Brian Fitzgerald

Director

Background

MA, Sydney University. Studied theatre and film production in Britain and Canada. Lectured in theatre and drama at Sydney College of Advanced Education

OA repertoire

Rehearsed Coronation of Poppea, Giulio Cesare, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Peter Grimes, Death in Venice, The Rake’s Progress, Voss, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Così fan tutte, Marriage of Figaro. Directed Simon Boccanegra, Otello, Der Rosenkavalier. Directed National Opera Workshop programs – Antigone, The Heiress, Gesualdo, Eleanor of Aqutaine, Dracula, Poe. Since 1984 he has supervised the Company’s surtitles program and written the translations

Other Companies

Directed Marriage of Figaro (WAO); The Magic Flute (OQ); Curlew River (Adelaide Festival); Cendrillon, Acis and Galatea, Eugene Onegin, La rondine, Iphigénie en Tauride, L’enfant et les sortilèges, Les mamelles de Tirésias, A Dinner Engagement (Sydney Conservatorium); surtitles for The Ring (SOSA) and Royal Opera, Covent Garden; directed The Coronation of Poppea (Theatre of the Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna); Così fan tutte (SOSA)