David McVicar
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Sir David McVicar (born 1966, Glasgow[1]) is a Scottish opera and theatre director. He attended Netherlee Primary School and Williamwood High School.[citation needed]
He studied as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating in 1989. In 2007, The Independent ranked him among the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.[2] He was the guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs on 5 October 2008.
He was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to opera.[3][4]
Selected productions
- Adriana Lecouvreur: Royal Opera House
- Agrippina: La Monnaie, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, English National Opera
- Aida: Royal Opera House
- Alcina: Bilbao, Oviedo, English National Opera[5]
- Billy Budd: Lyric Opera of Chicago
- La bohème: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- Carmen: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- La clemenza di Tito: English National Opera
- Les contes d'Hoffmann: Salzburg Festival, Vlaamse Opera
- Don Giovanni: La Monnaie
- Faust: La Monnaie
- Fidelio: New Zealand International Arts Festival
- Giulio Cesare: Glyndebourne Festival Opera
- Hamlet: Opera North
- Idomeneo: Vlaamse Opera, Scottish Opera
- L'incoronazione di Poppea: Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Opéra national du Rhin, Copenhagen Opera House
- Macbeth: Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Opera House
- Madama Butterfly: Scottish Opera
- Manon: New Zealand Opera, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Liceu
- A Midsummer Night's Dream: La Monnaie
- Le nozze di Figaro: Royal Opera House
- The Rape of Lucretia: Aldeburgh Festival
- Il re pastore: Opera North
- Rigoletto: Royal Opera House
- Der Rosenkavalier: Opera North, Scottish Opera
- Salome: Royal Opera House
- Semele: Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Opéra national du Rhin
- Sweeney Todd: Opera North
- Tamerlano: Deutsche Oper am Rhein
- Tosca: English National Opera
- Il trovatore: Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera
- Wozzeck: Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Die Zauberflöte: La Monnaie, Royal Opera House
Video recordings
McVicar's productions of Faust, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Rigoletto and Salome at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, his Carmen and much-acclaimed Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, and his Manon at the Liceu are all available on DVD.
References
- ↑ Independent interview, 2001
- ↑ The Independent, (6 May 2007), "The pink list 2007: The IoS annual celebration of the great and the gay"; retrieved 25 June 2007.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60173. p. 1. 16 June 2012.
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- ↑ Profile, telegraph.co.uk; accessed 14 June 2014.
External links
- http://www.mariinsky.ru/print/en/opera/mcvicar Biography of David McVicar
- http://www.positivenation.co.uk/issue90/regulars/artspage/arts_special.htm Interview with Positive Nation
- http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article342211.ece Interview with the Independent
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- Articles with unsourced statements from June 2014
- 1966 births
- Living people
- LGBT entertainers from Scotland
- People from Glasgow
- British opera directors
- Alumni of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
- Scottish theatre directors
- People educated at Williamwood High School
- Knights Bachelor
- LGBT directors
- Gay actors