biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1957– )
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| biography:
| Stage director, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Harvard, became director of the Boston Shakespeare Company (1983–4), and directed the American National Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC (1984–6), where his radical staging of Sophocles' Ajax divided audiences and critics. He is internationally recognized as a daringly innovative director of opera, setting his productions in the cultural landscape of 20th-c America. Later productions include Mathias der Maler (1995), Theodora (1996), and Nixon in China (2000). He is professor of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. |
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