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Brian Large

August 19, 2023

Brian Large (born 16 February 1939 in London, England) is a television director and author. He is among the world's foremost TV directors specializing in opera and classical music.

Biography

Studies

Large studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1991.[1] After graduating from the University of London with doctorates in both music and philosophy, he did postgraduate work in Vienna and Prague. His interest in Czech and Slavic opera resulted in the publication of two pioneering volumes on the music of Bedřich Smetana and Bohuslav Martinů.

BBC 1965–1980

He joined BBC2 television as a director with responsibility for music and opera at its inception in 1965. He was appointed chief opera producer in 1970. During this period he televised:

In 1966 the BBC commissioned an opera for television from Benjamin Britten. In August 1970 Owen Wingrave, op.85 (libretto: Britten/Piper, based on a short story by Henry James) was completed. He directed and televised the world premiere conducted by the composer in November 1970. It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 16 May 1971.[2]

During his time at the Corporation Large directed for Britain's Royal Opera:

  • Tosca (Jurinac)
  • Aida (Jones, Bumbry, Craig; Downes) and
  • Otello (Cossutto, Cappuccilli; Downes).

He directed numerous programmes by Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan from The Royal Ballet, including:

He worked with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. At the BBC he also directed numerous live telecasts of concerts with:

International networks and opera companies

Wolfgang Wagner in 1974 invited Large to Bayreuth to collaborate on documenting the works of his grandfather Richard Wagner on television:

and, perhaps, one of the most acclaimed programs in the history of classical music on television:

For the latter the Royal Television Society named him "Best Television Director" in 1981.

Since leaving the BBC in 1980, Large has continued to direct telecasts for the Royal Opera, including:

From the Glyndebourne Festival he has televised The Makropulos Case (Silia; Sir Andrew Davis) and Le comte Ory (Massis; Sir Andrew Davis).

Following the internationally televised Royal Opera House Gala for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977, invitations came to direct performing arts programs for numerous TV networks and opera companies, including:

Large directed for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra its annual New Year's Concert from 1989 to 1993; and again from 1997 to 2009; and in 2011. In Germany he has directed for ZDF from Deutsche Oper Berlin and two concerts at the Dresdner Frauenkirche with Angela Gheorghiu and Cecilia Bartoli. Brian Large televised for Bayerischer Rundfunk from Bayerische Staatsoper, Prinzregententheater and Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz and two special concerts from the Vatican honoring Pope Benedict XVI (Jansons 27 October 2007 ; Thielemann)[4] as well as the Opening Concert of the 2006 World Cup Games (Domingo, Damrau, Lang Lang; Jansons, Mehta, Thielemann).

He directed opera productions from La Scala among others Nabucco (Dimitrova, Bruson ; Muti) and from the Arena di Verona Madame Butterfly (Kabaivanska) and Tosca (Marton, Aragall). From the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Large has televised opera under the musical direction of Valery Gergiev including Pique Dame and the original "St. Petersburg" version of La forza del destino as well as ballet: Jewels (ballet) and Don Quixote. At the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris he directed The Cunning Little Vixen (Mackerras, Hytner); Alceste (von Otter; Gardiner) and Orphée et Eurydice (Kožená, Gardiner)[5]. From the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées he televised "Viva Vivaldi" with Cecilia Bartoli.

Since 1979 Large has directed over 80 opera-, recital- and gala-telecasts from the Metropolitan Opera New York with James Levine and he has televised the 1983–84 Spring Centennial Gala, the 1991 25th Anniversary Gala, the 1996 James Levine's 25th Anniversary gala, the 1998 Pavarotti's 30th Anniversary gala and the 2006 Farewell Gala to General Manager Joseph Volpe.

In the United States Large has televised operas from the:

as well as concerts from the:

and a decade of Opening Night gala events from:

Renowned conductors and orchestras he has worked with include:

Awards and honors

Large has received two primetime Emmy Awards:

1992 for The Metropolitan Opera Silver Anniversary Gala (Levine, 1991) (TV) at Lincoln Center for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Classical Music/ Dance Programming – Directing; and again in 1993 for the live transmission of Tosca conducted by Zubin Mehta (1992) (TV) from Rome, seen worldwide on 106 television networks, and for Outstanding Individual Achievement – Classical Music/ Dance Programming – Directing, (shared with Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (director)).[6]

Other honors:

1986 Large received a Peabody Award for the live CBS telecast "Sunday Morning: Vladimir Horowitz" (1986) from the famed Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.[7]
1981 The British Television Society recognized Large as "Best Television Director" for the Chéreau/ Boulez production of Der Ring des Nibelungen;
1990 for "The Three Tenors" FIFA world cup concert on 7 July 1990 from the Bath of Caracalla in Rome and again in
1993 for Stiffelio (Carreras) from Covent Garden ,
further with its Judges' Award (Programme) for outstanding achievement in the field of television direction.[8]
1990 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts/BAFTA recognized Large as "Best Television Director" for "The Three Tenors".

For the 'excellence of his opus of more than 600 programmes,' the 44th annual Golden Prague Festival in June 2007 honored Large with a special tribute for his contribution to the industry, and named his 2006 Salzburg DVD of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro "Best Performing Arts Programme – Opera". In 1985 the French government named Large a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Publications

  • Smetana (London, 1970)[9]
  • Martinů (London, 1975)[10]

Large wrote the Grove Dictionary's entry on Martinů.[11]

He has also translated the libretto to Wagner's The Flying Dutchman.[12]

Videography

Filmography

A filmography of Large's TV opera and concert productions of more than 150 titles covering the years 1970 to 2009 is available on The Internet Movie Database IMDb / Brian Large.[13]

References

  1. ^ Royal Academy of Music – Who is Who
  2. ^ Peter Evans in Britten's Television Opera Musical Times Publications, 112(1) Ltd., 1971, pp. 425–429 (1971)
  3. ^ DG / Unitel[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ BR Symphonieorchester INFO DVD Programme, Print-No. 07024B, 2007 Telepool GmbH
  5. ^ Orphée et Eurydice at Discogs Théâtre du Châtelet (EMI 2008)
  6. ^ Brian Large awards at IMDb.com. Accessed November 2009
  7. ^ Brian Large 11 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine at Peabody Awarda, seen last: November 2009
  8. ^ Brian Large at https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Royal_Television_Society_UK/1993, seen last: November 2009
  9. ^ Large, Brian (1970). Smetana (in Spanish). London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-0512-7. OCLC 123048.
  10. ^ Large, Brian (1975). Martinu. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-0770-7. OCLC 1463536.
  11. ^ Brian Large: "Martinů Bohuslav (Jan)" in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, Macmillan, London 1980 (6th ed.), vol. 11, pp. 731–735
  12. ^ Wagner, Richard (1975). The Flying Dutchman : the German libretto with a line-by-line English singing version. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-0938-6. OCLC 15487178.
  13. ^ Brian Large at IMDb, seen last: 11 November 2009

