David McVicar

David McVicar was born in Glasgow and trained as an actor at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He has directed Medea, Don Carlos, Agrippina, Adriana Lecouvreur, Tosca, Norma, Roberto Devereux, Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, Giulio Cesare, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolenaand Il trovatorefor the Metropolitan Opera; Death in Venice, Andrea Chénier, Les Troyens, Adriana Lecouvreur, Aida, Salome, The Marriage of Figaro, Faust, The Magic Flute and Rigoletto for ROH; and Die Entführungaus dem Serail, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Giulio Cesare, Carmen and La bohèmefor Glyndebourne Festival. Other productions include Falstaff (Santa Fe), Death in Venice (Vienna Volksoper), La Calisto, I masnadieri(La Scala), Gloriana (Teatro Real, Madrid), La traviata (Liceu, Barcelona), Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni (Opera Australia), Les Troyens(Vienna State Opera, Milan), La clemenza di Tito (Aix-en-Provence Festival), Tristan und Isolde (Vienna, Tokyo), Macbeth, Wozzeck, Rusalka, Elektra, Billy Budd, Giulio Cesare, Il trovatore, Manon (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Der Ring des Nibelungen, Così fan tutte(Opéra National du Rhin), Medée, Alcina, Tosca, The Rape of Lucretia, The Turn of the Screw, Der Rosenkavalier (ENO), L’incoronazione di Poppea (La Monnaie, Berlin State Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), Il Trittico, Falstaff, Pelléas et Mélisande, The Rake’s Progress, La traviata, Così fan tutte, Madama Butterfly, Der Rosenkavalier, Idomeneo(Scottish Opera), Sweeney Todd (Opera North) and Les contes d’Hoffmann(Salzburg Festival).

He was knighted in the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Honours List and made Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.