In Conversation with Opera Director Paul Curran

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/fmAFILB-y7M

Join the Wagner Society as we welcome internationally renowned opera director Paul Curran as our guest. This will be in standard Zoom format and we will have open mic Q & A available as questions arise.

Paul Curran was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He played clarinet in the Glasgow Schools Orchestra and saw his first opera (Scottish Opera’s production of Wozzeck) in 1980. Moving to London, he trained as a ballet dancer at the London Studio Centre and the Central School of Ballet before studying with Sulamith Messerer. He worked for a time as an usher at English National Opera during the period when Lord Harewood, Mark Elder and David Pountney formed the artistic management of the company. He then spent two years at the ballet school of the Finnish National Opera and then three years as a professional dancer with Scottish Ballet and in Germany. A hip injury terminated his ballet career, and he worked as an interpreter and stage manager before, at the age of twenty-seven, entering the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney to study directing. Since then, he has circled the globe directing in many of the great houses including the Metropolitan, Santa Fe, Chicago, Covent Garden, La Scala, Wexford, La Fenice, and Naples. Curran also served as the General Director for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet 2007-2011.