John Dexter

Nascimento : 1925-08-02, Derby, Derbyshire, England

Morte : 1990-03-23

Filmes

Piratas do Caribe: No Fim do Mundo
Supervising Art Director
Will Turner e Elizabeth Swann unem forças com o Capitão Barbossa para libertarem Jack Sparrow da prisão de Davy Jones. Enquanto isso, a tripulação do barco fantasma O Holandês Voador causa estragos nos Sete Mares. Os amigos devem navegar através de águas perigosas para enfrentarem o pirata chinês São Feng e, finalmente, eles devem escolher em que lado ficar na batalha, pois a vida do pirata está em jogo.
Desventuras em Série
Gustav
Klaus (Liam Aiken), Violet (Emily Browning) e Sunny (Kara Hoffman e Shelby Hoffman) são três irmãos que repentinamente recebem a notícia de que seus pais morreram em um incêndio. Como são menores de idade eles não podem ainda herdar a fortuna de seus pais, o que apenas ocorrerá quando Violet, a mais velha, completar 18 anos. O trio passa então a morar com o Conde Olaf (Jim Carrey), um parente distante bastante ganancioso, que deseja tomar a fortuna das crianças para si. Para atingir sua meta Olaf não medirá consequências.
Don Carlo
Director
Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vocal and expressive demands of their roles. Louis Quilico was never quite in that league, and he sounds a bit spread and woofy in places here, but he works hard and effectively to bring Rodrigo to life. Placido Domingo recorded his first Don Carlo, for EMI with Giulini, about 15 years before this production, but he looks and sounds fine here -- in the early 1980's he was doing very good Otellos and Lohengrins too, and Furlanetto, still in his 30's, brings a rich, young voice to an old part and succeeds in making the Grand Inquisitor vocally as well as expressively formidable. Levine brings both weight and energy to the score, and that reading fits well with the overall "traditional" design and production -- the Met's wardrobe budget must have been severely taxed, but everybody looks splendid.
Rigoletto
Production Design
The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly alternate with scenes of darkness and squalor. From sumptuous interiors, we move to a dark street, a lonely inn. The secondary figures are astutely counterpoised: the plotting courtiers against the plotting Sparafucile and Maddalena (also ambiguously tender-hearted). When Rigoletto says "Pari siamo", he could be expressing the motto of the whole work: the beautiful and the ugly can be equally good, equally evil.
Rigoletto
Director
The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly alternate with scenes of darkness and squalor. From sumptuous interiors, we move to a dark street, a lonely inn. The secondary figures are astutely counterpoised: the plotting courtiers against the plotting Sparafucile and Maddalena (also ambiguously tender-hearted). When Rigoletto says "Pari siamo", he could be expressing the motto of the whole work: the beautiful and the ugly can be equally good, equally evil.
L'Elisir d'Amore
Director
Live performance Met 1981.
Don Carlo
Director
Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabbles and intrigue. The Spanish Inquisition tries to exert its influence. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where heretics are to be burned at the stake
Don Pasquale
Director
This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met as Norina, the smart young widow at the center of Donizetti’s comedy. The sensational Alfredo Kraus sings her beloved Ernesto. Håkan Hagegård, in his Met debut role and season, is Dr. Malatesta, the man who helps the young couple trick the crusty old bachelor of the title (Gabriel Bacquier at his comical best) into a fake marriage. This being a Donizetti comedy, it all turns out perfectly well at the end—and getting there is pure operatic fun.
Rigoletto
Director
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A vengeful but misguided court jester strives to save his daughter from a duke’s licentious clutches, but can't part with the feeling that a curse looms over all of his actions. In Rigoletto, the composer introduces several of his most iconic arias and duets—as well as an 11th-hour quartet that counts among the finest moments in opera.
I Want What I Want
Director
Roy leaves his abusive father's house and starts life anew as a woman, named Wendy. Through trial and error she learns the skills and consequences of being a woman.
The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker
Director
After a young man graduates from a prestigious college, he rebels by preferring a carefree existence rather than the life of fighting the rungs within the treacherous American corporate ladder. For his means of survival he becomes a New York cab driver.
The Virgin Soldiers
Director
The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.