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Informationen zum Autor Robert was born in London and has written and directed plays, opera, television and film. In 2009 he directed La Voix Humaine to great acclaim in Stockholm. Robert directed Top Girls by Caryl Churchill for the English Theatre, Berlin, and worked with company again on a stage reading of Cheech or The Chrysler Guys Are In Town by Francois Letourneau. He was invited to New Zealand Opera to direct Madama Butterfly and to Banff, Canada to direct the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s To Be Sung. Robert directed The Rake’s Progress, Carmen, Fidelio and Macbeth for English Touring Opera, for whom Robert was Director of Productions from 1997-2001. He directed an award-winning Powder Her Face for Ystad Opera Festival in Sweden, Handel’s Radamisto and Lothario for the Royal College of Music, The Tales of Hoffman, Les Dialogues Des Carmelites and Dvorak’s The Cunning Peasant for Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the 1999 National Opera Studio’s London Showcase. He was co-director on the BBC2 television series of Marscher’s The Vampire which won the Prix Italia. He also directed Hamlet and Mary Rose by J.M. Barrieat Theatre Space, Covent Garden andchoreographed Les Noces at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Recent projects include a film/performance/installation collaboration with the artist Victor Burgin for the London Symphony Orchestra’s Centre at St Luke’s, Old Street and the hugely successful devised play with music, Fair! In Rayleigh High Security Women’s Prison for the National Youth Theatre. In 2010 Robert directed Purity and Desire and a new play The Bench by punk legend Bertie Marshall at The Drill Hall, London. Robert was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1995 and the Japanese Government’s cultural study award in 1997. Mid-Wales Opera won the Prudential Award for his production of Carmen. www.robertchevara.com. Kfir is a writer/director whose first professional short film, It’s Not Unusual, starring Meera Syal, met with great international acclaim and won a BAFTA for Best Short Film. His extensive work as a theatre director includes a collaboration with the choreographer Amir Hosseinpour at the Almeida Theatre - Is That All There Is? - featuring Liliane Montevecchi, which later transferred to New York’s La Mama Theatre and won a New York Critics Award. Other theatre work includes Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale with Frances de la Tour and Jonathan Lunn, Fantaisie Nocturne (Angharad Rees, Turtle Key), The Snow Queen (QEH), Berio’s Recital 1 featuring Teresa Cahill, and the European premiere of Shimmer by John O’Keefe at the Mermaid Theatre. Kfir also directed Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in a new version by Zinnie Harrisat the Donmar Warehouse (2010 Olivier Awards Best Actress nomination - Gillian Anderson). Other work includes a screenplay of The Houdini Girl, based on the novel by Martyn Bedford, and an adaptation of Mark Behr’s novel The Smell of Apples. Klappentext Minnie runs a dilapidated, back-street Soho internet cafe, populated by Eastern European immigrants and targeted by the Albanian underworld. Minnie, trusting and innocent, falls for gang leader 'Vik' Johnson, who is intent on stealing from the villains in her cafe, and from her. When the crooks catch up with Vik, he is moments from execution, before Minnie is forced to play a hand of poker for his life.Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (West End Girl) had gorgeous melodies, great passion and humour. Andrew Lloyd-Webber thought so. He was inspired by Fanciulla to create one of the most famous melodies in The Phantom of the Opera . Fanciulla has thrilling scenes and rich characters, and as in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly , Puccini shows us youthful love and burning desire in a joyous evening of drama and delight. This production is directed by Robert Chevara (Artistic Director, English Touring Opera, 1997-2001) in his own new version co-written with Kfir Yefet (recently directed Gillian Anderson in...
