Associate Artist
Freelance
Jul 2021 - Jul 2022
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Michael Hunt Frsa Email & Phone Number
Associate Director - Michael Tippet’s NEW YEAR at Birmingham Opera Company. Freelance director and producer - future projects: Theatre for Young Spectators in Perm and Drama Theatre in Tyumen, Russia
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Associate Director - Michael Tippet’s NEW YEAR at Birmingham Opera Company. Freelance director and producer - future projects: Theatre for Young Spectators in Perm and Drama Theatre in Tyumen, Russia
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Hastings, England, United Kingdom
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Michael Hunt Frsa is listed as Associate Director - Michael Tippet’s NEW YEAR at Birmingham Opera Company. Freelance director and producer - future projects: Theatre for Young Spectators in Perm and Drama Theatre in Tyumen, Russia based in Hastings, England, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at capetownopera.co.za and a matched LinkedIn profile for Michael Hunt Frsa.
Michael Hunt Frsa previously worked as Associate Artist at Freelance and Artistic Director at Cape Town Opera. Michael Hunt Frsa holds Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry from Chemistry - Liverpool University.
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About Michael Hunt Frsa
Current Associate Director to Keith Warner on NEW YEAR at Birmingham Opera Company**** In July 2022 I successfully produced Keith Warner’s new production of KING LEAR at The Grange Festival**** Following my appointment as Artistic Director at Cape Town it proved impossible to secure a work visa after 1 year, so the company and I have had to reluctantly had to separate. COVID has resulted in severe delays in government processing.**** Recently directed a new Alice in Wonderland for TUZ in Perm**** Recently directed a new production of Jesus Christ Superstar for Perm TT.**** Recently directed The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe for Perm TUZ**** Recently directed Picasso at The Playground Theatre, London**** Recently directed The Knitting Pattern Play at Theatre503, London**** Michael is involved in the development of a series of music-theatre productions in Qatar and the region in collaboration with Al Jazeera. These are specially written and designed for the region and performed in classical arabic.**** Michael is currently working on a very large, site-specific production for Terezin, returning a music-theatre piece to the place where in 1944 it was written and rehearsed but never received a premiere as, on the day of the opening performance, the composer and most of the participants were transported to Auschwitz, where they were murdered.**** Michael's production of HANSEL UND GRETEL was named as one of the 10 Best Opera Productions in Europe 2013 by the Italian critics ****Michael received the Perm State Prize for Culture – the only non-Russian to have been awarded this top prize. His further work in Perm included the Russian premiere staging of Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn’s EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOURMichael directed THE TYRANT and Humperdinck’s HANSEL UND GRETEL at the Teatro Communale in Bolzano. THE TYRANT additionally performed at the 2012 OPERADAGEN Festival in Rotterdam. HANSEL UND GRETEL will be re-staged for the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck in 2014. His over 60 opera productions have included work for Las Palmas – TANCREDI; Portland Opera (USA) – LES PECHERS DES PEARLES; Scottish Opera – IOLANTHE and OEDIPUS REX; Opera Ireland – LA TRAVIATA; Opera North – OEDIPUS REX. Michael directed the centenary production of LA BOHEME at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Listed skills include Performing Arts, Arts, Stage, Theatre/Opera Director, and 46 others.
