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. In an interview after the premiere of Marc-André Dalbavie's opera Charlotte Salomon, Bondy was asked whether his being Jewish had anything to do with his having directed the production. "So I said to her this is a production about a Jewish artist...the subject is the story of Charlotte Salomon" said Bondy, who then walked out on the interviewer. He died on 28 November 2015 in Zurich. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luc Bondy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2017False Confessions — Director, Screenplay
• 2009The Met — Tosca — Production Design, Director
• 2008König Lear — Director, Translator
• 2008La Seconde Surprise de l'amour — Stage Director
• 2004Don't Do That! — Director, Writer
• 2003Pornography — Screenplay
• 2001Dreimal Leben — Director
• 2001The Turn of the Screw — Stage Director
• 1999Figaro läßt sich scheiden — Director
• 1997Salome — Director
• 1996Verdi: Don Carlos — Director
• 1993Schlusschor — Director
• 1993The Absence
• 1987The Distant Land — Director, Writer
• 1981Die Ortliebschen Frauen — Director, Writer
• 1981Marianne and Juliane — Werner
• 1974Die See — Director

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 28 minutes — Self
• 2009La Traversée du désir — Self
• Europas Erbe - Die großen Dramatiker — Self
• Das Jahrhundert des Theaters — Self
• 2002Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container — Self
• Im Glashaus - Das philosophische Quartett — himself
• Through the Night with... — Self
• Sternstunde Philosophie — Self
• 1981In the Country of My Parents — Himself
• Club 2 — Self