Walter Sutcliffe
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Walter Sutcliffe is a British opera and theatre director.
His work has been seen in the UK, US, Germany, Austria, The Czech Republic, and Estonia, including productions of Christopher Fry
's The Lady's Not for Burning
, Strindberg
's The Great Highway
and the Austrian premier of Michael Tippett
's The Knot Garden
for the Klangbogen Festival in Vienna. He recently directed the American stage premiere of Leoš Janáček's first opera, Sarka
, for Dicapo Opera
, New York. He is currently developing new productions for Estonian National Opera
, Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Linz Opera and Dicapo Opera.
His production of Benjamin Britten
's opera Owen Wingrave
opened on 24 January 2010 at the Bockenheimer Depot of the Opera Frankfurt am Main.
Sutcliffe's parents are the opera critic Tom Sutcliffe
and the playwright and librettist
Meredith Oakes
.
His work has been seen in the UK, US, Germany, Austria, The Czech Republic, and Estonia, including productions of Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry
Christopher Fry was an English playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.-Early life:...
's The Lady's Not for Burning
The Lady's Not for Burning
The Lady's Not for Burning is a 1948 play by Christopher Fry.A romantic comedy in three acts, set in verse, it is set in the Middle Ages, it reflects the world's "exhaustion and despair" following World War II, with a war-weary soldier who wants to die, and an accused witch who wants to live...
, Strindberg
Strindberg
Strindberg may refer to:People* August Strindberg , Swedish dramatist and painter* Nils Strindberg , Swedish photographer* Anita Strindberg , Swedish actor* Henrik Strindberg , Swedish composerOther...
's The Great Highway
The Great Highway
The Great Highway is the last play by August Strindberg, written in 1909. The original title is Stora landsvägen....
and the Austrian premier of Michael Tippett
Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer.In his long career he produced a large body of work, including five operas, three large-scale choral works, four symphonies, five string quartets, four piano sonatas, concertos and concertante works, song cycles and incidental music...
's The Knot Garden
The Knot Garden
The Knot Garden is the third opera by composer Michael Tippett for which he wrote the original English libretto. The work had its first performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 2 December 1970 conducted by Sir Colin Davis and produced by Sir Peter Hall...
for the Klangbogen Festival in Vienna. He recently directed the American stage premiere of Leoš Janáček's first opera, Sarka
Šárka
The story of Šárka is a character in the so-called "Maidens' War" in Bohemian tradition. It first appeared in the twelfth-century Chronica Boëmorum of Cosmas of Prague, and later in the fourteenth-century Dalimil's Chronicle....
, for Dicapo Opera
Dicapo Opera
Dicapo Opera Theatre was co-founded in 1981 by General Director Michael Capasso and Artistic Director Diane Martindale. Aside from the Metropolitan Opera and New York City Opera, it is the only professional non-profit opera company in New York City presenting an annual season of opera productions,...
, New York. He is currently developing new productions for Estonian National Opera
Estonian National Opera
Estonian National Opera is the national opera company of Estonia. The company is based at the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn.-History:The song and drama society "Estonia" was founded in 1870...
, Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Linz Opera and Dicapo Opera.
His production of Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
's opera Owen Wingrave
Owen Wingrave
Owen Wingrave is an opera for television in two acts with music by Benjamin Britten, his Opus 85, and a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, after a short story by Henry James....
opened on 24 January 2010 at the Bockenheimer Depot of the Opera Frankfurt am Main.
Sutcliffe's parents are the opera critic Tom Sutcliffe
Tom Sutcliffe (opera critic)
Tom Sutcliffe is an English opera critic, author and journalist. He is also a current member of the General Synod of the Church of England, first elected for the Diocese of Southwark in 1990...
and the playwright and librettist
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
Meredith Oakes
Meredith Oakes
Meredith Oakes is an Australian playwright who has lived in London since 1970. She has written plays, adaptations, translations, opera texts and poems, and taught play-writing at Royal Holloway College and for the Arvon Foundation....
.