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.
Graham Vick, Director Who Opened Operaâs Doors, Dies at 67
The British director was no stranger to the prestige houses, but his calls to make opera more inclusive and available to everyone eventually found their moment.
Graham Vick in 2000 at the Metropolitan Opera, where he directed a production of “Il Trovatore.” While working at the world’s major opera houses, he also sought to bring opera to a wider audience with his Birmingham Opera.Credit.Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
July 19, 2021, 7:10 p.m. ET
LONDON â Graham Vick, a British opera director who worked at prestigious houses like the Metropolitan Opera and La Scala while also seeking to broaden operaâs appeal by staging works in abandoned rock clubs and former factories and by bringing more diversity to casting, died on Saturday in London. He was 67.
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December 31, 2020 at 9:11 am
Conductor Jane Glover has been made a dame in the 2021 New Year’s Honours for services to music, alongside the Birmingham Opera Company’s founder and artistic director Graham Vick, who has been knighted.
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Glover is one of the UK’s leading conductors and musicologists, having previously held the role of music director of both the London Mozart Players and Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In 2013, she became the third woman ever to conduct at the New York’s Metropolitan Opera, in a production of Mozart’s
The Magic Flute. Earlier this year, she was
female conductors to the stage. As a music professor and educator, she has previously held positions as director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music and visiting professor of opera at the University of Oxford. She has been a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) since the 2003 New Year’s Honours.