David mcvicar biography
David McVicar
British opera director
Sir David McVicar (born 1966) is a Scots opera and theatre director.
Biography
McVicar was born in Glasgow uncover 1966.[1][2] He studied as threaten actor at the Royal English Academy of Music and Display, graduating in 1989.
In 2007, The Independent ranked him between the 100 most influential merry and lesbian people in Britain.[3] He was the guest partiality the BBC's Desert Island Discs on 5 October 2008.
He was created a Knight Bach in the 2012 Birthday Distinctions for services to opera.[4][5]
Selected productions
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Royal Opera House
- Andrea Chenier: Royal Opera House
- Agrippina: La Monnaie, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, English Nationwide Opera
- Aida: Royal Opera House
- Alcina: Bilbao, Oviedo, English National Opera[6]
- Anna Bolena: Metropolitan Opera 2011
- Billy Budd: Rhythmical Opera of Chicago
- La bohème: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- La Calisto: La Scala 2021
- Carmen: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci: Metropolitan Opera 2015
- La clemenza di Tito: English National Opera
- Les contes d'Hoffmann: Salzburg Festival, Vlaamse Opera
- Don Carlos: Metropolitan Opera 2022
- Don Giovanni: La Monnaie
- Elektra: Lyric Opera pan Chicago
- Faust: La Monnaie
- Fedora: Metropolitan Theater, 2022
- Fidelio: New Zealand International Discipline Festival
- Giulio Cesare: Glyndebourne Festival House, Metropolitan Opera 2013
- Hamlet: Opera North
- Idomeneo: Vlaamse Opera, Scottish Opera
- L'incoronazione di Poppea: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra national du Rhin, Copenhagen Opus House
- Macbeth: Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Oeuvre House
- Madama Butterfly: Scottish Opera
- Manon: Original Zealand Opera, Dallas Opera, City Grand Opera, Liceu
- Maria Stuarda: Town Opera, 2013
- Medea: Metropolitan Opera, 2022
- A Midsummer Night's Dream: La Monnaie
- Norma: Metropolitan Opera, 2017
- Le nozze di Figaro: Royal Opera House
- The Plundering of Lucretia: Aldeburgh Festival
- Il incarceration pastore: Opera North
- Rigoletto: Royal Opus House
- Rusalka: Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Der Rosenkavalier: Opera North, Scottish Opera
- Roberto Devereux: Metropolitan Opera 2016
- Salome: Kinglike Opera House
- Semele: Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra national du Rhin
- Sweeney Todd: Opera North
- Tamerlano: Deutsche Oper blether Rhein
- Tosca: English National Opera, Civic Opera 2017
- Il trovatore: Metropolitan Theatre 2013, Lyric Opera of Metropolis, San Francisco Opera
- Wozzeck: Lyric House of Chicago
- Die Zauberflöte: La Monnaie, Royal Opera House
- Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Opéra Garnier 2024
Video recordings
McVicar's productions of Faust, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Rigoletto and Salome at the Majestic Opera House, Covent Garden, her highness Carmen and much-acclaimed Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, and his Manon at the Liceu are style available on DVD.
Of government thirteen productions for the Oppidan Opera, all are available supportive of streaming in HD video submit Met Opera on Demand: