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Opera Director list
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| Herbert Graf | Person |
Herbert Graf (1903-1973) was an Austria-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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| Michael Milenski | Person |
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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| Luchino Visconti |
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Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard (1963). He died in Rome of a stroke at the age of 69. There is a...
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| Patrice Chéreau | Person |
Patrice Chéreau (born 2 November 1944) is a French opera and theatre director, filmmaker, actor, and producer.
Patrice Chéreau was born in Lézigné, France, and went to school in Paris. At a young age he became well-known to Parisian critics as...
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| Herman Geiger-Torel | Person |
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.
Geiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger-Torel, HermanGeiger...
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| 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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| Siegfried Schoenbohm | Person |
Siegfried Schoenbohm is opera stage director, born in South Dakota, USA. Was assistant of Walter Felsenstein.
Worked at:
See also Tiriel (opera)
Schoenbohm, Siegfried
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| Margaret Webster | Person |
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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| Jonathan Miller |
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Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British neurologist, theatre and opera director, author, television presenter, humorist and sculptor. He lives in Camden, North London.
Miller grew up in St John's Wood, London, in a well...
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| Peter Sellars |
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Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theater director, renowned for his contemporary stagings of classical operas and plays. Sellars is professor of World Arts and Culture at U.C.L.A. where he teaches Art as Social Action and Art...
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| 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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| Ruth Berghaus | Person |
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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| Max von Schillings | Person |
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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| Luc Bondy | Person |
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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| David Pountney | Person |
David Pountney (born 10 September, 1947) is a British theater 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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| Otto Schenk | Person |
Otto Schenk (born June 12, 1930 in Vienna, Austria) is an actor, theater 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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| Walter Felsenstein |
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Walter Felsenstein (30 May 1901 – 8 October 1975) was a theater and opera director.
Felsenstein was born in Vienna and began his career at the Burgtheater in his birthcity and from 1923 to 1932 was a theater actor in Lübeck, Mannheim, and Bytom,...
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| Wieland Wagner | Person |
Wieland Wagner (January 5, 1917 – October 17, 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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| Rebecca Scheiner | Person |
Rebecca Scheiner is a German stage director; she directs opera and musicals. She has worked at the Vienna State Opera and with the Vienna Boys' Choir.
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| 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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| Tim Ocel | Person |
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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| Jonathan Kent | Person |
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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| Franco Zeffirelli |
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Franco Zeffirelli, KBE (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of opera, theatre, film and television.
Internationally, he is known for having directed the 1968...
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| Laurent Pelly | Person |
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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| Max Reinhardt |
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Max Reinhardt (September 9, 1873 - October 30, 1943) was an Austria (later naturalised American) theatre and film director and actor.
He was born as Maximilian Goldmann, of Jew ancestry, in Baden bei Wien, Austria-Hungary. From 1902 until the...
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| Luca Ronconi | Person |
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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| Giorgio Strehler | Person |
Giorgio Strehler (August 14 1921 – December 25 1997) was one of the most influential directors of Italian opera and theatre.
Strehler was born in Barcola (province of Trieste) to an Austria father and a French/Slovene mother, he grew up speaking...
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| David McVicar | Person |
David McVicar (born 1966, Glasgow) is a Scottish opera and theatre director. He studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. In 2007 The Independent ranked him among the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.
McVicar's...
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| Savva Mamontov |
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Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (, 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 was a son of the merchant and...
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| Lotfi Mansouri | Person |
Lotfollah “Lotfi” Mansouri (b. 15 June, 1929) is an Iran-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 San Francisco...
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| Tim Supple | Person |
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 Theatre Royal in York.
Between 1988 and 1991 he directed at the Crucible...
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| Götz Friedrich | Person |
Götz Friedrich (born August 4, 1930 in Naumburg, Germany; died 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...
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| Herbert Wernicke | Person |
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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| Werner Herzog |
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Werner Herzog (born Werner H. Stipetić; September 5, 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director.
He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also called New German Cinema), along with Rainer Werner...
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| Andrei Tarkovsky |
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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932 - December 29, 1986) was a Soviet film director, writer and opera director. Tarkovksy is listed among the 100 most critically acclaimed filmmaker. He attained critical acclaim for directing such films as...
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| Francesca Zambello | Person |
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. She attended Moscow University in 1976 and graduated from Colgate...
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| Christoph Schlingensief | Person |
Christoph 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" in...
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| Robert Wilson | Person |
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 as...
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| Friedlinde Wagner | Person |
Friedlinde Wagner (March 29, 1918 - May 8, 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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| Ronald Eyre | Person |
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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| Beatrice Carmichael | Person |
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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| Giovanni Battista Locatelli | Person |
Giovanni Battista Locatelli (1713-c1770) 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 three times a week they...
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| Peter Stein | Film cinematographer |
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 he arguably brought to the forefront of German theatre.
Born in Berlin, Stein grew...
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| Jürgen Flimm | Person |
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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| Pier Luigi Pizzi | Person |
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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| Harry Kupfer | Person |
Harry Kupfer (born 12 August 1935) is a German director known for his avant-garde productions of Richard Wagner, which often got him into trouble under the former communist regime of East Germany.
For 21 years Kupfer was director of Berlin's...
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| Robert Lepage | Person | The Rake's Progress |
Robert Lepage, OQ (born December 12, 1957 in Quebec City) is a playwright, actor and film director from Quebec City, Quebec, and is one of Canada's most honoured theatre artists.
Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with...
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| Antoine Bourseiller | Film actor | Rimbaud, ou le fils du soleil | ||
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| Maria Francesca Siciliani | Person | Marilyn | ||
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