(ANSA) - MILAN, 17 JUL - Graham Vick, a visionary opera director who worked for the major theaters in the world, died in London.
He would have turned 68 on December 30th and for some time had health problems, so much so that he had to give up directing the Masked Ball which will open the Verdi Festival in Parma which will be dedicated to him.
The news was given by the Teatro Regio of the Emilian city to which the death was communicated by the people closest to him, the choreographer Ron Howell and his manager.
In 1987 Vick founded the Birmingham Opera Company, of which he has been artistic director until now but over the years he has also led international events such as the Glyndebourne. His was the Falstaff which reopened after the restoration in 1992 the Royal Opera House in London and many titles that have made the history of contemporary opera direction: from the Ring to the Massimo of Palermo, to the Stiffelio with the artists wandering among the audience standing at the Farnese theater in Parma, and many titles at La Scala, at the Met, in New York, at the Fenice. A job accomplished to attract new audiences with the conviction that "there is no need to be educated to be touched, moved and excited by the work", a world that is now moved by its disappearance. (HANDLE).