Simon Stone

Simon Stone

Nacimiento : 1984-08-19, Basel, Switzerland

Historia

Simon Stone is a Swiss-born Australian actor, director and writer who works in film and theatre.

Perfil

Simon Stone

Películas

Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
Director
Penderecki's Opera of an entire convent, in the small French village of Loudun, apparently possessed by the devil.
The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia Di Lammermoor
Director
On May 21, soprano Nadine Sierra takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by in-demand Australian theater and film director Simon Stone, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. Show-stopping tenor Javier Camarena adds to the bel canto fireworks as Lucia’s beloved, Edgardo, with baritone Artur Ruciński as her overbearing brother, Enrico, and bass Matthew Rose as her tutor, Raimondo. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
Director
Saariaho: Innocence
Director
The world premiere of composer Kaija Saariaho's opera, "Innocence", at the 2021 Aix-en-Provence Festival. Finland is the setting but the protagonists come from the four corners of Europe: a Finnish groom and his Romanian bride, a French mother-in-law and a Czech maid. Around them memories unravel in a contemporary tragedy of guilt and lost innocence.
La excavación
Director
Crónica de la relación entre la terrateniente Edith Pretty y Basil Brown, el arqueólogo que impulsó la excavación de Sutton Hoo en 1938, cuando el mundo se preparaba para la guerra.
Medea
Director
The inalienable and inconceivable core of an old myth is swirling and fermenting beneath the surface of a recognizable contemporary story. Medea is called Anna in this version, a successful doctor who is trying to get on with her life after a forced confinement. She is willing to forgive the affair of her husband with a younger woman and to make a new start with him and the children. Soon it turns out that their plans for the future do not correspond. Anna is in danger of losing everything: her husband, her children, her career. She is cornered and sees only one way out.
Medea
Writer
The inalienable and inconceivable core of an old myth is swirling and fermenting beneath the surface of a recognizable contemporary story. Medea is called Anna in this version, a successful doctor who is trying to get on with her life after a forced confinement. She is willing to forgive the affair of her husband with a younger woman and to make a new start with him and the children. Soon it turns out that their plans for the future do not correspond. Anna is in danger of losing everything: her husband, her children, her career. She is cornered and sees only one way out.
Die tote Stadt (Bayerische Staatsoper)
Director
Erich Wolfgang Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" in a Bayerische Staatsoper production from 2019, directed by Simon Stone. Kirill Petrenko is conducting Jonas Kaufmann and Marlis Petersen.
La Traviata - Paris
Director
For his opera Garnier stage-directing debut, Simon Stone creates a sensational La Traviata, 2.0! Pretty Yende and Benjamin Bernheim triumph as Violetta and Alfredo in a production that remixes the beloved operatic masterpiece’s familiar love story for the digital age, adding social media notifications, all-nighters, texts, and parties to produce an interpretation starkly appropriate for our modern era. At the podium, Michele Mariotti conducts the Paris National Opera Orchestra.
Drei Schwestern
Director
National Theatre Live: Yerma
Adaptation
A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.
National Theatre Live: Yerma
Director
A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.
The Daughter
Screenplay
Un joven regresa a su ciudad natal y descubre un oscuro secreto de la familia que podría destrozar las vidas de aquellos que dejó atrás. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Daughter
Director
Un joven regresa a su ciudad natal y descubre un oscuro secreto de la familia que podría destrozar las vidas de aquellos que dejó atrás. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Turning
Director
Película dividida en episodios que adapta historias del escritor australiano Tom Winton. The Turning explora el impacto del pasado en la actualidad, cómo los incidentes aparentemente aleatorios que cambian y nos dan forma no se pueden escapar o dejar de lado. Todas las historias están unidas entre sí por temas recurrentes; el paso del tiempo, el arrepentimiento, la adicción y la obsesión.
Being Venice
Lenny
New Zealand-born, Aussie-based filmmaker Miro Bilbrough follows up her acclaimed shorts with her debut feature - a character study of a troubled young woman named Venice.
El foco de la tempestad
Peter
Elizabeth Hunter, una mujer de extraordinaria belleza, ejerce un férreo control sobre todo lo que la rodea: hijos, servicio, actos sociales; pero pronto tendrá que hacer frente al mayor reto de su vida: decidir el momento para morir.
Blame
Nick
A group of young vigilantes seeking revenge for a sexual betrayal fall far from grace. When the truth is out they find themselves on the dark side of justice.
Nice Shootin' Cowboy
Cormac
An Australian contemporary Western film.
Jindabyne
Billy the Kid
Stewart Kane, un irlandés que vive en la localidad australiana de Jindabyne, va a pescar con tres amigos y, unas horas después, descubren el cuerpo de una muchacha que ha sido asesinada. En lugar de regresar a casa de inmediato, los hombres siguen pescando y no dan cuenta del macabro hallazgo hasta que han pasado varios días. La última persona en enterarse es Claire, la esposa de Stewart: la conducta de su marido supone para ella un durísimo golpe que le hace perder toda la confianza que había depositado en él. En su afán por ayudar a los familiares de la víctima, Claire no sólo se enfrenta a su propia familia y a sus amistades, sino también a la familia de la joven fallecida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Kokoda: Batallón 39
Max Scholt
Una sección de soldados australianos ha sido enviada a patrullar la senda de Kokoda – una crítica línea que separa a Australia de la invasión. Después de ser bombardeados por los japoneses, los hombres quedan sin abastecimiento. Aislados en la jungla tras las líneas enemigas, deberán reagruparse con el resto de las tropas australianas a través de una de las regiones más inhóspitas de la tierra. Inspirada en la historia real de Kokoda, esta película evoca la terrorífica y visceral realidad de la guerra y devastadores efectos en la humanidad.
Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Writer
Anna, a young mother, escapes her cold and unfaithful husband, Ned, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, and the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast.
Sweet Lamb of Heaven
Director
Anna, a young mother, escapes her cold and unfaithful husband, Ned, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, and the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast.