Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy (born 17 July 1948 in Zurich) is a Swiss theater and opera director.

Biography

Trained in Paris with the mime artist Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1985 as a director at the Vienna Festival.

Direction

tage Productions

*1971 : "Der Narr und die Nonne" (The Fool and the Nun) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz at Göttingen
*1973 : "Die See" (The Sea) by Edward Bond at the Munich Residenztheater
*1974 : "Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung" (Faith, Love, Hope) by Ödön von Horvath at Hamburg
*1977 : "Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe" by Alfred de Musset at the Schaubühne, Berlin
*1980 : "Happy Days" by Samuel Beckett at Cologne
*1980 : "Yvonne, die Burgunderprinzessin" (Yvonne, the Princess of Burgundy) by Witold Gombrowicz at Cologne
*1982 : "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare at Cologne
*1983 : "Sommer" (Summer) by Edward Bond at Munich
*1984 : "Das weite Land" (The Far Country) by Arthur Schnitzler at the Thtre des Amandiers in Nanterre
*1985 : "Triumph der Liebe" (The Triumph of Love) by Marivaux
*1989 : "Le conte d'hiver by Shakespeare, at Nanterre-Amandier
*1989 : "Die Zeit und das Zimmer" (The Time and the Room) by Botho Strauß, at Berlin (premier)
*1990 : "The Winter's Tale" by Shakespeare, at the Lehniner Palace
*1992 : "Schlußchor" by Botho Strauß at Berlin (premier)
*1993 : "John Gabriel Borkman" by Henrik Ibsen at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris
*1993 : "Das Gleichgewicht" (The Equilibrium) by Botho Strauß, at the Salzburg Festival (premier)
*1994 : "Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten" by Peter Handke
*1999 : "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett, at the Vienna Festival
*2000 : "Drei Mal Leben" by Yasmina Reza, at the Burgtheater in Vienna (premier)
*2002 : "Anatol" by Arthur Schnitzler, at the Burgtheater in Vienna
*2005 : "Die eine und die andere" by Botho Strauß, at Berlin
*2005 : "Viol" by Botho Strauß, after "Titus Andronicus", at Odéon, Atelier Berthier, Paris

Opera Production

*1986 : "Così fan tutte" by Mozart (conducted by Sylvain Cambreling), at Amandier, La Monnaie, Wiener Festwochen
*1989 : "L'incoronazione di Poppea" by Monteverdi, revised Philippe Boesmans, at Amandier, La Monnaie
*1990/1 : "Don Giovanni" by Mozart (condcuted by Claudio Abbado, starring Ruggero Raimondi), at Wiener Festwochen
*1992 : "Salome" by Richard Strauss (conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi, starring Catherine Malfitano and Anja Silja), at the Salzburg Festival, Royal Opera House
*1993 : "Reigen" by Philippe Boesmans (libretto by Luc Bondy, after "La ronde" by Schnitzler) at La Monnaie
*1995 : "Le nozze di Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt), at the Salzburg Festival
*1996 : "Don Carlos" by Giuseppe Verdi (conducted by Antonio Pappano, starring Roberto Alagna, José van Dam, Karita Mattila), at Châtelet, Royal Opera House, Opéra de Lyon, Edinburgh Festival
*1999 : "Wintermärchen" by Philippe Boesmans (libretto by Luc Bondy, after "The Winter's Tale" by Shakespeare), at La Monnaie
*2000 : "Macbeth" by Giuseppe Verdi (conducted Richard Armstrong), at Wiener Festwochen
*2001 : "The Turn of the Screw" by Benjamin Britten (conducted by Daniel Harding), at Festival d'Aix-en-Provence (reprise 2005)
*2003 : "Hercules" by Handel (conducted by William Christie with Les Arts Florissants) at Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Opéra National de Paris, Wiener Festwochen, De Nederlandse Opera
*2005 : "Julie" by Philippe Boesmans (libretto by Luc Bondy, after "Miss Julie" by Strindberg), at La Monnaie, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence
*2005 : "Idomeneo" by Mozart (conducted by Daniel Harding), at Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Paris (2006)

Honors

*Hans Reinhart-Ring 1997
*Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2000, Best Director, "The Seagull"