Evans sits down with Director Stephen Lawless - director of Cincinnati Opera’s performance of “The Marriage of Figaro” – to discuss how Stephen got his start, his directing career, the amazing people he has worked with and all the wonderful experiences he has had in the directorial profession. Stephen’s advice to young directors trying to make a name for themselves? Find out what your directorial voice is, what you want to see, and what you like seeing.
Show Notes:
Stephen grew up in the town of Warrington, England.
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon District, in the county of Warwickshire, England.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Sir Trevor Nunn is an English theatre director. Nunn has been the Artistic Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
Richard II is a history play by William Shakespeare.
John Barton was a British theatre director and (with Peter Hall) a co-founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Twelfth Night is a comedy by William Shakespeare.
Dame Judi Dench is an English actress.
John Copley is a British theatre and opera producer and director.
The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London.
Covent Garden is a district in London, on the eastern fringes of the West End.
The London Opera Centre, a school for the training of opera singers and other opera professionals, existed in England between 1963 and 1977.Glineborn
Benjamin Britten was an English composer, conductor and pianist.
Sir Peter Pears was an English tenor. His career was closely associated with the composer Benjamin Britten, his personal and professional partner for nearly forty years.
Joan Cross was an English soprano, closely associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.
Aldborough is a village in the civil parish of Boroughbridge in the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.
La bohème is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini.
Paul Bunyan is an operetta in two acts and a prologue composed by Benjamin Britten to a libretto by W. H. Auden, designed for performance by semi-professional groups.
Malcolm Fraser was an opera director.
The Magic Flute is an opera by Mozart.
Scottish Opera is the national opera company of Scotland.
Sir David Pountney is a British and Polish theatre and opera director and librettist internationally known for his productions of rarely performed operas and new productions of classic works.
“Four Sea Interludes” are from the opera Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
Peter Hemmings was an English opera administrator, impresario and singer.
John Cox is an English opera director.
The Marriage of Figaro is an opera buffa (comic opera) composed in 1786 by Mozart.
Così fan tutte an opera by Mozart.
Wozzeck is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg.
Don Giovanni is an opera by Mozart.
Glyndebourne is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera.
Falstaff is a comic opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi.
Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera by Richard Strauss.
Un ballo in maschera is an opera by Verdi.
English Touring Opera (ETO) is an opera company in the United Kingdom founded in 1979 under the name Opera 80 by the then-existing Arts Council of Great Britain.
The Barber of Seville is an opera by Gioachino Rossini
Sir Thomas Allen is an English operatic baritone.
Dame Janet Baker is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer.
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
Serenade to Music is a work by Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Danielle de Niese is an Australian-American lyric soprano.
Jules Massenet was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently staged are Manon (1884) and Werther (1892).
Sir Roger Norrington is a British conductor. He is the son of Sir Arthur Norrington and his brother is Humphrey Thomas Norrington.
Elijah Moshinsky is an Australian opera director, theatre director and television director who has worked at the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal National Theatre, BBC Television and numerous other venues.
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is the oldest conservatoire in the UK.
The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.
Valery Gergiev is a Soviet and Russian conductor and opera company director of Ossetian origin.
Der Rosenkavalier is a comic opera by Richard Strauss
Carol Vaness is an American lirico-spinto soprano.
Count Almaviva is a character in the Marriage of Figaro
Theresa May is a British politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party.
Don Carlos is a grand opera composed by Verdi.
Simon Boccanegra is an opera by Verdi.
Madame Butterfly is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.
Der Freischütz is a German opera with spoken dialogue by Carl Maria von Weber.
Washington Irving was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.
Glenn Platt is Cincinnati Opera’s Director of Production
Giorgio Strehler was an Italian opera and theatre director.
Killing Eve is a British spy thriller television series, produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America.
Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan.
The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is the second-oldest zoo in the United States.
Amy Winehouse was an English singer and songwriter.
René Jacobs is a Belgian musician. He came to fame as a countertenor but in recent years has become renowned as a conductor of Baroque and early Classical opera.
Carmen is an opera by French composer Georges Bizet.
Santa Fe Opera (SFO) is an American opera company.
Lorenzo Da Ponte was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest.