Sir David McVicar (born 1966) is a Scottish opera and theatre director.
McVicar was born in Glasgow in 1966.[1] [2] He studied as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating in 1989. In 2007, The Independent ranked him among the 100 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britain.[3] He was the guest on the BBC's Desert Island Discs on 5 October 2008.
He was created a Knight Bachelor in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to opera.[4]
La Monnaie, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, English National Opera
Royal Opera House
Bilbao, Oviedo, English National Opera[5]
Metropolitan Opera 2011
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
English National Opera
Salzburg Festival, Vlaamse Opera
Metropolitan Opera 2022
La Monnaie
Lyric Opera of Chicago
La Monnaie
Metropolitan Opera, 2022
New Zealand International Arts Festival
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Metropolitan Opera 2013
Vlaamse Opera, Scottish Opera
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra national du Rhin, Copenhagen Opera House
Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Opera House
Scottish Opera
Metropolitan Opera, 2013
Metropolitan Opera, 2022
La Monnaie
Metropolitan Opera, 2017
Royal Opera House
Opera North
Royal Opera House
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Opera North, Scottish Opera
Metropolitan Opera 2016
Royal Opera House
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Opéra national du Rhin
Opera North
English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera 2017
Metropolitan Opera 2013, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera
Lyric Opera of Chicago
La Monnaie, Royal Opera House
McVicar's productions of Faust, Le nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Rigoletto and Salome at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, his Carmen and much-acclaimed Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne, and his Manon at the Liceu are all available on DVD.
Of his thirteen productions for the Metropolitan Opera, all are available for streaming in HD video at Met Opera on Demand: