David Pountney topic

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