Francesca Zambello (born 1956) is a leading American opera and theatre director.
Zambello lived in Europe when she was a child, learning to speak French, Italian, German and Russian. Zambello is of Italian descent, the daughter of Jean (née Sincere), an actress and Charles C. Zambello, a former actor who became head of flight entertainment at TWA. She attended Moscow University in 1976 and graduated from Colgate University in 1978.
Zambello is op...
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Francesca Zambello (born 1956) is a leading American opera and theatre director.
Zambello lived in Europe when she was a child, learning to speak French, Italian, German and Russian. Zambello is of Italian descent, the daughter of Jean (née Sincere), an actress and Charles C. Zambello, a former actor who became head of flight entertainment at TWA. She attended Moscow University in 1976 and graduated from Colgate University in 1978.
Zambello is openly lesbian.
Zambello began her career as an Assistant Director to the celebrated opera directors Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and Nathaniel Merrill. From 1984 to 1991 she was the Artistic Director of the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee. In recent years she has worked at the Metropolitan Opera in New York (Alfanos Cyrano de Bergerac with Plácido Domingo), the Washington National Opera (Wagners Ring, co-produced with the San Francisco Opera), Houston Grand Opera, the Bolshoi, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, the Royal Opera in London and the Paris...
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