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Early life [ edit ]
Curran was born in Maryhill , Glasgow. At the age of five, he was rehoused with his family to Easterhouse . He played clarinet in the Glasgow Schools Orchestra, and saw his first opera (Scottish Opera 's production of Wozzeck
The following year, his parents discovered that he was gay and threw him out.[4] ballet dancer at the London Studio Centre and the Central School of Ballet before studying with Sulamith Messerer . He worked for a time as an usher at English National Opera during the period when Lord Harewood , Mark Elder and David Pountney formed the artistic management of the company.
Curran spent two years at the ballet school of the Finnish National Opera and then three years as a professional dancer with Scottish Ballet and in Germany. A hip injury terminated his ballet career, and he worked as an interpreter and stage manager before, at the age of twenty-seven, entering the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney to study directing.
Career in opera [ edit ]
After graduating, Curran worked for two years as an assistant to Baz Luhrmann on his production of Benjamin Britten 's A Midsummer Night's Dream Edinburgh International Festival in 1994. As well as taking over responsibility for reviving this production, he assisted on other productions and worked as an interpreter. In the latter capacity, he encountered Valery Gergiev when the Kirov Opera visited Edinburgh in 1995, and was engaged to restage Prince Igor Royal Albert Hall . In the same year, he made his debut as an independent freelance opera director with an open-air Magic Flute
Curran's subsequent opera productions have included:
Billy Budd Santa Fe Opera , 2008
La bohème
La Cenerentola Teatro di San Carlo , Naples, 2003
Daphne
Death in Venice Garsington Opera , 2015
Eva Josef Bohuslav Foerster ), Wexford Festival Opera , 2004
La donna del lago
Faramondo Göttingen International Handel Festival (2014)[5] [6]
La finta giardiniera
Die Frau ohne Schatten Lyric Opera of Chicago , 2007
I gioielli della Madonna University College Opera , 2000
Hamlet Vivienne Westwood , for the Clerkenwell Music Series
Königskinder
Kullervo Aulis Sallinen ), University College Opera , 2001 (British premiere)
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Canadian Opera Company , Toronto, 2007
I Lombardi
Lucia di Lammermoor Halle , 2006
A Midsummer Night's Dream (conducted by Steuart Bedford and designed by Curran), Naples, 2000
Mirandolina Bohuslav Martinů ), Wexford, 2002
Otello Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi , Trieste , 2001
Otello , Welsh National Opera , 2008
Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes , Santa Fe, with Anthony Dean Griffey and Christine Brewer , 2005
Schwanda the Bagpiper Augsburg , 2007
The Rape of Lucretia Central City Opera , near Denver, 2008
The Tales of Hoffmann
Tannhäuser La Scala , Milan, 2005
Tosca Mariinsky Theatre , Saint Petersburg, 2007
Tosca , Toronto, 2007
Il trovatore Teatro Communale , Bologna, 2005
The Tsar's Bride The Royal Opera , Covent Garden , 2011
Turandot , Teatro Petruzzelli , Bari , 2023
Curran has also directed the musicals Man of La Mancha A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Covent Garden Festival .
Forthcoming productions include Lulu Il trovatore for Bilbao , I puritani Peter Grimes in Oslo and at Washington National Opera .[needs update
References [ edit ]
Notes
^ Ighanian, Catherine Gonsholt; Jørstad, Atle; Bjørn, Camilla (6 June 2011). "Operasjefen slutter" (in Norwegian). vg.no . Retrieved 6 June 2011 .
^ CCO interview [permanent dead link
^ Interview in Gay City Times Archived 21 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Faramondo, Deutsches Theater, Göttingen, Germany" – review by George Loomis, Financial Times , 9 June 2014
^ Faramondo , production detailsArchived 26 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Brisbane Baroque 2015
Sources
Clark, Andrew (July 2007). "Paul Curran (People: 337)". Opera . 58 7 ): 772–80. ISSN 0030-3526 .
Wexford Festival Opera, programme books for 2002 and 2004
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