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date = "2016-07-03T11:37:00-06:00"
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title = "Paul Curran"
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Award winning director, Paul Curran, is a graduate in Directing of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Sydney, and of the Finnish National Opera, Helsinki. 
He was Artistic Director of the Norwegian National Opera from 2007 – 2011.

Recent production highlights include *La Donna del Lago* Metropolitan Opera, New York; *La traviata* Opera Philadelphia, Bucharest National Opera; World Premiere of *Becoming Santa Claus* Dallas Opera; *A Midsummer Night's Dream* Palau Les Arts Valencia; *La Cenerentola* Teatro San Carlo Napoli; *Man of La Mancha* Central City Opera; *La Cenerentola Teatro* Maestanza Seville; *Tristan und Isolde* Teatro La Fenice Venice; *La Donna del Lago* Santa Fe Opera; *Der Fliegende Holländer* Ekaterinburg Opera; *Ariodante* Royal Academy of Music; *Faramondo* Göttingen Händel Festival; *Die Zauberflöte* for Norwegian National Opera; *Rusalka* at the New National Theatre Tokyo; *Pagliacci* Royal Danish Theatre and Norwegian National Opera; *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk*, *Tosca* and *Otello* Canadian Opera Company; *Albert Herring* Los Angeles Opera; a new production of *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* Teatro Dell’Opera Roma; *Peter Grimes* Savonlinna Opera Festival; Baden Baden 1927 Gotham Chamber Opera NY.
 
Other directorial credits include: a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s *The Tsar's Bride* ROH, Covent Garden; *Tannhäuser* Teatro alla Scala, Milan; *La Bohème*, *Billy Budd*, *Albert Herring* and *Peter Grimes* Santa Fe Opera; *Die Frau ohne Schatten* and *Lulu* Chicago Lyric Opera; *Ariadne auf Naxos* Flanders Opera Antwerp, *I Lombardi* Teatro Comunale Florence; *Die Fledermaus* and *L’Incoronazione di Poppea* Royal College of Music, London; *Ariadne auf Naxos* and *Daphne* (DVD) Teatro La Fenice, Venice; *Chérubin* (DVD) Cagliari; *Peter Grimes* and *Otello* Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Trieste; *Tosca* Canadian Opera; *Peter Grimes* Washington Opera and *Otello* Welsh National Opera; *Pastorale* (world premiere) Stuttgart Opera; *Il Trovatore* (DVD) Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, Teatro Comunale, Bologna and Bunka Kaikan, Tokyo; *Tristan und Isolde* BBC Symphony Orchestra; *La Finta Giardiniera* Garsington Opera; *I Capuleti e i Montecchi* Spoleto Festival USA; *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* and *Die Königskinder* (Humperdinck) which won the Italian Critics' Prize, Premio Abbiati, *La Statira* (Cavalli) and *La Cenerentola* (DVD) Teatro San Carlo, Naples; *Mirandolina* (Martinu) and *Eva* (Foerster) Wexford Festival; *The Miserly Knight* (Rachmaninov) and *Eine Florentinische Tragödie* (Zemlinsky) Teatro Sao Carlos, Lisbon; *Prince Igor* and *Tosca* Mariinsky Theatre; the British premiere of *Kullervo* (Aulis Sallinen) and *I Gioielli della Madonna* (Wolf-Ferrari) UCO London; *Hamlet* with designer Vivienne Westwood for the Clerkenwell Music Series, *A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum* and *The Man of La Mancha* at the Covent Garden Festival (also recorded on CD), *A Little Night Music* Columbus Ohio, *The Bear* (Chekhov) and *The Rehearsal* (a new play, both as writer and director) with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at Disney Hall.
