Name Tim Albery Grandparents Bronson Albery Movies Billy Budd, Peter Grimes | Parents Donald Albery Role Stage Director | |
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Nominations Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera Similar People Philip Langridge, Thomas Allen, Fiona Shaw, Richard Van Allan | ||
Great-grandparents James Albery, Mary Moore | ||
Behind the music tim albery and harry bicket on la finta giardiniera
Tim Bronson Reginald Albery (born 20 May 1952) is an English stage director, best known for his productions of opera.
Contents
- Behind the music tim albery and harry bicket on la finta giardiniera
- Director tim albery on the challenges of staging grimes on the beach
- Life and career
- References
Director tim albery on the challenges of staging grimes on the beach
Life and career
Albery was born in Harpenden, the son of the impresario Donald Albery and grandson of the producer Sir Bronson Albery. After directing drama in the British provinces, he directed his first operatic production, Britten's The Turn of the Screw for a music festival at Batignano, Italy in 1983. For Opera North, Albery directed operas by Tippett, Mozart and most notably Berlioz: his production of Les Troyens is described by The New Grove Dictionary of Opera as "triumphant".
For the English National Opera (ENO), Albery directed Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict (1990) and Britten’s Billy Budd (1988) and Peter Grimes (1991). Together with his fellow directors, Richard Jones, Jude Kelly, Phyllida Lloyd, Deborah Warner and Francesca Zambello, Albery publicly supported ENO's general director Nicholas Payne in his dispute with the ENO's chairman Martin Smith over avant garde productions. They wrote, "The aim must be to create a new audience that does not see opera as a middle class trophy art form: an audience that Payne was beginning to attract to the Coliseum."
For Scottish Opera, Albery directed Wagner's Ring cycle between 1999 and 2003, and Mozart's Don Giovanni in 2006.
Grove's Dictionary describes Albery's style as "a modern visual and dramatic language that combined stillness, taut economy, intense feeling for states of psychological and poetic complexity, and deep musical responsiveness" creating "a powerful impression of musico-dramatic revelation."