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Robert Chevara director
Director of Productions, English Touring Opera 1997 – 2001
1999 Best Contemporary Opera Production award (Powder Her Face) Sweden
1997 Japanese Government cultural study award.
1995 Churchill Fellowship award for operaRobert Chevara was born in London. His early enthusiasm for opera, drama, film and television is now reflected in his international career as a director, writer and choreographer. He is also a collector of contemporary art.
In 2009, Robert directed "La Voix Humaine" to great acclaim in Stockholm.
In 2002 he directed TOP GIRLS by Caryl Churchill for The English Theatre, Berlin. He worked with the company again in the summer of 2006 on a staged reading of CHEECH, or The Chrysler Guys Are In Town by Francois Létourneau. Also last year he adapted and directed The CANTERBURY TALES as an inter-active promenade play in Gatton Park. He directed a highly admired production of Dardanus at The Royal Academy of Music at the end of November 2006.In 2001 he directed The RAKE'S PROGRESS for English Touring Opera, for whom Robert was Director of Productions from 1997-2001. He was invited to New Zealand Opera to direct MADAMA BUTTERFLY and to Banff, Canada to direct the world premiere of a new opera by Pascal Dusapin, entitled TO BE SUNG.
Robert directed CARMEN (which was also seen in France), FIDELIO and MACBETH for English Touring Opera; an award-winning POWDER HER FACE for Ystad Opera Festival in Sweden; Handel's RADAMISTO and LOTHARIO for the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio's London showcase. He was co-director on the BBC2 production of THE VAMPIRE, which won the Prix Italia and directed HAMLET and MARY ROSE by J.M.Barrie to great critical acclaim. Robert has also directed opera productions at Zurich Opera, Dublin Grand Opera, Banff in Canada, Copenhagen Royal Opera and the Opéra Comique, Paris and both directed and designed a triple-bill Gershwin, Barber and Bernstein operas at the Barbican Centre, London.
He has choreographed LES NOCES in Canada to great acclaim.Two recent projects were a film performance installation by artist Victor Burgin for the London Symphony Orchestra's Centre at St. Luke's Old Street in London and a hugely successful devised play with music FAIR! in Rayleigh High Security Women's Prison for the National Youth Theatre.
In 2010 Robert directed Purity and Desire (song cycles of Schumann and Wagner) and a new play The Bench by punk legend Bertie Marshall at The Drill Hall, London.
Robert was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 1995 and the Japanese Government's cultural study award in 1997. Mid Wales Opera won the Prudential Award for his production of Carmen.
Future projects include directing a new play by Rikki Beadle-Blair,
West End Girl (his own free adaptation of Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West" at the Kings Head
a production of "Cavalleria Rusticana"
and a revival of "La Voix Humaine" in Berlin.© Robert Chevara, 2011