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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER PRODUCTION TEAM BIOGRAPHY DAVID POUNTNEY, Director David Pountney made his San Francisco Opera directing debut in 1976 with Vec Makropulos and returned in 2007 to direct Macbeth; his production of Satyagraha was mounted by the Company in 1989. He became internationally known through his production of Katya Kabanova at the 1972 Wexford Festival. Between 1975 and 1980, he was director of productions for Scottish Opera. In 1977 he directed the world premiere of David Blakeʼs Toussaint for English National Opera (ENO) and went on to become ENOʼs director of productions in 1980, directing over 20 operas. Pountney has directed many world premieres, including three by Peter Maxwell Davies for which he also wrote the libretto, and has translated operas into English from Russian, Czech, German and Italian. As a freelance director from 1992 he worked regularly in Zurich, at Vienna State Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, as well as opera houses in America and Japan, and in the UK has a long-standing association with Opera North. He received a Janáček medal for his Janáček cycle in Wales and Scotland, a Martinů medal for his productions of Julietta and Greek Passion (Opera North and Bregenz Festival), and his productions have twice won Olivier awards. Recent engagements include Prince Igor, The Passenger (Houston and New York); Kommilitonen, his third opera written in collaboration with Peter Maxwell Davies (Royal Academy of Music and US premiere at the Juilliard School, New York); a new Philip Glass opera, Spüren der Verirrten, for the opening of a new opera house in Linz which won the Schickaneder Prize for best opera production in 2013, and Die Zauberflöte for the lake stage in Bregenz, where he has been intendant since 2003. Since 2011 he has been chief executive and artistic director of Welsh National Opera, where he has directed Bergʼs Lulu, Rossiniʼs Guillaume Tell and Mosè in Egitto. He is a CBE, a Chevalier in the French Ordre des Arts et Lettres, has the Cavalierʼs Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland and was awarded the Ehrenkreuz des Bundes Osterreich in 2014. SAN FRANCISCO OPERA Education Materials THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER .

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