Matthew Diamond

출생 : 1951-11-26, Manhattan, New York, USA

약력

Matthew Diamond is an American film and television director, producer and choreographer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999 for directing the documentary film The Dancemaker. As well as being nominated for several Primetime Emmy Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, DGA Awards, and won at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

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Mr. Saturday Night
Director
Billy Crystal stars—again—as Buddy Young, Jr. in this entertaining musical about an outrageous and outspoken comedian who has one last shot at reclaiming the spotlight—and his family—one hilarious step at a time. Now, some 40 years after his TV career flamed out, Buddy seeks one more shot at the spotlight, and while he’s at it, one last shot at fixing the family he fractured along the way.
The Five Moons of Lorca
Director
A short opera about the assassination of poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca at the hands of Nationalist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
True Love Blooms
Director
Spring is in full bloom when urban gardener Vicki fights to save her community garden from a handsome real estate developer. Both are caught off guard when it's not just the flowers that are blooming, but also love.
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice
Director
Reimagine Christoph Willibald Gluck’s enduringly popular opera based on the famous Greek myth. From Lyric Opera of Chicago in collaboration with the Joffrey Ballet. Starring Dmitry Korchak, Andriana Chuchman and Lauren Snouffer.
사랑의 묘약
Director
시골의 젊은 농부 네모리노는 지주의 딸 아디나를 짝사랑한다. 그는 자신의 사랑을 이루기 위해 약장수 둘카마라에게 약을 사서 마신다. 하지만 약의 정체는 싸구려 포도주였고 아무런 효력을 발휘하지 못한다. 아디나는 이때 마을을 방문한 군인 벨코레에게 청혼을 받는다. 새로운 묘약을 살 돈을 구하기 위해 입대한 네모리노는 막대한 유산을 상속받아 부자가 되고, 많은 여자들이 관심을 표한다. 이를 모르던 네모리는 묘약의 효력이 드는 것이라 믿고, 후에 자신을 위해 입대까지 한 것을 안 아디나는 감동받아 네모리노와 행복한 결말을 맞는다.
루이자 밀러
Director
17세기 초기, 티롤의 한 마을에서 벌어진 처녀를 둘러싼 사랑과 음모를 다룬 작품. 루이자는 백작의 아들이지만 평범한 청년으로 위장한 로돌포를 사랑한다. 여기에 아들을 부유한 미망인과 결혼시키려는 백작, 그리고 루이자를 탐하는 그의 비서관 부름이 개입하게 된다. 루이자는 백작에게 체포되어 죽음의 위험에 빠진 아버지를 구하고자 로돌포가 아니라 부름을 사랑한다는 거짓 고백을 담은 편지를 쓴다. 이로 인해 루이자는 로돌포의 오해를 사게 되고 여러 사람의 죽음을 초래하게 되는데...
라 보엠
Director
가난하지만 예술을 사랑하는 젊은 보헤미안들의 이야기. 화가 마르첼로와 시인 로돌포가 사는 다락방에 철학자 콜리네와 음악가 쇼나르가 찾아온다. 이들은 가난하지만 즐겁게 살아간다. 어느 크리스마스 이브, 로돌포는 촛불을 빌리러 온 이웃집 미미와 우연히 만나 한눈에 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 얼마 지나지 않아 미미는 자신이 폐병으로 죽어가고 있다는 사실을 알게 되고 병세는 점점 심각해진다.
Falsettos
Director
The 2016 Broadway Revival of William Finn's Tony-winning musical. It tells the story of Marvin, a Jewish family man who leaves his wife and son for a male lover during the height of the AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
Director
La Traviata’s sumptuous melodies and timeless depiction of doomed love have made the work a favorite of generations of operagoers. In his approach to this classic drama, director Willy Decker sets the action on a nearly bare stage, focusing the audience’s full attention on the three main characters. As Violetta, the ailing courtesan desperate to escape her past, soprano Sonya Yoncheva offers a fearless and sympathetic performance from beginning to end. American tenor Michael Fabiano sings with ardent longing as her devoted lover Alfredo, delivering emotionally wrought phrases and ringing top notes. Thomas Hampson brings a burnished baritone to Germont, Alfredo’s protective father whose stern demands spell disaster for the young couple. On the podium, maestro Nicola Luisotti leads an electric performance of Verdi’s unforgettable score.
Revelations
Director
Using African-American spirituals, song-sermons, gospel songs and holy blues, Alvin Ailey’s Revelations explores the places of deepest grief and holiest joy in the soul.
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
Director
Simon Keenlyside smolders dangerously in the title role of Mozart’s version of the legend of Don Juan, creating a vivid portrait of a man who is a law unto himself, and all the more dangerous for his eternally seductive allure. Adam Plachetka is his occasionally unruly servant Leporello. It’s when Giovanni tangles with Donna Anna (Hibla Gerzmava) that things start to unravel, aided by the reappearance of Donna Elvira (Malin Byström), who is determined not to let her seducer go. With Paul Appleby as Don Ottavio, Donna Anna’s eternally steadfast fiancé. Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the Met Orchestra and Chorus.
Lincoln Center at the movies presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Director
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater performs Takademe and Ailey's masterpiece Revelations. From 2016.
The Wiz Live!
Director
Winner of 7 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Wiz was a massive Broadway hit which spawned a dismal feature film starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. Executive Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have assembled a Tony-winning creative team, the imaginative Cirque du Soleil Theatrical and a diverse cast of showstoppers designed to create an eye-popping new take on the musical unlike anything ever seen.
The Metropolitan Opera: Lulu
Director
William Kentridge’s multi-layered production of Berg’s masterpiece stars charismatic soprano Marlis Petersen in the title role—the enigmatic and alluring woman who is equal parts femme fatale, innocent girl, and abused victim. The men around her, whose lives she forever alters, are Johan Reuter as newspaper publisher Dr. Schön; Daniel Brenna as his composer son, Alwa; Paul Groves as the Painter; and Franz Grundheber as Schigolch. Susan Graham sings Countess Geschwitz, and Lothar Koenigs conducts Berg’s landmark score.
Act One: Live from Lincoln Center
Director
James Lapine's tribute to a life in the theater based on Moss Hart's autobiography of the same name, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. The play, narrated by an older Moss Hart, traces his life from being poor in The Bronx to becoming famous and successful as a Broadway writer and director.
Undercover Bridesmaid
Director
A bodyguard must go undercover to protect, a tycoon's daughter from death threats before her big wedding day.
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Producer
A youthful cast brings Rossini’s immortal comedy to sparkling life, led by Christopher Maltman as Figaro, the resourceful barber and man-about-town of the title. The lovely Isabel Leonard is Rosina, the clever young woman at the center of the story, and Lawrence Brownlee sings Count Almaviva, the man who loves her and—with Figaro’s help—rescues her from the house of her elderly and smitten guardian, Bartolo, played by Maurizio Muraro. Paata Burchuladze is the bumbling music master Basilio, and rising conductor and bel canto specialist Michele Mariotti leads the Met’s musical forces in Bartlett Sher’s lively production.
Bizet: Carmen
Director
Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili gives a dynamic performance as Bizet’s iconic gypsy, the woman who lives by her own rules. Aleksandrs Antonenko is Don José, the soldier who falls under her spell, and Ildar Abdrazakov plays Escamillo, the swaggering bullfighter who takes Carmen away from Don José—an action that seals Carmen’s tragic fate. Anita Hartig is Micaëla, and Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Richard Eyre’s hit production, set in 1930s Spain.
The Nance
Director
Nathan Lane portrays a comic from the 1930s who plays gay men for laughs. Originally Episode 2 from Season 40 of Live From Lincoln Center on PBS.
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
Director
Michael Mayer’s acclaimed production, first seen in the 2012–13 season, sets the action of Verdi’s masterpiece in 1960 Las Vegas—a neon-lit world ruled by money and ruthless, powerful men. Piotr Beczała is the Duke, a popular entertainer and casino owner who will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Željko Lučić sings Rigoletto, his sidekick and comedian, and Diana Damrau is Rigoletto’s innocent daughter, Gilda. When she is seduced by the Duke, Rigoletto sets out on a tragic course of murderous revenge. Štefan Kocán is the assassin Sparafucile and Michele Mariotti conducts.
The Metropolitan Opera: Un Ballo in Maschera
Director
David Alden’s elegant 2012 production moves Verdi’s thrilling drama to a timeless setting inspired by film noir. Marcelo Álvarez is Gustavo III, the Swedish king in love with Amelia (Sondra Radvanovsky), the wife of his best friend and counselor, Count Anckarström (Dmitri Hvorostovsky). When Anckarström joins a conspiracy to murder the king, tragedy ensues. Stephanie Blythe is the fortuneteller Madame Ulrica Arvidsson and Kathleen Kim sings the page Oscar. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
Director
It's Schluufy's birthday, and the Oogieloves (Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie), along with their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window and Ruffy, are organizing a party. (Shh! It's a secret.) Everything is going along just perfectly until J. Edgar trips and loses the last five magical balloons in all of Lovelyloveville--OH NO! The Oogiloves set out to find the magical balloons in time to save their friend's party. Along the way, they meet some very interesting characters indeed, including Dotty Rounder (Cloris Leachman), Bobby Wobbly (Carey Elwes), Milky Marvin (Chazz Palminteri), Rosalie Rosebud (Toni Braxton) and Lola and Lero Sombero (Christopher Lloyd and Jaime Pressly). Can these new friends help them recover the magical balloons and get back to the cottage in time to celebrate Schluufy's surprise birthday?
Dead Hearts
Cinematography
Once upon a time, in a faraway forest bordered by an icy lake, there lived a witch who hated all mankind. She did not have a heart of her own, and without one, had been cursed to never know love. But having no heart, she was also made immortal , kept from death. Such was the witch's curse that she despised anyone whose heart still beat, and would kill whoever dared set foot in her forest. If she were ever able to love...She would lose her powers and become mortal once more.
