Luc Bondy

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Luc Bondy
File:Oliver Mark - Luc Bondy, Berlin 2005.jpg
2006 portrait by Oliver Mark
Born (1948-07-17)17 July 1948
Zurich, Switzerland
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Zurich[1][2][3]
Nationality Swiss
Occupation Theatre and film director, screenwriter
Years active 1970–2015

Luc Bondy (17 July 1948 – 28 November 2015) was a Swiss theatre and film director.

Life and career

Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre.[4] In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1985 as a director at the Vienna Festival.

He was the director of the most recent version of Tosca, by Puccini, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Both the opera, as well as the director, were greeted by loud boos on opening night, 21 September 2009.[5] The reception was generally negative.[6][7][8] James Levine, the music director at the Metropolitan Opera likened the production to a 'Hitchcock movie' and the cultural critic for the New York Times, Charles McGrath, felt that the new production was a part of Gelb's mission to transform the Met by emphasizing theatricality.[9]

In an interview after the premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's opera Charlotte Salomon, Bondy was asked whether his being Jewish had anything to do with his having directed the production. "So I said to her this is a production about a Jewish artist...the subject is the story of Charlotte Salomon" said Bondy, who then walked out on the interviewer.[10]

He died on 28 November 2015 in Zurich.[1][2][3]

Direction

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Stage productions

Opera productions

Honors

References

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  10. Michael Roddy, "Holocaust victim, artist Charlotte Salomon's life premieres as opera, Reuters (UK edition), July 29, 2014.
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