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| x Herbert Graf |
Herbert Graf (1903-1973) was an Austrian-American opera producer. Born in Vienna in 1903, he was the son of Max Graf (1873-1958), the Austrian author, critic, musicologist and member of Freud's circle. It is now known that the young Herbert Graf was...
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| x Michael Milenski |
Victor Michael Milenski (born 1941 in Cortez, Colorado, U.S.) founded the Long Beach Opera in 1979, and was its general director for 25 seasons, retiring in 2004. Though local opera companies had been organized in the 1920s and 1960s in metropolitan...
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| x Luchino Visconti |
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Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 - 17 March 1976) was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971). He died in Rome of a...
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| x Patrice Chéreau |
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Patrice Chéreau (born 2 November 1944) is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.
Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics...
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| x Herman Geiger-Torel |
Herman Geiger-Torel (July 13, 1907 – October 6, 1976) was a Canadian opera director.
In 1969, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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| x Calixto Bieito |
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Calixto Bieito (Miranda de Ebro, 2 November 1963) is a Spanish theater director known for his radical interpretations of classic operas.
Bieito gained perhaps his greatest notoriety with his production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera for the Gran...
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| x Siegfried Schoenbohm |
Siegfried Schoenbohm is opera stage director, born in South Dakota, USA. Was assistant of Walter Felsenstein.
Worked at:
See also Tiriel (opera)
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| x Margaret Webster |
Margaret Webster (1905 - 1972) was an American-born theater actress, producer and director. Through her parents, she held dual USA/UK citizenship.
Margaret Webster was born in New York City, the daughter of two famous actors, Ben Webster and Dame...
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| x Jonathan Miller |
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Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. Trained as a physician in the late 1950s, he first came to prominence in 1962 when the British comedy...
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| x Peter Sellars |
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Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his contemporary stagings of classical operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art as...
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| x Wolfgang Wagner |
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Wolfgang Wagner (born 30 August, 1919) was the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival from 1951 to 2008, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951.
Wolfgang is the son of Siegfried Wagner, the grandson of...
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| x Ruth Berghaus |
Ruth Berghaus (July 2, 1927 – January 25, 1996) was a German choreographer and opera and theatre director.
Berghaus was born in Dresden and studied Expressionist dance and Dance direction with Gret Palucca there and was an advanced student at the...
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| x Max von Schillings |
Max von Schillings (April 19, 1868 – Berlin, July 24, 1933) was a German conductor, composer and theatre director. He was chief conductor at the Berlin State Opera from 1919 to 1925.
Schilling's opera Mona Lisa (1915) was internationally successful...
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| x Luc Bondy |
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Luc Bondy (born 17 July 1948 in Zurich) is a Swiss theater and opera director.
Trained in Paris with the mime artist Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after...
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| x David Pountney |
David Pountney (born 10 September, 1947) is a British theatre and opera director. He has a reputation for staging rarely-performed operas.
Pountney was born in Oxford and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. From 1975 to 1980, he was the...
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| x Otto Schenk |
Otto Schenk (born June 12, 1930 in Vienna, Austria) is an actor, theatre director and production designer. He is most famous in the United States for his lavish, realist, traditionalist productions at the Metropolitan Opera. He has also produced...
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| x Walter Felsenstein |
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Walter Felsenstein (30 May 1901 – 8 October 1975) was an Austrian theater and opera director.
He was one of the most important exponents of Regietheater, productions in which drama values came before musical ones. His most famous students were Götz...
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| x Wieland Wagner |
Wieland Wagner (5 January 1917 – 17 October 1966) was a German opera director.
Wieland was the elder of two sons of Siegfried and Winifred Wagner and grandson of composer Richard Wagner.
In 1941, he married the dancer and choreographer Gertrude...
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| x Rebecca Scheiner |
Rebecca Scheiner is a German stage director; she directs operas and musicals. She has worked at the Vienna State Opera and with the Vienna Boys' Choir.
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| x Karl von Marinelli |
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Karl Edler von Marinelli (baptized September 12, 1745, Vienna – January 28, 1803, Vienna) was an actor, theatre manager and playwright.
From 1761 Marinelli was a travelling comedian in the "Schultz Company" ("Schultzsche Gesellschaft") in Baden ...
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| x Tim Ocel |
Theater and opera director Tim Ocel has directed productions for organizations ranging from Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to Shakespeare Santa Cruz to Geva Theatre in Rochester, New York to the Georgia Shakespeare Festival. He has been artistic...
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| x Jonathan Kent |
Jonathan Kent (born 1946, South Africa) is an English theatre director and opera director. He is best known as a director/producer partner of Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida Theatre fron 1990 to 2002.
After an upbringing in South Africa, educated at...
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| x Franco Zeffirelli |
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Franco Zeffirelli (b. 12 February 1923) is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television, and a politician.
Internationally, he is known for having directed the 1968 film version...
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| x Laurent Pelly |
Laurent Pelly (born 1962) is a French opera and theatre director. At the age of 18, he founded the Compagnie Théâtrale du Pélican which, since 1982, has been co-directed by Agathe Mélinand . From 1994, he became associated with Le Centre Dramatique...
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| x Max Reinhardt |
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Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 – October 30, 1943) was an Austrian (later naturalised American) theatre and film director and actor.
He was born as Maximilian Goldmann, of Jewish ancestry, in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary. From 1902 until the...
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| x Luca Ronconi |
Luca Ronconi (born 8 March 1933 in Sousse, Tunisia) is an Italian actor, theater director, and opera director.
After growing up in Tunisia, where his mother was a school teacher, he graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome in 1953. He...
