Keith Warner
Keith Warner | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 6, 1956 London |
| Citizenship | British |
| Occupation(s) | opera director, designer and translator |
Keith Reginald Warner (born 6 December 1956) is a British opera director, designer and translator.[1][2]
Early years
Warner was born in Finchley, North London and then studied English and drama at the University of Bristol from 1975-78.[1] He subsequently worked as an actor, a teacher of drama therapy and a fringe theatre director. He joined English National Opera in 1981, working as revival director, staff director and associate director until 1989. In 1985, he also worked as associate director for Scottish Opera.[2]
Career
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Warner combined the roles of director of productions for New Sussex Opera, artistic director for Nexus Opera and associate artistic director of Opera Omaha.[2]
Warner was associated with the production of The Ring at Covent Garden between 2004 and 2007.[3] In 2005, Warner staged Wagner's Tannhäuser at the Stadttheater Minden, with the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie conducted by Frank Beermann.[4]
In addition, Warner was appointed artistic director of the Royal Danish Opera, taking up the post in July 2011,[5] but resigned after six months, along with conductor and music director Jakub Hrůša, as a result of problems with funding.[6]
In the 2014/15 Season he directed Welsh National Opera's production of Peter Pan at the Royal Opera House and on tour.[7]
In 1999 Warner began work on his first opera, Scoring A Century, commissioned but never performed by Portland Opera.[8] It eventually premiered at in 2010 at Birmingham Conservatoire.[8] In 2019 a revival in London, directed by Warner divided critics, some of whom called it 'pretentious',[9] embarrassing,[10] and 'unwieldy, overlong and stylistically diffuse'.[11]
Other Operas followed: an operetta-like version of Bergmann's Fanny and Alexander and Icarus, which was performed at the 2016 Montepulciano Festival.[12][13]
His theater work also includes La Voix Humaine and Krapp’s Last Tape as a double bill, Old Times, Henry IV, Silverlake, and My Fair Lady. The New York Times listed his 2019 production of Passion in Montepulciano as one of Europe's four best theater productions.[14]
References
- ^ a b Bristol, University of. "Keith Reginald Warner". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
- ^ a b c Adam, Nicky, ed. (1993). Who's Who in British Opera. Aldershot: Scolar Press. pp. 282–3. ISBN 0-859-67894-6.
- ^ Service, Tom (2012-09-26). "Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
- ^ Bohn, Ullrich (24 October 2005). "Wagners "Tannhäuser" in der Provinz". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Keith Warner heads for Royal Danish Opera". Gigmag.co.uk. 24 May 2010. Archived from the original on 20 April 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
- ^ "Warner and Hrusa quit Royal Danish Opera." Gramophone, 24 January 2012
- ^ "Keith Warner DIRECTOR". Royal Opera House.
- ^ a b "A comic opera on politics". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
- ^ Morrison, Richard (2019-09-02). "Scoring a Century review — there's little to arrest the ear here". The Times. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
- ^ Clements, Andrew (2019-09-05). "Scoring a Century review – youth can't animate an unfocused evening". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
- ^ "Scoring a Century review, Peacock Theatre, London, 2019". The Stage. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
- ^ "Seite nicht gefunden". www.theatertexte.de. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
- ^ del Nista, Roberto (November 2016). Opera Magazine: 1416.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "The Best (and Worst) Theater in Europe in 2019". The New York Times. 2019-12-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-05-21.