
Born, Australia. Educated Melbourne University, and Oxford University (PhD)
Wozzeck, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Il trovatore, Boris Godunov, Dialogues of the Carmelites, Werther, Rigoletto, Hansel and Gretel, La traviata, The Barber of Seville, Beatrice and Benedict. Designed The Turn of the Screw
Directed Lohengrin, The Rake's Progress, Macbeth, Samson et Dalila, Otello, The Abduction from the Seraglio, Attila, Simon Boccanegra, Aida (Royal Opera, Covent Garden); A Masked Ball, Ariadne auf Naxos, Otello (Metropolitan Opera, New York); directed five of the BBC's Shakespeare cycle, Ghosts, The Rivals, a film of Tippett's A Midsummer Marriage and the mini-series The Green Man. Directed a film of Genghis Cohn and Trevor Griffiths' Danton. Other works include Three Sisters and Much Ado about Nothing (London); other West End productions include Shadowlands which transferred to Broadway, Beckett and Cyrano de Bergerac
Dialogues of the Carmelites and Il trovatore