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| x Giorgio Strehler |
Giorgio Strehler (August 14, 1921 – December 25, 1997) was an Italian opera and theatre director.
Strehler was born in Barcola (province of Trieste) to an Austrian father and a Franco-Slovene mother; he grew up speaking Italian, but spoke French...
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| x David McVicar |
David McVicar (born 1966, Glasgow) is a Scottish opera and theatre director. He studied as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating in 1989. In 2007 The Independent ranked him among the 100 most influential gay and...
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| x Savva Mamontov |
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Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (Russian: Савва Иванович Мамонтов, 15 October [OS 3 October] 1841, Yalutorovsk, now Tyumen Oblast — 6 April [OS 24 March] 1918, Moscow) was a famous Russian industrialist, merchant, entrepreneur, and patron of the arts.
He...
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| x Lotfi Mansouri |
Lotfollah “Lotfi” Mansouri (born 15 June 1929 in Tehran) is an Iranian-born opera director and manager. He was an opera director from about 1960 onwards, and is most well-known for being the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company and of the...
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| x Tim Supple |
Tim Supple is an English theatre and opera director, with a reputation for breathing new life into familiar stories.
Tim Supple began working as an assistant director at the York Theatre Royal.
Between 1988 and 1991 he directed at the Crucible...
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| x Götz Friedrich |
Götz Friedrich (August 4, 1930 in Naumburg, Germany – December 12, 2000 in Berlin, Germany) was a German opera and theatre director.
He was a student and assistant of Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin in (East) Berlin, where he went on...
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| x Herbert Wernicke |
Herbert Wernicke (March 24, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was a German opera director and a set and costume designer. He was born in Auggen, Baden-Württemberg. He studied piano, flute, and directing at the conservatory in Braunschweig and set design at the...
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| x Werner Herzog |
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Werner Herzog (born Werner Herzog Stipetić; 5 September 1942) is a German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.
He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer...
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| x Andrei Tarkovsky |
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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director.
Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror,...
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| x Francesca Zambello |
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. She attended Moscow University in...
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| x Christoph Schlingensief |
Christoph Maria Schlingensief (born October 24, 1960 in Oberhausen) is a German film and theatre director, actor and author. Because of his often controversial work he has often been called a "scandal-maker".
As a young man he organized art "events"...
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| x Robert Wilson |
Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked...
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| x Friedlinde Wagner |
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Friedelind Wagner (29 March 1918 – 8 May 1991) was the daughter of German opera composer Siegfried Wagner and his English wife, Winifred Williams and the granddaughter of the famous composer Richard Wagner. Born in Bayreuth, she was known by the...
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| x Ronald Eyre |
Ronald Eyre (13 April 1929 – 8 April 1992) was an English theatre director, actor and writer.
Eyre was born at Mapplewell, near Barnsley, Yorkshire and he taught at Giggleswick School. He became a leading director for the cinema, opera, television...
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| x Beatrice Carmichael |
Beatrice (Van Loon) Carmichael (died 1964). She was Edmonton's Grand Dame of the opera. Born in South Bend, Indiana, she was the daughter of a talented professional musician, Henry van Loon. She started into music at around four years old by singing...
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| x Giovanni Battista Locatelli |
Giovanni Battista Locatelli (January 7, 1713 – March 14, 1785) was an Italian opera director and owner of a private opera company.
In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to...
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| x Peter Stein |
Peter Stein (born October 1, 1937) is a critically-acclaimed German theatre and opera director who established himself at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, a company that he brought to the forefront of German theatre.
Born in Berlin, Stein grew up...
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| x Jürgen Flimm |
Jürgen Flimm was born in Gießen, Germany. He studied theory of drama, literature and sociology at the University of Cologne and started his career with his first position as assistant director at the Munich Kammerspiele in 1968. He had positions as...
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| x Pier Luigi Pizzi |
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La nascita di Orfeo |
Pier Luigi Pizzi (June 15, 1930 – ) is an Italian opera director, set designer, and costume designer.
Pizzi was born in Milan, Italy, and earned a degree in architecture at the Politecnico in Milan. Against the will of his skeptical father, he...
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| x Harry Kupfer |
Harry Kupfer (born 12 August 1935) is a German opera director. He studied theatre in Leipzig and directed his first opera, Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka, in 1958.
Kupfer was a protégé of Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper Berlin. From 1981 to 2002,...
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| x Robert Lepage | The Rake's Progress |
Robert Lepage, CC, OQ (born December 12, 1957 in Québec City) is a playwright, actor and film director from Québec City, Québec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.
Lepage was raised in Québec City. At age five, he was diagnosed...
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| x Antoine Bourseiller | Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil | ||
| x Maria Francesca Siciliani | Marilyn | ||
| x Caterina Mattea | La figlia del mago | ||
| x Giorgio Barberio Corsetti | Mare nostro | ||
| x Peter Wehran | Marilyn | ||
| Night | |||
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| x Luciano Damiani | Salvatore Giuliano |
Luciano Damiani (1923-2007) was an Italian stage and costume designer, who worked both for theatre and opera productions.
Damiani studied painting and only by chance started working for the stage. Soon he became a close collaborator of Giorgio...
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| x Mario Martone | Charlotte Corday | ||
| x Massimo Schuster | Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir | ||
| x Nic Muni | La conquista | ||
| x Francesco Frongia | Le piccole storie - ai margini delle guerre | ||
| x Giorgio Gallione | La rondine by Gicomo Puccini - Third version completed by Lorenzo Ferrero | ||
| x Meme Perlini | The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar - Instrumentation for chamber orchestra by Lorenzo Ferrero | ||
| x Achim Thorwald | Salvatore Giuliano | ||
