Luc Bondy

Luc Bondy 17 July 1948 28 November 2015 was a Swiss theatre and film director Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher 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 He directed a staging of Tosca by Puccini at the Metropolitan Opera in New York Both the opera as well as the director were greeted by loud boos on opening night 21 September 2009 The reception was generally negative James Levine the music director at the Metropolitan Opera likened the production to a Hitchcock movie and the cultural critic for the New York Times Charles McGrath felt that the new production was a part of Gelbs mission to transform the Met by emphasizing theatricality In an interview after the premiere of MarcAndré Dalbavies opera Charlotte Salomon Bondy was asked whether his being Jewish had anything to do with his having directed the production So I said to her this is a production about a Jewish artistthe subject is the story of Charlotte Salomon said Bondy who then walked out on the interviewer He died on 28 November 2015 in Zurich Description above from the Wikipedia article Luc Bondy licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia