Luc Bondy
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- July 17, 1948, Zürich, Switzerland
- Died
- November 28, 2015
- Movies
- 18
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 opening night, 21 September 2009. The reception was generally negative. James Levine, the music director at the Metropolitan Opera likened the production to a 'Hitchcock movie' and the cultural critic for the New York Times, Charles McGrath, felt that the new production was a part of Gelb's mission to transform the Met by emphasizing theatricality.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2009 | La Traversée du désir | Self |
| 2002 | Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container | Self |
| 1993 | The Absence | |
| 1981 | In the Country of My Parents | Himself |
| 1981 | Marianne and Juliane | Werner |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2017 | False Confessions | Director, Screenplay |
| 2009 | The Met — Tosca | Director |
| 2008 | König Lear | Director |
| 2004 | Don't Do That! | Director, Writer |
| 2003 | Pornography | Screenplay |
| 2001 | Dreimal Leben | Director |
| 1999 | Figaro läßt sich scheiden | Director |
| 1997 | Salome | Director |
| 1996 | Verdi: Don Carlos | Director |
| 1993 | Schlusschor | Director |
| 1987 | The Distant Land | Director, Writer |
| 1981 | Die Ortliebschen Frauen | Director, Writer |
| 1974 | Die See | Director |
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