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Ian first joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1975, and recent work at Stratford and London includes: THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, LOVES LABOURS LOST, TWELFTH NIGHT, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE RELAPSE, TROILUS AND CRESSIDA and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Other directing credits include: THE RIVALS and KING LEAR at the Old Vic; THE ORCHESTRA at the King's Head; FRIENDS OF DOROTHY and HOW LUCKY CAN YOU GET, Donmar Warehouse, London; BANANA RIDGE, ONE FOR THE POT and PETER PAN, Shaw Festival, Canada; HENRY THE EIGHTH and LOVE FOR LOVE for Chichester Festival Theatre. Musicals include: OH KAY!, Chichester Festival Theatre; THE SWAN-DOWN GLOVES for the RSC; MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, Guildhall Theatre, Barbican, and Bloomsbury Theatre, London; BITTER SWEET, New Sadler's Well Opera; A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC for Chichester Festival Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre, London; SHOW BOAT for the RSC and Opera North, also at the London Palladium, and WEST SIDE STORY in Melbourne/Adelaide and Sydney. Opera includes: FAUST, THE MERRY WIDOW and CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/PAGLIACCI, LA BELLE VIVETTE and DON QUIXOTE, English National Opera; MACBETH, TOSCA, ACIS AND GALATEA, ATTILA and BORIS GODUNOV, Opera North; ARIODANTE, Buxton Festival; FALSTAFF, for Scottish Opera , Bremer Theatre, Germany and The Royal Albert Hall; LOHENGRIN, Wiesbaden, Germany; a new production of TOSCA and MADAMA BUTTERFLY for Los Angeles Music Center Opera, both with Maria Ewing and Placido Domingo; NORMA for Scottish Opera and Buhnen Graz; MACBETH for Cologne Opera; THE TALES OF HOFFMAN at Victoria State Opera and Houston Grand Opera; FAUST for Opera Queensland Brisbane and Opera Australia, Sydney, COSI FAN TUTTI for Garsington Opera Festival; EUGENE ONEGIN, Grange Park Opera; DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER and SIMON BOCCANEGRA (1857) for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Recent work includes SIMON BOCCANEGRA (1881) for The Washington Opera; LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN, for Houston Grand Opera and Opera Pacific; MEFISTOFELE for English National Opera and the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Shakespeare’s MACBETH for the Sydney Theatre Company; THE MIKADO for D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (Savoy Theatre, London); LA BOHEME for The Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia; FALSTAFF with Sir John Eliot Gardiner at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, SALOME for the New York City Opera, LE NOZZE DI FIGARO for the LA Opera and ROMÉO ET JULIETTE for the LA Opera. Future plans: COSI FAN TUTTE (RCM), SIR JOHN IN LOVE (ENO) and DON CARLO (LA Opera). |