David McVicar

Sir David McVicar (born 1966 in Glasgow ) is a Scottish opera director.

Life and work

McVicar studied acting at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and completed his studies in 1989. He contributes regularly to the Glyndebourne Festival, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Teatro Liceu in Barcelona and the La Monnaie in Brussels. In 2009 he made ​​his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, from 2010 to 2012, he directed the entire Ring cycle in Strasbourg. At the Metropolitan Opera, he directed the beginning of 2013 the opera Maria Stuarda by Gaetano Donizetti. This was followed in the same year at the Vienna State Opera 's production of Tristan and Isolde.

McVicar stage work includes a wide range, he has staged operas by Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi, Puccini and Benjamin Britten. His style can be described as naturalistic.

In 2012 he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II as part of their Birthday Honours to the peerage as a Knight Bachelor.