The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where the maestro had served as artistic director from 1985 until 1991, said Bartoletti died in a Florence hospital after a long illness. Rome - Bruno Bartoletti, an orchestra conductor who was associated with the Lyric Opera of Chicago for a half-century, and who championed modern opera as well as classic works, died on Sunday in his native Tuscany, a day before his 87th birthday. Longtime Lyric Opera Artistic Leader Dies In Florence His 1976 staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth was considered revolutionary.
Later on he moved to Milan’s Piccolo Teatro, and in the ’80s became the director of the Théâtre des Amandiers in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre. In the mid-’60s, he became the director of a theater in Sartrouville, northwest of Paris, where he staged plays with a strong left-wing bent.
Born on November 2, 1944, in Lézigné, in France’s Maine-et-Loire department, and raised in Paris, Patrice Chéreau began directing plays in his late teens. Patrice Chéreau dead at 68: French director best known for ‘ Queen Margot,’ gay-related dramas (photo: Patrice Chéreau Isabelle Adjani in ‘ Queen Margot’) Screenwriter, sometime actor, and stage, opera, and film director Patrice Chéreau, whose clinically cool - some might say sterile - films were arthouse favorites in some quarters, has died of lung cancer in Paris. Read More: Terry Gilliam: My Life In Eight Movies Terry Gilliam is among this elite group,įrench Director Known for His Movies with Adjani and Huppert, and for Several Gay-Related Dramas Has Died It may seem unusual for a renowned film director to suddenly switch mediums and helm an opera, but such a thing has happened a number of times before: for example, Woody Allen has directed Puccini’s “ Gianni Schicchi” for the Los Angeles Opera legendary Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has helmed Mozart’s “ Cosi Fan Tutte” for the Aix-en-Provence Festival Julie Taymor has directed Mozart's " The Magic Flute" for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as well as the Broadway musical adaptations of " The Lion King" and "Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark" Roman Polanski has helmed Verdi's “ Rigoletto” for the Bavarian State Opera William Friedkin has directed a version of Alban Berg’s “ Wozzeck” and Werner Herzog has helmed a number of Wagner productions including “Doktor Faust,” “The Flying Dutchman” and “Parsifal”.
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