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Jonathan Moore
The successful actor, writer and director Jonathan Moore has received a number of
prestigious awards for his opera direction.
He collaborated closely with the composer Mark Anthony Turnage on GREEK, an
opera based on the Steven Berkoff play, as both co-librettist and director. GREEK
received its première at the 1988 Münchener Biennale and subsequently transferred to
the Edinburgh International Festival and in 1990 to English National Opera at the
London Coliseum. Jonathan Moore received the BMW Prize at the Münchener
Biennale for GREEK and the production was subsequently nominated for an Olivier
Award on its transfer to London.
Following the success of these stage productions Jonathan Moore filmed GREEK for
BBC TV; the film received the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society award for Best
TV film, and has recently been awarded the Classical Music Special Category prize in
the Second International Visual Music Awards at Midem in Cannes.
Jonathan Moore returned to the Münchener Biennale in 1990 to stage the première of
Hans Jürgen von Bose’s 63 DREAM PALACE and once again received the BMW
Award for Best Director at that year’s festival. During the 1994 Münchener Biennale,
Jonathan Moore won yet another award for his production of the theatre work VIER
HIMMELS RICHTUNGEN, with music by Tobias Kästle.
In July 1993 Jonathan Moore once again received unanimous acclaim for his direction
of Michael Berkeley’s first opera BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP which was cocommissioned by Opera North, BBC TV and the Cheltenham International Festival
where it received its première. The following season he directed THE CASK OF
AMONTILLADO a new opera by Stewart Copeland premièred at Holders Easter
Season in Barbados.
Opera engagements have included the world première production of Bernd Franke’s
MOTTKE THE THIEF in 1998 for Oper Bonn, the UK première of Schnittke’s LIFE
WITH AN IDIOT in a co-production for English National Opera and Scottish Opera in
1995; Ian McQueen’s EAST AND WEST, for which he was also co-librettist, for the
1995 Almeida Opera Festival; Henze’s MARATONA DI DANZA a dance theatre piece
for the Basler Ballett in 1996; INES DE CASTRO by James Macmillan for Scottish
Opera and premièred at the 1996 Edinburgh International Festival - it was revived and
filmed for TV in 1999 and further revived in 2001; Henze’s ELEGY FOR YOUNG
LOVERS at La Fenice in 1998; the world premières of Jan Müller-Wieland’s DIE
VERSICHERUNG for the Staatstheater Darmstadt in 1999 and in 2000 Michael
Nyman’s FACING GOYA in Santiago de Compostella. At the 2002 Feldkirchen Festival
Jonathan Moore directed a new music theatre piece MUSIC TO DIE FOR with Daniel
Hope, Ravi Shankar and Uri Caine with a text by Christopher Hope.
In 2004 he returned to Scottish Opera for a new production of DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE.
He directed the new musical SEX, CHIPS, ROCK AND ROLL at the Royal Exchange,
Manchester in Summer 2005 and directed THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY there in
2008. Recent productions include FAITH AND COLD READING for Live Theatre,
Newcastle, and the world premiere of TELL TALE HEART by Stewart Copeland at the
Linbury Theatre of the Royal Opera House.
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