32 roles · 37 years
Michael Hunt Frsa work experience
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Artistic Director
Mar 2021 - Jul 2021
Artistic Director Designate
Jul 2020 - Mar 2021
Producer
King Lear Directed By Keith Warner
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Director - Alice In Wonderland
Theatre For Young Spectators
New adaptation, play with music
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Programme Director
Perm Theatre Showcase
Programme Director for Perm Theatre Showcase
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
Director
The Playground Theatre
PICASSO by Terry d'Orfonso - the premier production at this new theatre
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Director
The Playground Theatre
PICASSO by Terry d'Alfonso
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
Producer And Director
Al Jazeera - Baraem Tv
Developing new children's music-theatre production
Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
Director - Hansel Und Gretel By Humperdinck
Teatro Communale, Bolzano
Highly successful production that has been programmed for 2014 in Innsbruck. Broadcast live in Italy.VOTED ONE OF THE 10 BEST OPERA PRODUCTIONS IN EUROPE 2013 BY THE ITALIAN CRITICS
Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Director - Peter Pan
Perm Theatre For Young Spectators
Jun 2012 - Oct 2012
Director - Fidelio By Beethoven
Perm State Opera
A unique production of Fidelio in Perm 36, the last remaining Gulag in the former Soviet Union. With a cast of over 650, the audience of 250 will move around different parts of the site, encountering scenes in different locations. The production was named Arts Event of the Year in Moscow Music Express Newspaper for 2010.http://operatheatre.perm.ru/media/photos/album/46
Mar 2010 - Jul 2012
Artistic Director
Perm International Theatre Project
2012 - PERM-HAMLET Productions of Shakespeare's HAMLET, Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD and Akunin's HAMLET2013 - PERM-FAUST
Jan 2011 - Mar 2012
Director - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour By Stoppard
Perm Academic Teatr-Teatr
Every Good Boy Deserves Favour has previously been banned in Russia. This is the Russian premiere in a new translation. This was the Russian premiere. The play deals with the issue of the wrongful imprisonment of political dissidents in mental asylums in the 1970's and 80's. It is a good follow-up to my site-specific production of Beethoven's Fidelio in the summer of 2010. This was a massive success and we hope to revive it in 2012. See the Facebook group - FIDELIO in the Gulag".................I think your production of EGBDF is magnificent. I’m shamefaced that it has taken me all this time to be able to thank you and congratulate you. I admired everything about it – the actors especially, but the continual inventiveness and style of the whole thing, the movement, the dancers, the physicality and the look of it all. But the two Ivanovs above all. I hope you will have an opportunity to convey my admiration to them especially, and indeed to all six of them. I loved the teacher too. I thought you cast it so well. " Tom Stoppard
Nov 2010 - Mar 2012
International Projects Director
International Theatre Project
Directing Shakespeare's HAMLET and Stoppard's ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, opening in October 2012. Also a new play by Yuri Muravitsky at Teatr-Teatr in Perm, Russia. My production of Paul Dresher's opera THE TYRANT is featured in this year's Operdangen Festival in Rotterdam.
Jan 2008 - Mar 2012
Director - The Tyrant By Paul Dresher
Bolzano Teatro Communale
Directed the EUROPEAN PREMIERE production which went also to Rotterdam Festival. Broadcast live in Italy
2011 - 2012
~1 yr
Chief Executive
Wexford Festival Opera
Detailed planning and implementation of 2006 & 7 Festivals Increase in Arts Council Funding from €950K to €2Million Project Management of temporary theatre build - costing €1.2Million Increase in attendance of 32% Negotiated contracts with MU and others for the formation of the Wexford Festival Orchestra Development of new Business Plan for the new opera house Turnover increased to €4.5Million Supervised new marketing plan Budget planning and maintenance
2006 - 2008
~2 yrs
Artistic Director
Co-Opera
Artistic Director/CEOTurnover up to €1.3MillionFunding and financial planningDetailed planning and administration of 2 tours per year (48 performances)Negotiating with agentsFormation and delivery of budgetsPlanning seasons, casting etcOrganising auditionsWorking closely with venues around the countrySupervising marketing strategyRepresenting the company at International ForumsWriting 5-year Strategic Development Document for Opera Ireland
Sep 1998 - Jun 2006
Associate Director
Belltable Arts Centre
Artistic Programming, Directing resident company
Jan 1996 - Jan 2006
Associate Director
Belltable Arts Centre
Artistic Programming, Staff Development, Board DevelopmentPreparation of budgets with the Artistic DirectorDeputising for the Artistic Director during a long period of illnessWorking with General Manager on marketing imagePlanning and developing community toursSupervising Outreach programmeContracting artists and liaising with agentsNegotiating Partnership arrangements with Bristol Old Vic
2002 - 2003
~1 yr
Associate Director
Everyman Theatre
Co-Directed AMADEUS and directed BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS. Programming and Board Development.