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Brian Large born 16 February 1939 in London England is a television director and author He is among the world s foremost TV directors specializing in opera and classical music Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Studies 1 2 BBC 1965 1980 1 3 International networks and opera companies 2 Awards and honors 3 Publications 4 Videography 5 Filmography 6 References 7 External linksBiography EditStudies Edit Large studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Academy in 1991 1 After graduating from the University of London with doctorates in both music and philosophy he did postgraduate work in Vienna and Prague His interest in Czech and Slavic opera resulted in the publication of two pioneering volumes on the music of Bedrich Smetana and Bohuslav Martinu BBC 1965 1980 Edit He joined BBC2 television as a director with responsibility for music and opera at its inception in 1965 He was appointed chief opera producer in 1970 During this period he televised Burning Fiery Furnace Idomeneo and Peter Grimes with Pears and Britten La traviata Harwood Macbeth Johnson Shicoff Bailey Ghiaurov Amahl and the Night Visitors Hansel und Gretel Johns Bailey Love for Three Oranges and Der fliegende Hollander Johns Bailey In 1966 the BBC commissioned an opera for television from Benjamin Britten In August 1970 Owen Wingrave op 85 libretto Britten Piper based on a short story by Henry James was completed He directed and televised the world premiere conducted by the composer in November 1970 It was first broadcast on BBC2 on 16 May 1971 2 During his time at the Corporation Large directed for Britain s Royal Opera Tosca Jurinac Aida Jones Bumbry Craig Downes and Otello Cossutto Cappuccilli Downes He directed numerous programmes by Sir Frederick Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan from The Royal Ballet including Cinderella Collier Dowell Sleeping Beauty Sibley Elite Syncopations Mason He worked with Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev At the BBC he also directed numerous live telecasts of concerts with Claudio Abbado Prokoviev s Piano Concerto No 3 with Martha Argerich Daniel Barenboim Dvorak Cello Concerto with du Pre Sir John Barbirolli Elgar symphonies and orchestral works by Delius Leonard Bernstein Stravinsky s The Rite of Spring Shostakovich s Symphony No 5 Sibelius Symphony No 5 Sir Adrian Boult Elgar s The Dream of Gerontius with Baker Pears and Shirley Quirk symphonies by Elgar and Vaughan Williams Benjamin Britten Tschaikowsky s Rococo Variations with Rostropovich and symphonies Sir Colin Davis Shostakovich s Cello Concerti 1 amp 2 with Rostropovich Kirill Kondrashin Brahms Double Concerto with Oistrakh and Rostropovich Igor Stravinsky his Firebird Ballet and Sir William Walton his Belshazar s Feast International networks and opera companies Edit Wolfgang Wagner in 1974 invited Large to Bayreuth to collaborate on documenting the works of his grandfather Richard Wagner on television Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg twice Kollo and Jerusalem initiated a series that over twelve years included Tannhauser Studer Versalle Brendel Sotin Sinopoli Parsifal Jerusalem Stein Der fliegende Hollander Estes Balslev Salminen Schunk Nelson Lohengrin twice Stein and Nelson and perhaps one of the most acclaimed programs in the history of classical music on television Der Ring des Nibelungen Boulez Chereau 3 For the latter the Royal Television Society named him Best Television Director in 1981 Since leaving the BBC in 1980 Large has continued to direct telecasts for the Royal Opera including Les Contes d Hoffmann Domingo Baltsa Pretre La boheme Cotrubaș Shicoff Gardelli Die Fledermaus Te Kanawa Prey Mehta Der Rosenkavalier Te Kanawa Solti Aida Studer Downes Don Carlo Cotrubaș Lima Haitink Falstaff Bruson Giulini Luisa Miller Ricciarelli Domingo Bruson Maazel Romeo et Juliette Alagna Mackerras Lorin Maazel s world premiere of 1984 Keenlyside Damrau Maazel Otello Te Kanawa Domingo Solti Simon Boccanegra Te Kanawa Solti Stiffelio and Il trovatore Cura Hvorostovsky Rizzi From the Glyndebourne Festival he has televised The Makropulos Case Silia Sir Andrew Davis and Le comte Ory Massis Sir Andrew Davis Following the internationally televised Royal Opera House Gala for the Queen s Silver Jubilee in 1977 invitations came to direct performing arts programs for numerous TV networks and opera companies including Vienna State Opera Vienna Volksoper Wiener Festwochen 1995 1996 Theater an der Wien Vienna Philharmonic concerts in Salzburg 1996 1998 2000 2002 2005 2006 Salzburger Festspiele opera productions 1980 2010 Bregenzer Festspiele where he televised La Boheme Villazon awarded the 2003 Grand Prix Golden Prague Award Mozartwochen Salzburg 2006 and Musikverein 1989 2009 Large directed for the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra its annual New Year s Concert from 1989 to 1993 and again from 1997 to 2009 and in 2011 In Germany he has directed for ZDF from Deutsche Oper Berlin and two concerts at the Dresdner Frauenkirche with Angela Gheorghiu and Cecilia Bartoli Brian Large televised for Bayerischer Rundfunk from Bayerische Staatsoper Prinzregententheater and Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz and two special concerts from the Vatican honoring Pope Benedict XVI Jansons 27 October 2007 Thielemann 4 as well as the Opening Concert of the 2006 World Cup Games Domingo Damrau Lang Lang Jansons Mehta Thielemann He directed opera productions from La Scala among others Nabucco Dimitrova Bruson Muti and from the Arena di Verona Madame Butterfly Kabaivanska and Tosca Marton Aragall From the Mariinsky Theatre St Petersburg Large has televised opera under the musical direction of Valery Gergiev including Pique Dame and the original St Petersburg version of La forza del destino as well as ballet Jewels ballet and Don Quixote At