Jonathan Moore - Director

An award-winning director of Stage plays, opera, film and television. He has directed several of his own plays including "Treatment" at the Donmar and Edinburgh Festival, "Street Captives" at the Gate and Edinburgh Festival, as well as "This Other Eden" at the Soho Theatre, London.

He burst onto the international opera scene with his universally acclaimed production of "Greek" (music by Mark Anthony Turnage) widely described as one of the landmarks of the Twentieth Century, for which he also co-adapted the text. The press enthusiastically described his work as "a resounding, unanimous triumph... riveting total theatre." (The Sunday Times)". Performed at the Munich Biennale, English National Opera, and Moore directed the BBC Film version, winning a Midem Award at Cannes and the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Best Film. The opera is still regularly performed around the world.

Since then Moore has gone on on to astonish, delight, astound and amuse opera audiences in Britain and throughout Europe with his "typically intense, high-octane" (The Times) world premiere productions by the world's leading contemporary composers including Schnittke, MacMillan, Nyman, Henze, Muller-Wieland, Ludovico Einaudi among many others. These were performed at a variety of the world's most prestigious opera houses with productions at the English National Opera, the Scottish Opera, Venice's famed La Fenice Opera House, Opera North, Bonn Opera, Darmstadt, Almeida Opera etc.

Recently Moore directed a "timeless and mesmerising" (The Daily Mail) production of Mozart's "Magic Flute" for Scottish Opera. A radical but loving version, it was both loved and hated by the critics, too! "This is a cracking good night of entertainment. It is big, it is bold, it is packed full of great ideas and visual gags, and it tells what is quite a complex little story very clearly." (Thom Diblin, The Evening News).

Prior to (and alongside) his opera work, Moore has also collaborated on new work with the acclaimed young Violinist Daniel Hope and The great jazz pianist Uri Caine, as well as Rock musicians Killing Joke, the late Joe Strummer, Jah Wobble, Stewart Copeland and the industrial percussionists Test Dept.

His next directorial project in the theatre will be the astonishing "The Revengers Tragedy" at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, a verse play written in 1606 by either Thomas Middleton or Cyril Tourneur. Even the play's authorship is controversial. It's a blackly comic tale of murder and revenge, rich in savage poetry, sensuality and humour.

"The Revengers Tragedy" is a little like one of Moore's own plays, actually...