Graham Vick, director who opened opera s doors, dies at 67
Graham Vick at the Metropolitan Opera, where he directed a production of Il Trovatore, in New York on Dec. 4, 2000. Vick, a British opera director who worked at prestigious houses like the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala while also seeking to broaden operas appeal by staging works in abandoned rock clubs and former factories and by bringing more diversity to casting, died of complications of COVID-19 on Saturday, July 17, 2021, in London. He was 67. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.
by Alex Marshall
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Graham Vick, a British opera director who worked at prestigious houses such as the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City and La Scala in Milan while also seeking to broaden operas appeal by staging works in abandoned rock clubs and former factories and by bringing more diversity to casting, died Saturday in London. He was 67.
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