Directing
Luc Bondy
- Born
- Jul 17, 1948 · Aged 67
- Died
- Nov 28, 2015
- Place of birth
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 5
- TV credits
- 7
- Directing credits
- 12
Biography
Luc Bondy (17 July 1948 – 28 November 2015) was a Swiss theatre and film director. Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1985 as a director at the Vienna Festival. He directed a staging of Tosca, by Puccini, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Both the opera, as well as the director, were greeted by loud boos on…
