma).
Based in Bordeaux, Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab is a creative arts company exploring all variations of performing classical music on stage. In the form of a co-operation between stage-directors Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Deloeuil, light-designers Rick Martin and Christophe Pitoiset, videographers Jean-Baptiste Beïs, Benjamin Juhel, Pascal Boudet and Timothée Buisson, graphic-designer Julien Roques, dramatic advisor Luc Bourrousse and artistic collaborator Lodie Kardous, this team is exploring the world of multidisciplinary productions under the joint motto:
Opera, musical-theatre and concert as a tool for checking out what is topical at present. The creative work by Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab is never interested in the chosen piece only, but also in the political and social settings of the performance.
The company has already collaborated with notable European institutions such as La Monnaie-De Munt Brussels, Fundaçao Gulbenkian Lisbon, Casa da Musica Porto, ABAO Bilbao, Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano, Staatstheater Nurnberg, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Theater Freiburg, Opéra Comique Paris, Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra National du Rhin, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Opéra National de Montpellier, Opéra de Limoges, Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Musica Festival Strasbourg.
In June 2018, Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab was awarded "Best creation of scenic elements“ by the French Association Professionnelle de la Critque de Théâtre, Musique et Danse for their productions of Peer Gynt, Schubert Box as well as Butterfly at the Opéra de Limoges.