David McVicar

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British opera director

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Sir David McVicar (born 1966) is a Scottish opera and theatre director.

Biography

McVicar was born in Glasgow in 1966. 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. He was the guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs on 5 October 2008.

He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to opera.

Selected productions

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.

Of his thirteen productions for the Metropolitan Opera, all are available for streaming in HD video at Met Opera on Demand:

References

References

  1. Kimberley, Nick. (8 September 2001). "Opera's hot - and this man is the reason why". The Independent.
  2. Cooper, Michael. (18 March 2016). "Can David McVicar Bring Peace to the Opera Wars?". New York Times.
  3. ''The Independent'', (6 May 2007), [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1153578.ece "The pink list 2007: The IoS annual celebration of the great and the gay"] {{webarchive. link. (7 January 2008 ; retrieved 25 June 2007.)
  4. {{London Gazette. (16 June 2012)
  5. (15 June 2012). "Kenneth Branagh knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours". BBC News.
  6. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924151313/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4719163/Its-the-singing-that-sends-ENOs-fairy-tale-soaring.html Profile], telegraph.co.uk; accessed 14 June 2014.

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