David Pountney

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David Pountney (born 10 September 1947) is a British theater and opera director. He has a reputation for staging rarely-performed operas.

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[edit] Biography

Pountney was born in Oxford and educated at St John's College, Cambridge. From 1975 to 1980, he was the Director of Productions at Scottish Opera, and, from 1982 to 1993, Director of Productions at English National Opera, where he directed over twenty operas. From 1993 to 2004, he worked as a free-lance director at the Zurich Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and other houses in America, Japan, and the United Kingdom. He has also directed at the Wexford Festival, De Nederlandse Opera and Opera Australia. In December 2003 he became the Intendant of the Bregenz Festival.

He has worked as a librettist for Sir Peter Maxwell Davies on The Doctor of Myddfai and Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, and has translated opera librettos into English from Russian, Czech, German, and Italian.

Pountney lives in France.

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Pountney is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (a French civilian honor), and a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire).

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