Händel: Rodelinda
Director
Renée Fleming stars in the title role of one of Handel’s greatest dramas, seen in Stephen Wadsworth’s 2004 Met premiere production. Rodelinda is faced with an impossible dilemma: With her husband Bertarido believed dead, she either has to marry the despised Grimoaldo (the elegant Joseph Kaiser), who has usurped her husband’s throne, or see him murder her son. But Bertarido (leading countertenor Andreas Scholl) is alive and eventually reclaims both throne and wife—and makes peace with his enemies. Stephanie Blythe is marvelous as Eduige, Bertarido’s sister, who is betrothed to Grimoaldo but turns against him. Baroque authority Harry Bicket conducts.
Liza Minnelli: Liza's at The Palace
Director
The full 2-hour performance of Liza's 2009 concert is available only as a part of this special collector's edition. This exciting midnight performance was recorded at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on October 1, 2009. Act One features favorite songs by Ms. Minnelli. Liza adds a new personal musical introduction to the fond remembrance of famous vaudevillians. Act Two is a very special tribute to Liza's godmother, Kay Thompson, a groundbreaking singer-dancer, songwriter, and vocal arranger/coach at the MGM Studios in the 1940s. This documentary captures Liza Minelli's award-winning 2009 Broadway concert that featured renditions of favorites from throughout her career. The setlist includes "Cabaret," "Liza," and "New York, New York."
Cyrano de Bergerac
Director
The charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves.
Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker
Director
This production of the famous ballet has been reset to take place during the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair.
캠프 락
Director
미치 토레스(데미 로바토)는 일생일대의 기회를 잡게 된다. 유수의 음악 캠프 '캠프락'에 갈 수 있게 된 것. 음악적 재능을 갈고닦기 위해 노력하는 미치는 곧 캠프 참가자들도 못지않게 노력한다는 사실을 알게 된다. 꾸밈없는 자신의 모습을 보여주는 것이 중요하단 걸 깨닫는 미치. 진정한 자신의 모습을 찾고 새로운 영감을 얻기 위해 캠프에 참여한 지도자 셰인 그레이(조 조나스)의 도움으로 미치는 두려움을 넘어서 무대 위의 스포트라이트를 향해 나아간다.
Merry F#%$in' Christmas
Director
Denis Leary and a cast of many others celebrate Christmas Leary-style. Packed with original music and skits, this is a great spin on the usual holiday fluff.
Fosse
Director
Fosse is a three-act musical revue showcasing the choreography of Bob Fosse. The musical was conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr., Chet Walker, and Ann Reinking. It won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2000. In 2002, Fosse, featuring Reinking and Ben Vereen, was aired as part of the "Great Performances — Dance In America" series on PBS television. This filmed Broadway tribute strings together acclaimed director/choreographer Bob Fosse's "greatest hits."
디즈 올드 브로드
Director
Network television executive Gavin hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne, and Addie Holden in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical Boy Crazy is re-released. Though the three women share the same agent, Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
Piano Grand! A Smithsonian Celebration
Director
A musical tribute to the piano's 300th anniversary celebrates the legacy, grandeur and showmanship of this instrument. Hosted by "Piano Man" Billy Joel and taped before a live audience in Washington, D.C., this special mesmerizes audiences with its grand salute.
Crazy For You
Director
Crazy For You is a romantic comedy musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team's 1930 musical Girl Crazy, but incorporates songs from several other productions as well. Crazy For You won the 1992 Tony Award (Broadway), 1993 Olivier Award (London), and 1994 Dora Award (Toronto) for Best Musical. Originally aired on the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 28, episode 2).
Dancemaker
Director
A look at Paul Taylor and his dance company over several months in 1997. Preparation of Taylor's piece, "Piazzolla Caldera," from conception and rehearsals to opening night at City Center, frames the film. The troupe's trip to India falls in the middle. Included are black and white footage of rehearsals, and, in color, interviews with Taylor, his dancers, dance critics and scholars, and those who manage the business side. There is also footage of a younger Taylor dancing and film of the troupe performing a dozen Taylor pieces. His genius, his roots, his method of working with dancers, and his sometimes difficult nature draw the attention of those who comment.
빅터 빅토리아
Director
Out-of-work singer Victoria Grant meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a club in 1920s Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan, falls in love with "him." Filmed live on Broadway, 1995.
The Hard Nut
Director
Adaptation of The Nutcracker by the Mark Morris Dance Group.
San Francisco Ballet - The Nutcracker
Director
This production of the famous ballet has been reset to take place during the 1915 San Francisco World's Fair. From the lovely Waltz of the Flowers to the crystalline beauty of the stunning Snowflake Waltz; each scene is more breathtaking than the last; bringing to life all the well-known and beloved characters with fresh sparkle and compelling originality.