Jan 1994 - Jan 2006
Director/Ceo
Waterford Theatre Royal
Increase in Arts Council Funding of €180K Increase in performances from 87 to 260 per annum Turnover up to €1 Million Fund-raising - business community & public funding Overall supervision of budgets and financial performance Engagement of creative personnel Negotiating funding Developing Artistic Policy with Board and others Awarded "2006 Business Excellence Award" - Waterford Chamber of Commerce Awarded "2006 Arts Person of the Year" - WLR Radio
2003 - 2006
~3 yrs
Director - Oedipus Rex By Stravinsky And Iolanthe By Gilbert & Sullivan
Scottish Opera
2 revivals of the Stravinsky and 3 of IOLANTHE.
Jan 1989 - Jan 2005
Director Of Performing Arts
Riverside Studios, London
Devising programmes for the two performance venues - theatre, dance and musicProgramming companies; Developing budgets and supervising their deliveryFund-raising and funding applicationsIncrease in earned income of department from 210,000 to 580,000 (Sterling)Supporting the work of new writers and commissioning projectsLine management of Production Manager and Marketing Manager and 6 other staff
Jan 1991 - Jan 2003
Programme Director
Cheltenham International Music
Artistic Programming
Jan 1981 - Jan 2003
Director
Man In The Moon Theatre
Directed productions, Programming and administration
Jan 1980 - Jan 2003
Visiting Lecturer
Theatre Design Wimbledon School Of Art
Working with students on projects related to their degree studies(MA and BA)Assessing the work of the studentsContributing to policy in relation to the MA degree courseOccasional directing of work in collaboration with otherLecturers
Jan 1990 - Jan 2002
Consultant Director
Quay Theatre
Artistic Programming, Marketing, Staff Development, Board Development
2000 - 2001
~1 yr
Co-Director - Amadeus, Director - Blue Remembered Hills
Cheltenham Everyman Theatre
2000 - 2001
~1 yr
Consultant Director
Quay Theatre
This short appointment covered the period required to recruit a new Director, because of the death of the incumbent. During this time I was responsible for the corporate re-design of the theatre and its marketing
1990 - 1993
~3 yrs
Staff Director
English National Opera
Assisting directors including: Keith Warner, David Pountney, Graham Vick, Colin Graham, Joachim Herz, Jonathan Miller, John Copley. Directing revivals including FIDELIO, ORPHEUS IN THE UNDERWORLD, MADAM BUTTERFLY, THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA, PARSIFAL, JULIUS CAESAR. Directed new productions of AIDA - main stage, and MADAM BUTTERFLY - Schools tour.
Jan 1983 - Jan 1988
Artistic Director
Cheltenham Arts Centre
Multi-function arts centre. Founded and directed the resident theatre company and programmed the centres International work.
Mar 1981 - Sep 1983
2 education records
Michael Hunt Frsa education
Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry
Chemistry - Liverpool University
Education record
Wanstead High School
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Michael Hunt Frsa is listed as Associate Director - Michael Tippet’s NEW YEAR at Birmingham Opera Company. Freelance director and producer - future projects: Theatre for Young Spectators in Perm and Drama Theatre in Tyumen, Russia.
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Where is Michael Hunt Frsa based?
Michael Hunt Frsa is based in Hastings, England, United Kingdom.
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Michael Hunt Frsa has worked for Freelance, Cape Town Opera, King Lear Directed By Keith Warner, Theatre For Young Spectators, and Perm Theatre Showcase.
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Michael Hunt Frsa holds Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Chemistry from Chemistry - Liverpool University.
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Michael Hunt Frsa is listed with skills including Performing Arts, Arts, Stage, Theatre/Opera Director, Artistic Director, Artistic Programming, Plays, and Music.
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