Adriana Mater received its world premiere at the Opéra Bastille on 3 April 2006 in a production directed by which American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays?
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Adriana Mater Adriana Mater is the second opera by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, with a libretto in French by her frequent collaborator, Amin Maalouf. The National Opera of Paris and the Finnish National Opera jointly commissioned the opera. It received its world premiere at the Opéra Bastille on 3 April 2006 in a production directed by Peter Sellars. The production was dedicated to Gerard Mortier, Artistic Director of the National Opera of Paris.
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Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (born 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at UCLA, where he teaches "Art as Social Action" and "Art as Moral Action".
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American Lyric Theater American Lyric Theater (ALT) an opera company based in New York City and they specialize in the development of new works. It was founded by Lawrence Edelson in 2005.
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Chris Jones (drama critic) Christopher Nigel "Chris" Jones (born September 10, 1963) is an American journalist and the chief theater critic and Sunday culture columnist of the "Chicago Tribune". On January 28, 2014 it was announced that he would also become the director of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute in Waterford, Connecticut. Jones also appears live on the news broadcast of CBS-2 Chicago as a weekly theater critic. In 2001, he was featured in an article in "American Theatre" magazine about the 12 most influential theater critics in America. In 2016, the "New York Times" cited Jones as an important reason that Broadway shows try out in Chicago, noting the role his reviews have played in helping producers improve the productions for New York runs.
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Leonard Foglia Leonard Foglia (born August 24, 1954) is an American theatre director, librettist, and novelist.
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Kevin Noe Kevin Patrick Noe (born January 7, 1969 in Dallas, Texas) is an American conductor, stage director, writer, and trumpeter. He is currently the Executive Artistic Director of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and a regular guest conductor of orchestra, opera, and ballet at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music
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Jeff Whiting Jeff Whiting (born March 27, 1972 in Denver, Colorado) is an American theater director, choreographer, performer and entrepreneur. He has been involved in theatrical productions, concerts, operas and special events around the world. Whiting is also known for developing "Stage Write," an app that allows creation, duplication and editing of floorplan charts to facilitate stage choreography.
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Robert Falls Robert Falls (born March 2, 1954) is an American theater director and the current artistic director of the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Daniel Slater Daniel Slater (born 20 April 1966) is a British theatre and opera director.
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Tim Albery Tim Bronson Reginald Albery (born 20 May 1952) is an English stage director, best known for his productions of opera.
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Harold Prince Harold Smith Prince (born January 30, 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the 20th century. He has garnered twenty-one Tony Awards, more than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing the year's Best Musical, two as Best Producer of a Musical, and three special awards.
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Rachel Rockwell Rachel Rockwell is an American theater director, choreographer and performer. She graduated from the School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati) and has a BFA in Theater Performance from the University of Evansville (IN). She moved to Chicago in 1991 and began performing and choreographing. She has appeared on Broadway in Mamma Mia! and the national tours of Mamma Mia! (Equity Dance Captain); and Harold Prince's Showboat. In 2010, she was named "Best Director" by Chicago Magazine. and Chicagoan of the Year: Theater 2012 by the Chicago Tribune. In July 2014, Goodman Theatre, in association with Liza Lerner and Kevin McCollum, produced the first major revival of Brigadoon in two decades—directed and choreographed by Rockwell, who, with Brian Hill (author), updated the book, with permission from the Lerner and Loewe estates. In his New York Times review, Charles Isherwood called her production "a first-class revival that boasts an infectious buoyancy of spirit and a welcome absence of postmodern flourishes." Her productions of "Ride The Cyclone" and "Billy Eliot" were named two of the Top Ten productions in Chicago for 2015. Her U.S. premiere Chicago Shakespeare Theatre production of "Ride The Cyclone" was then produced Off-Broadway at MCC Theater, and named Best of 2016 by the New York Times. She directed the World Premiere of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" at Minneapolis Children's Theatre in April, 2016.
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Diane Paulus Diane Marie Paulus (born 1966 in New York City, USA) is an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater (ART) at Harvard University in 2009. Paulus was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for her revival of "Hair", and won the award in 2013 for her revival of "Pippin". She has received the 2009 Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award and the Columbia University IAL Diamond Award.
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Francesca Zambello Francesca Zambello (born August 24, 1956) is an American opera and theatre director. She serves as director of Glimmerglass Festival and the Washington National Opera.
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L'ambassadrice L'ambassadrice is an opera or opéra comique in 3 acts by composer Daniel Auber. The work's French language libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. The opera's world premiere was staged by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris on 21 December 1836. It was revived in Paris on 4 January 2013 by the opera company Les Frivolités Parisiennes at the initiative of two research fellows who specialized in nineteenth-century historically informed performance, Pierre Girod (vocal coach) and Charlotte Loriot (stage director).
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Toledo Opera The Toledo Opera is an American opera company based in Toledo, Ohio. Founded in 1959, the company's first General Director was Lester Freedman with conductor Joseph Hawthorne of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra serving as Music Director. In 1960 Freedman founded the Dayton Opera and for many years he led the two organizations simultaneously - an arrangement which cut down on production costs for both companies. In 1983 Freedman was forced out of his position by the Toledo Opera's board after several years of financial problems and in-fighting among the company's leadership. Several interim directors kept the company going over the next three years, including David Bamberger and Johan van der Merwe.
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Sarah Cameron Sunde Sarah Cameron Sunde is an American theatrical director and translator based in New York City. She is a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television, and is a Lincoln Center Directors Lab "alumna". She has directed plays in New York City, California and Great Britain.
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David Armstrong (director) David Armstrong (Director) is the Executive Producer and Artistic Director of The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. Since his appointment in 2000, he has guided The 5th Avenue to a position as one of the nation's leading musical theater companies, acclaimed for both its development and production of new works and its innovative stagings of classic musicals. As a director, he staged 5th Avenue productions of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris; A Room With a View; Oliver!, Candide, , HAIR, A Little Night Music, Company, Hello, Dolly!, Anything Goes, MAME, Pippin, The Secret Garden, Vanities, White Christmas, The Rocky Horror Show, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Saving Aimee.
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Gilberto Zaldívar Juan Gilberto Zaldívar (March 28, 1934 – October 6, 2009) was the Cuban-born American co-founder of the Repertorio Español a Spanish language theater company based in New York City that presents classic Spanish plays, modern works from Hispanic playwrights and adaptions of works from other languages. Zaldívar spent nearly four decades at the helm of Repertorio Español, which he established in 1968 together with Artistic Director René Buch.
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Anthony Quartuccio Anthony Quartuccio is an American music director and conductor.
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Erik Ehn Erik Ehn is an American playwright and director known for proposing the Regional Alternative Theatre movement. The former dean of theater at CalArts, the California Institute of Arts, he is head of playwriting and professor of theatre and performance studies at Brown University. His published works include "The Saint Plays", "Beginner", and "13 Christs".
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Prince Music Theater The Prince Theater is a non-profit theatrical producing organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and specializing in music theatre, including opera, music drama, musical comedy and experimental forms. Founded in 1984 as the American Music Theater Festival by Marjorie Samoff, Eric Salzman and Ron Kaiserman, for the first 15 years AMTF performed in various venues throughout Philadelphia. In March 1999, AMTF moved into the renovated Midtown Theater and changed its name in honor of Broadway producer and director Harold Prince. AMTF/Prince Theater has produced 92 world premieres and has sent 81 productions to theaters in New York and worldwide.