Mathieu Guertin
Technician / Creator - Film director
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OPERA
2011
Art & stage director | C.M Weber: Der Freischütz (selected aria)
École de Musique Vincent d'Indy
Art & stage director | W.A Mozart: Don Giovanni (selected aria)
École de Musique Vincent d'Indy
Assistant stage director | Lorca revisité (création) | DIVISE THEATRE PERFORMANCE & OPERA| Stage Director : Marta Candia | Théâtre l'Esquisse Montréal
Art & Stage Director | G. Bizet : Les pêcheurs de perles | OPERA Production Opera Immediat Théâtre Rouge Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Montréal |
http://www.opera-immediat.com/pecheurs-de-perles.html
2010
Art & Stage Director | Giaccomo Donizetti: Elisir d'Amore | OPERA | Production Opera Immediat Théâtre Rouge Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Montréal
Assistant stage director & tour art director | Jacques Offenbach: Tales of Hoffmann | OPERA | Jeunesses Musicales du Canada | Rehearsals september 2009 | National tour from November 2009 till May 2010 Stage Director Marie Nathalie Lacoursière | Musical Director Louise Andrée Baril | Conductor Stephane Laforest.
2009
Art & Stage Director | Various scenes from: W.A Mozart, G. Donizetti, C. Gounod, F. Lehar, C Mennotti, L Bernstein arias | OPERA & OPERETTA PERFORMANCE | St-Patrick Church Sherbrooke | Sherbrooke University | School of Music
Assistant stage director & tour art director | G. Rossini: The Barber of Seville | OPERA | Jeunesses Musicales du Canada | Rehearsals september 2008 | National tour from November 2008 till May 2009 | Stage Director Guy Beausoleil | Musical director Louise Andrée Baril | Conductor Stephane Laforest.
2008
Assistant stage director & tour art director | Franzt Lehar: The Merry Widow | OPERETTA | JMC & OPERA de Québec | Rehearsals september 2007 | National tour from November 2007 till May 2008 | Stage Director François Langlois | Musical director Jean François Lapointe | Conductor Stephane Laforest.
2007
Assistant stage director & stage manager | W.A Mozart: The Magic flute | OPERA | JMC & OPERA de Québec | National tour from October 2006 till April 2007 | Stage Director François Racine | Musical director Jean François Lapointe & Louise Andrée Baril.
THEATRE
2011
Art & Stage Director | Carlo Golgoni : Le Menteur | THEATRE | PGLO auditorium Montreal
Art & Stage Director | David Edgard: Prisoner Dilema (french version) | THEATRE | PGLO auditorium Montreal
Theatre manager | Casteliers | OBJECT AND MARIONETTE THEATRE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL | Director Louise Lapointe | PGLO auditorium & Théâtre Outremont | Montreal
2010
Art & stage director | Michel Tremblay: Le vrai monde | THEATRE | Camp de théâtre NVNV | Art neuf theatre Montreal
Stage manager | Sophie Bisonnette: Être ou paraître
Office National du Film du Canada special presentation | PERFORMANCE | PGLO auditorium Montreal
2008
Assistant stage director & stage manager | Pablo Neruda: Autour de Pablo Neruda | PERFORMANCE & POÉSIE | director Cecile Lasserre | Théâtre du Vieux Terrebonne | Terrebonne
2006
Assistant director & stage manager | Sam Bobrick and Ron Clark: No Hard Feelings (french) | Stage Director Monique Duceppe | Théâtre des Hirondelles | St-Mathieu de Beloeil
EDUCATION
MATP
Master Advanced Theatre Practice | Directing for theatre
Central School of Speech and Drama. London | UK
(2001 - 2003)
www.cssd.ac.uk
Production studies (two years attestation)
École Nationale de Théâtre du Canada. Montreal | Canada
(1998 - 2000)
www.ent-nts.qc.ca
Visual Arts and Communication
(1995 - 1997)
Collège Jean de Brébeuf.
Montreal | Canada
APTITUDES
Bilingual (French, English).
Working knowledge’s of Italian, Spanish and German (Opera).
Musical background.
ABOUT Mathieu Guertin:
Mr. Guertin always expects the best from himself and others during a creative process. He is meticulous, diplomatic and successful in the accomplishment of his artistic projects. He mannages his rehearsal time skillfully. His sensitivity to the artists’ creative capacities brings the best out of each of them. Mathieu Guertin has the aptitude to devise and emphasize a masterpiece efficiently and in the process make it his own. He therefore creates convincing stage directing and visual effects suitable to a variety of audiences.
Olivier Godin
Co-Principal, opera studio Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
Voice coach , McGill University