Simon Stone

Simon Stone

Nascimento : 1984-08-19, Basel, Switzerland

História

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

Perfil

Simon Stone

Filmes

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.
A Escavação
Director
Às vésperas da Segunda Guerra Mundial, uma rica viúva contrata um arqueólogo amador para escavar sepultamentos ancestrais em sua propriedade. Ao fazerem uma descoberta histórica, os ecos do passado ressoam em um futuro de incertezas.
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.
A Filha
Screenplay
Longe de casa há anos, Christian volta para a cidade de sua família, a fim de comparecer ao casamento do seu pai. Relembrando o passado, ele se reconecta com o seu amigo de infância, Oliver, e a sua família, que o levará a descobrir um segredo há muito tempo enterrado. Enquanto ele tenta corrigir os erros do passado, sua ações ameaçam destruir as vidas daqueles que ele deixou para trás anos antes.
A Filha
Director
Longe de casa há anos, Christian volta para a cidade de sua família, a fim de comparecer ao casamento do seu pai. Relembrando o passado, ele se reconecta com o seu amigo de infância, Oliver, e a sua família, que o levará a descobrir um segredo há muito tempo enterrado. Enquanto ele tenta corrigir os erros do passado, sua ações ameaçam destruir as vidas daqueles que ele deixou para trás anos antes.
A Virada
Director
Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in ordinary people’s lives in a stunning portrait of a small coastal community. As characters face second thoughts and regret, relationships irretrievably alter, resolves are made or broken, and lives change direction forever.
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.
O Coração da Tempestade
Peter
Elizabeth Hunter é uma mulher que sempre controlou a sua vida e que está determinada a continuar a controlar os destinos da sua família e dos seus filhos, mesmo encontrando-se às portas da morte...
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
Durante uma pescaria, Stewart, Carl, Rocco e Billy descobrem o corpo de uma aborígene no rio e só avisam as autoridades três dias depois, quando voltam à cidade. A decisão afeta profundamente suas vidas, principalmente o casamento de Stewart.
Legião de Heróis
Max Scholt
Segunda Guerra Mundial, Austrália está em guerra. Na trila de Kokoda, soldados australianos e japoneses entram em conflito. Um pequeno grupo de combatentes fica sem comunicação e suprimentos após forte bombardeio inimigo. Sem poderem seguir em frente e isolados na selva, eles têm que lutar pela sobrevivência num terreno completamente hostil. Baseado em uma história real.
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.