David Pountney

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David Pountney, 2009

Sir David Willoughby Pountney CBE (born September 10, 1947 in Oxford ) is a British theater director and artistic director . From 2004 to 2014 he was director of the Bregenz Festival .

Life

His breakthrough came in 1972 at the Wexford Festival . As stage director of the English National Opera , he staged The Fairy-Queen , Lady Macbeth von Mzensk and Dr. Faustus .

At the Ruhrtriennale in 2007 he directed Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera The Soldiers . Several times he directed at the Vienna State Opera , a. a. in March 2008 at Verdi's La forza del destino .

Until the end of the 2014 festival season, David Pountney was director of the Bregenz Festival . As such, he staged the (scenic) world premiere of the opera The Passenger . Before his appointment as artistic director, he also staged in Bregenz: The Flying Dutchman , Nabucco , Fidelio .

In September 2011, Pountney was director of the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff ( Welsh National Opera ). In this role he commissioned the composer Elena Langer to compose the opera Figaro Gets a Divorce , which premiered in 2016 . He himself also wrote the libretto and directed the world premiere production.

Awards

For his work, David Pountney was awarded the titles of Commander of the British Empire and Chevalier des Arts et Lettres as well as the Silver Medal of Honor of the State of Vorarlberg . In 2014 he was awarded the Golden Schikaneder at the Austrian Music Theater Prize for his staging of Traces of the Lost at the Landestheater Linz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Elisabeth Sobotka succeeds Pountney (...) Pountney's transfer: Numerous confusions . In: vorarlberg.orf.at , July 17, 2012, accessed on August 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Breaking News: Chief Executive and Artistic Director announced. Press release of 1 April 2011 on wno.org.uk (English) ( Memento of 24 December 2012 at the Web archive archive.today ).
  3. ↑ Figaro Gets a Divorce. Performance and network information of the Welsh National Opera , accessed on 28 November 2017th
  4. ↑ Awarding of the 2nd Austrian Music Theater Prize on June 17, 2014 . Retrieved April 4, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Pountney, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pountney, David Willoughby (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British theater director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxford