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Francesca Zambello Biography (1956-)

Born August 24, 1956, in New York, NY. Addresses: Agent: InternationalCreative Management, 40 West 57th St., 16th Floor, New York, NY 10019.; Manager: Columbia Artists, 165 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Director

Birth Details

August 24, 1956

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Director
• Stage manager, Daughters, Interart Theatre, New York City, 1978
• (With Jeffrey Shandler and Bernadette Yeager) Stage manager, Antony and Cleopatra, Interart Theatre, New York City, 1979
• Beatrice di Tenda, La Fenice, 1987
• (With Jean-Pierre Ponnelle) L'occasione fa il ladro, Pesaro, 1987,then La Scala, 1989
• Gli orazi ed i curiazi, Rome, 1988
• The Devil and Kate, Wexford, Ireland, 1988
• Bianca e Falliero, Dade County Auditorium, Miami, FL, 1988
• Mario and the Magician, Skylight Music Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, 1989
• Der Templer und die Judin, Wexford, 1989
• War and Peace, Seattle, WA, 1990
• La traviata, Milwaukee, 1990
• The Devil and Kate, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 1990
• Cavalleria rusticana, Brown Theatre, Houston, TX, 1991
• Oedipus, Sante Fe Opera, Sante Fe, NM, 1991
• Les troyens, Los Angeles, 1991
• Turandot, Bolshoi Opera, Moscow, 1991
• L'assedio di Calais, Wexford, 1992
• Benvenuto Cellini, Geneva, Switzerland, 1992
• The Vanishing Bridegroom, Loretto-Hilton Theatre, St. Louis, 1992
• The Sorrows of Young Werther, Santa Fe Opera, 1992
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NewYork City, 1992-1993
• Romulus Hunt, John Jay Theatre, New York City, 1993
• Orphee, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, then Boston, MA, 1993
• The Midsummer Marriage, New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1993
• Street Scene, Houston Grand Opera, Houston, TX, 1994
• Billy Budd, Geneva, 1994
• Jenufa, Dallas, TX, 1994
• Tannhauser, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1995
• Khovanschina (also known as The Khovansky Affair), EnglishNational Opera, Coliseum, London, 1995
• The Story of Blond Eckbert, Sante Fe Opera, 1995
• Billy Budd, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 1995
• Modern Painters, Santa Fe Opera, 1995
• Arianna, Covent Garden, London, 1995
• Billy Budd, Bastille Opera, London, 1996
• Florencia en el Amazonas, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles,then Houston Grand Opera, 1997
• Iphigenie en Tauride, Glimmerglass Opera, Alice Busch Opera Theatre, Cooperstown, NY, 1997
• Die Meistersinger, Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen, 1997
• Tristan und Isolde, Seattle Opera, Seattle, 1998
• Boris Godunov, English National Opera, 1998
• Emmeline, Santa Fe, then New York City Opera, New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1998
• Madama Butterfly, Houston Grand Opera, 1998
• Billy Budd, Houston Grand Opera, 1998
• Dialogues des Carmelites, Paris Opera, 1999
• Otello, 1999-2000
• Napoleon, Shaftesbury Theatre, London, 2000
• Luisa Miller, San Francisco Opera, 2000
• Queen of Spades, Royal Opera, 2001
• Don Giovanni, Royal Opera House, 2002
• Of Mice and Men, Houston Grand Opera, 2002
• La vestale, English National Opera, 2002
• Also directed La nozze di Figaro, Metropolitan Opera; War and Peace, Opera Bastille, Paris; Napoleon, Disney, London; Dialogues des Carmelites, Garnier and Santa Fe Opera.
• Television Work
• Specials
• Stage director, La boheme, Arts & Entertainment, 1989
• Stage director, La traviata, 1997
• Stage director and director, Emmeline, PBS, 1997

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Time, August 3, 1998, p. 72