David Pountney, director

Chorus!

Previous Engagements at HGO:

• Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman (1984)

Engagements:

• Zimmermann’s Die Soldaten for the Ruhr Festival
• Chabrier’s L'étoile in Zurich
• Musorgsky’s Khovanshchina for Welsh National Opera
• Mason’s Playing Away for the Bregenz Festival.  
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• produced the world première of David Blake's Toussaint in 1977 at English National Opera and later became Director of Productions in 1980, directing more than twenty operas
• Janácek cycle in collaboration with Welsh National Opera of Janácek’s Jenufa, House of the Dead, The Makropulos Case, Kát’a Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen

Awards/Accolades/Recordings:

• received a Janácek medal for his Janácek cycle in Wales and Scotland, and a Martinu medal for his productions of Julietta and Greek Passion at Opera North and the Bregenz Festival

Did You Know?

• Between 1975 and 1980 he was Director of Production for Scottish Opera
• He has directed more than ten world premieres, including two by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies for which he also wrote the libretto. He has also translated many operas into English from Russian, Czech, German and Italian.
• He has worked regularly at Zürich Opera, Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera in Munich and throughout the U.S. and Japan