Michael Hunt

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

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ABOUT MICHAEL HUNT

Current Associate Director to Keith Warner on NEW YEAR at Birmingham Opera In July 2022 I successfully produced Keith Warner’s new production of KING LEAR at The Grange Following my appointment as Artistic Director at Cape Town it proved impossible to secure a work visa after 1 year, so the company and I have had to reluctantly had to separate. COVID has resulted in severe delays in government Recently directed a new Alice in Wonderland for TUZ in Recently directed a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar for Perm Recently directed The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe for Perm Recently directed Picasso at The Playground Theatre, Recently directed The Knitting Pattern Play at Theatre503, Michael is involved in the development of a series of music-theatre productions in Qatar and the region in collaboration with Al Jazeera. These are specially written and designed for the region and performed in classical Michael is currently working on a very large, site-specific production for Terezin, returning a music-theatre piece to the place where in 1944 it was written and rehearsed but never received a premiere as, on the day of the opening performance, the composer and most of the participants were transported to Auschwitz, where they were Michael\'s production of HANSEL UND GRETEL was named as one of the 10 Best Opera Productions in Europe 2013 by the Italian critics received the Perm State Prize for Culture – the only non-Russian to have been awarded this top prize. His further work in Perm included the Russian premiere staging of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOURMichael directed THE TYRANT and Humperdinck’s HANSEL UND GRETEL at the Teatro Communale in Bolzano. THE TYRANT additionally performed at the 2012 OPERADAGEN Festival in Rotterdam. HANSEL UND GRETEL will be re-staged for the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck in 2014. His over 60 opera productions have included work for Las Palmas – TANCREDI; Portland Opera (USA) – LES PECHERS DES PEARLES; Scottish Opera – IOLANTHE and OEDIPUS REX; Opera Ireland – LA TRAVIATA; Opera North – OEDIPUS REX. Michael directed the centenary production of LA BOHEME at the Royal Albert Hall in London.