the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris he directed The Cunning Little Vixen Mackerras Hytner Alceste von Otter Gardiner and Orphee et Eurydice Kozena Gardiner 5 From the Theatre des Champs Elysees he televised Viva Vivaldi with Cecilia Bartoli Since 1979 Large has directed over 80 opera recital and gala telecasts from the Metropolitan Opera New York with James Levine and he has televised the 1983 84 Spring Centennial Gala the 1991 25th Anniversary Gala the 1996 James Levine s 25th Anniversary gala the 1998 Pavarotti s 30th Anniversary gala and the 2006 Farewell Gala to General Manager Joseph Volpe In the United States Large has televised operas from the Los Angeles Opera San Francisco Opera Houston Grand Opera Lyric Opera of Chicago Washington National Opera and from the Philadelphia Operaas well as concerts from the Chicago Symphony Los Angeles Philharmonic San Francisco Symphony Philadelphia Orchestraand a decade of Opening Night gala events from Carnegie Hall Renowned conductors and orchestras he has worked with include Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker Daniel Barenboim BerlinerPhilharmoniker London Symphony Orchestra Pierre Boulez Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Valery Gergiev Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker Bernard Haitink Berliner Philharmoniker London Philharmonic Orchestra Nikolaus Harnoncourt Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Mariss Jansons Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Carlos Kleiber Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra James Levine Metropolitan Opera Sir Neville Marriner Academy of St Martin in the Fields Dresdner Staatskapelle Riccardo Muti Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Philadelphia Orchestra Seiji Ozawa Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Boston Symphony Orchestra Georges Pretre Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Simon Rattle Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Berliner Philharmoniker Sir Georg Solti Berliner Philharmoniker Chicago Symphony Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra Awards and honors EditLarge has received two primetime Emmy Awards 1992 for The Metropolitan Opera Silver Anniversary Gala Levine 1991 TV at Lincoln Center for Outstanding Individual Achievement Classical Music Dance Programming Directing and again in 1993 for the live transmission of Tosca conducted by Zubin Mehta 1992 TV from Rome seen worldwide on 106 television networks and for Outstanding Individual Achievement Classical Music Dance Programming Directing shared with Giuseppe Patroni Griffi director 6 Other honors 1986 Large received a Peabody Award for the live CBS telecast Sunday Morning Vladimir Horowitz 1986 from the famed Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory 7 1981 The British Television Society recognized Large as Best Television Director for the Chereau Boulez production of Der Ring des Nibelungen 1990 for The Three Tenors FIFA world cup concert on 7 July 1990 from the Bath of Caracalla in Rome and again in 1993 for Stiffelio Carreras from Covent Garden further with its Judges Award Programme for outstanding achievement in the field of television direction 8 1990 The British Academy of Film and Television Arts BAFTA recognized Large as Best Television Director for The Three Tenors For the excellence of his opus of more than 600 programmes the 44th annual Golden Prague Festival in June 2007 honored Large with a special tribute for his contribution to the industry and named his 2006 Salzburg DVD of Mozart s Le nozze di Figaro Best Performing Arts Programme Opera In 1985 the French government named Large a Chevalier de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Publications EditSmetana London 1970 9 Martinu London 1975 10 Large wrote the Grove Dictionary s entry on Martinu 11 He has also translated the libretto to Wagner s The Flying Dutchman 12 Videography EditMozart Idomeneo 1982 Deutsche Grammophon DVD 00440 073 4234 The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 Deutsche Grammophon DVD 00440 073 4582 Dvorak in Prague A Celebration 1993 Kultur Video DVD D4211 James Levine s 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala 1996 Deutsche Grammophon DVD B0004602 09Filmography EditA filmography of Large s TV opera and concert productions of more than 150 titles covering the years 1970 to 2009 is available on The Internet Movie Database IMDb Brian Large 13 References Edit Royal Academy of Music Who is Who Peter Evans in Britten s Television Opera Musical Times Publications 112 1 Ltd 1971 pp 425 429 1971 DG Unitel permanent dead link BR Symphonieorchester INFO DVD Programme Print No 07024B 2007 Telepool GmbH Orphee et Eurydice at Discogs Theatre du Chatelet EMI 2008 Brian Large awards at IMDb com Accessed November 2009 Brian Large Archived 11 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine at Peabody Awarda seen last November 2009 Brian Large at https www imdb com Sections Awards Royal Television Society UK 1993 seen last November 2009 Large Brian 1970 Smetana in Spanish London Duckworth ISBN 0 7156 0512 7 OCLC 123048 Large Brian 1975 Martinu London Duckworth ISBN 0 7156 0770 7 OCLC 1463536 Brian Large Martinu Bohuslav Jan in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by Stanley Sadie Macmillan London 1980 6th ed vol 11 pp 731 735 Wagner Richard 1975 The Flying Dutchman the German libretto with a line by line English singing version London Duckworth ISBN 0 7156 0938 6 OCLC 15487178 Brian Large at IMDb seen last 11 November 2009External links EditBrian Large at IMDb Brian Large at The New York Times Movies database IMG Artists Brian Large s managementPortals Biography Classical music Opera Television Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Brian Large amp oldid 1117698475, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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