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3 unusual facts about Robert Lepage


Eva-Maria Westbroek

Westbroek made her Metropolitan Opera debut on April 22, 2011 singing the role of Sieglinde in the premiere of a new production of Wagner's "Die Walküre" directed by Robert Lepage.

Jean-Sébastien Côté

Since 1999, he has been working with Canadian director Robert Lepage, designing the sound and / or composing the music for many of his plays like The Blue Dragon, The Andersen Project, The Far Side of the Moon and Zulu Time.

Robert Caux

He was closely associated with Robert Lepage for many years, as he composed the music from his plays Needles and Opium, The Dragons' Trilogy and Elsinore, for which he won 1995's Masque (Quebec's equivalent of a Tony Award) for original music.


Khaled Habib

Khaled Habib’s artistic field extends into the domains of performing and directing his shows, as well as composing music for films and theatre plays, such as La Celestina set up at the Swedish Royal Dramatic Theater (Dramaten) under the direction of Robert Lepage (1998), and the film Nattbok by Carl Henrik Svenstedt, “Vingar av glas” and “Cappricciosa” directed by Reza Bagher,”Huvudrollen” by Leyla Assaf-Tangroth.

Marianne Ackerman

The company also staged The Echo Project, a play developed by Robert Lepage from Ann Diamond's book of poetry, A Nun's Story and Ackerman worked with Lepage on Alienouidet, a play about the actor Edmund Kean in Canada.

National cinema

MacKenzie argues that Canadian cinema has a "...self-conscious concern with the incorporation of cinematic and televisual images", and as examples, he cites films such as David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983), Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing (1987), Robert Lepage's Le Confessional (1995) and Srinivas Krishna's Masala (1991).

Panasonic Globe Theatre

Guest companies and artists have included the British Royal National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Ingmar Bergman, Peter Brook, Barry Kyle and Robert Lepage, as well as such Kabuki stars as Bando Tamasaburo (Lady Macbeth), and Ichikawa Somegoro (Kabuki Hamlet).

Polly Irvin

In 2002, Irvin published her first book, Directing for the Stage, a series of interviews with contemporaray theatre directors including Deborah Warner, Robert Lepage and Trevor Nunn.


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