Opera directors

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 130. Chapters: Andrei Tarkovsky, Max Reinhardt, Franco Zeffirelli, Luchino Visconti, Werner Herzog, Vladimir Rosing, Jonathan Miller, Robert Wilson, Dimitris Papaioannou, Renata Scotto, Éric Vigner, Peter Sellars, Richard Foreman, Julie Taymor, Fiona Shaw, Wendy Toye, Christoph Schlingensief, Barrie Kosky, Peter Hall, Adelaide Bishop, Stanislas Nordey, David Alden, James Billings, Karl Böhm, Giorgio Strehler, Patrice Chéreau, Vicco von Bülow, Wieland Wagner, Richard Eyre, Steven Pimlott, Diane Paulus, Otto Schenk, Martha Clarke, Phyllida Lloyd, Frederick Ashton, Christopher Alden, Silvio Varviso, Katie Mitchell, Elke Neidhardt, Max von Schillings, Luc Bondy, Jonathan Kent, John Dexter, Lotfi Mansouri, Jeannette Aster, Ruth Berghaus, Peter Stein, Mark Lamos, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Tito Capobianco, Lindsay Posner, Siegfried Matthus, Deborah Warner, Olivier Py, Colin Graham, Robert Shaw, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Albert Carré, Paul Curran, Savva Mamontov, Thor Steingraber, Leon Major, John Bell, Neil Armfield, Calixto Bieito, Margaret Webster, Robert Chevara, Toni Servillo, Tim Ocel, Richard Jones, Jürgen Flimm, Hans Neuenfels, Frank Corsaro, Dmitry Chernyakov, Tim Supple, Friedlinde Wagner, Richard Pearlman, Àlex Ollé, Peter Konwitschny, Thaddeus Strassberger, Alexander Gelman, Anton Coppola, David McVicar, Luca Ronconi, Jean Giraudeau, Clemens von und zu Franckenstein, Jan Nepomuk Maýr, Francesca Zambello, Jérôme Savary, Josef Munclinger, Walter Felsenstein, Dalia Ibelhauptaite, Allen Oxenburg, Robert Jarman, Armando Agnini, Chris Harris, Michael Milenski, Enrica Clay Dillon, Götz Friedrich, Laurent Pelly, David Pountney, Gerard Mortier, Katharina Wagner, Michael Pollock, Alexis Minotis, List of opera directors, Rhoda Levine, Graham Vick, Beni Montresor, Rostislav Zakharov, Helena Kaut-Howson, Richard Bradshaw, Nike Wagner, András Kürthy, Herbert Wernicke, John Fisher, Willy Decker, Giampaolo Zennaro, Giulio Chazalettes, Emil Ábrányi, John La Bouchardière, Ernst von Possart, Powell Lloyd, Penny Woolcock, Garnett Bruce, Louis Musy, Andreas Meyer-Hanno, Kasper Bech Holten, Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, Leonid Baratov, Boris Pokrovsky, Stephen Unwin, Karl von Marinelli, Ronald Eyre, Edgar Baitzel, Giovanni Battista Locatelli, Arsenije Milosevic, Beatrice Carmichael, Nicholas Heath, Darren Keith Woods, Claes Fellbom, Moffatt Oxenbould, Václav KaSlík, Eric Crozier, Walter Sutcliffe, Stephen Barlow, Olefine Moe, Giancarlo del Monaco, Lou Rodgers, Michael Best, Joseph Conlin, Wesley Balk, Rebecca Scheiner, Gaetano Molla, Günther Rennert, Alan Stone, Laszlo Halasz, Ray Smolover, Siegfried Schoenbohm, Daniel Kramer, Herman Geiger-Torel, Rudolf Noelte, Lester Freedman, Daniel Slater, John Simon White. Excerpt: Vladimir Sergeyevich Rosing (Russian: ) (January 23 1890 - November 24, 1963), aka Val Rosing, was a Russian-born operatic tenor and stage director who spent most of his professional career in England and the United States. In his formative years he experienced the last gasp of the Golden Age of Opera, and subsequently dedicated himself through his singing and directing into breathing new life into opera's outworn mannerisms and methods. Rosing was considered by many to rank as a singer and performer of the quality of Feodor Chaliapin. In his book The Perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw called Chaliapin and Vladimir Rosing "the two most extraordinary singers of the 20th century." Vladimir Rosing's recordings are best known for h...