Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

male, 86 years old
Honorary British knighthoods, from the Province of Florence, opera, easter, tosca, jesus of nazareth…Theatre director, film director, metropolitan opera, Operadirector, royal opera house
Franco Zeffirelli (born Gianfranco Corsi on February 12, 1923), is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer and producer of...
Peter Sellars

Peter Sellars

male, 52 years old
Pericles, Prince of Tyre, handel, chekhov, three sister, ring, macarthur foundation…Theater Director, Theatre director, Operadirector
Peter Sellars (born 1957) is an American theater director, renowned for his modern stagings of classical operas and plays. Sellars is professor of...
Jonathan Miller

Jonathan Miller

male, 75 years old
A Brief History of Disbelief, born in 1934, father of 3, married to Helen Rachel Collet, Beyond the Fringe comedy troupe, knighted in the 2002…Operadirector, opera
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller, CBE (born 21 July 1934) is a British neurologist, theatre and opera director, television presenter, humourist and...
Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson

male, 68 years old
Pratt Institute alumni, avant-garde, Pratt Institute, sound, Stage Director, Einstein on the Beach…Theatre director, director, Operadirector
Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called...

Wolfgang Wagner

male
Bayreuth Festival, German, Theatre Producer, The Transformation of the World into Music, German culture, Bayreuth Festspielhaus…opera, Operadirector
Wolfgang Wagner (b. 1919) is the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951....
Francesca Zambello

Francesca Zambello

female, 53 years old
Theatre director, Colgate University, washington opera, Moscow University, Seattle Children's Theatre, Houston Grand Opera…San Francisco Opera, metropolitan opera, Operadirector, royal opera, paris opera
Francesca Zambello (born 1956) is a leading American opera and theatre director. Zambello lived in Europe when she was a child, learning to speak...
Gian Carlo Menotti

Gian Carlo Menotti

male, deceased (2007)
The Saint of Bleecker Street, LGBT, libretto, The Consul, pulitzer prize, Opera librettist…opera, Opera composer, Operadirector, film director, The Medium film director
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-born American composer and librettist who wrote the classic Christmas opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors" among...
Lotfi Mansouri

Lotfi Mansouri

male, 80 years old
Iranian expatriate in Canada, Iranian Canadian, From tehran, Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Lotfollah Mansouri…opera, Opera manager, Operadirector, Opera Consultant, Stage Director
Lotfi Mansouri (born Lotfollah Mansouri on 15 June, 1929 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian opera director and manager. He was an opera director from...
Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog

male, 67 years old
German-language film director, 2005 Sundance Film Festival, opera, From Munich, New German Cinema, film director…Operadirector
Werner Herzog is a German film director, screenwriter, actor, and opera director. He is often associated with the German New Wave movement (also...
Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti

male, deceased (1976)
Duke in Italy, Germany and Austria, duke, visconti, cinema director, The Leopard, House of Visconti…Operadirector, film director, director, Theatre director
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Duke of Modrone (November 2, 1906 - March 17, 1976) was an Italian theatre and cinema director and writer, best known...