Brian Large

Biography

Career Overview

Brian Large has 194 screen credits in a career dating back to 1969. Signature works include New Year's Concert 2003, La Bohème, La Fanciulla del West. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

194

Birth Date

1939-02-16 00:00:00

Birth Place

London, England, UK

Known For

• 

  New Year's Concert 2003
• 

  La Bohème
• 

  La Fanciulla del West
• 

  Aida
• 

  The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
• 

  New Year's Concert 2011 - Vienna Philharmonic

Frequent Collaborators

• Plácido Domingo (2 collaborations)
• Sherrill Milnes (2 collaborations)
• Charles Anthony (2 collaborations)
• Richard Vernon (2 collaborations)
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1 collaborations)
• Vienna Philharmonic (1 collaborations)
• Ileana Cotrubas (1 collaborations)
• Neil Shicoff (1 collaborations)
• Marilyn Zschau (1 collaborations)
• Thomas Allen (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (185 credits)

  • New Year's Concert 2011 - Vienna Philharmonic

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Don Giovanni

    director

    directing
    2018
  • Jonas Kaufmann: An Evening with Puccini

    director

    directing
    2015
  • A Recital with Renée Fleming: Vienna at the Turn of the 20th Century

    director

    directing
    2014
  • Arabella

    director

    directing
    2014
  • Parsifal live at the Salzburg Easter Festival

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Capriccio

    director

    directing
    2013
  • MARISS JANSONS CONDUCTS - BEETHOVEN & STRAUSS

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Salzburg Festival 2012 Wiener Philharmoniker

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Die Tote Stadt

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Jewels - Mariinsky Ballet

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Donizetti: Anna Bolena

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-3

    director

    directing
    2011
  • New Year's Concert 2011

    director

    directing
    2011
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov

    director

    directing
    2010
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet

    director

    directing
    2010
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Hamlet

    director

    directing
    2010
  • In Concert at The Met

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: The Inaugural Concert

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Gurrelieder

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Don Giovanni

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Lucrezia Borgia

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Strauss R: Der Rosenkavalier

    director

    directing
    2009
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's La Rondine

    director

    directing
    2009
  • New Year's Concert 2009

    director

    directing
    2009
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni

    director

    directing
    2008
  • 1984

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Lohengrin: Bayreuth Festival Opera

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Verdi: Otello

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Manon Lescaut – The Met

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Pierre Fournier: Classic Archive

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker 2008

    director

    directing
    2008
  • Simon Boccanegra: Royal Opera House

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Eugene Onegin

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

    director

    directing
    2007
  • The First Emperor

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Norma

    director

    directing
    2007
  • New Year's Concert: 2007 - Vienna Philharmonic

    director

    directing
    2007
  • La Clemenza di Tito

    director

    directing
    2006
  • The Marriage of Figaro

    director

    directing
    2006
  • A Mozart Gala from Salzburg

    director

    directing
    2006
  • La Traviata

    director

    directing
    2006
  • Tosca

    director

    directing
    2005
  • La traviata

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Roberto Devereux

    director

    directing
    2005
  • New Year's Concert 2005

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Der Rosenkavalier

    director

    directing
    2004
  • Rodelinda

    director

    directing
    2004
  • L'Upupa & Der Triumph der Sohnesliebe

    director

    directing
    2003
  • New Year's Concert 2003

    director

    directing
    2003
  • Turandot

    director

    directing
    2002
  • L'Orfeo

    director

    directing
    2002
  • Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades

    director

    directing
    2002
  • Il Trovatore

    director

    directing
    2002
  • New Year's Concert 2002

    director

    directing
    2002
  • Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Mozart: Don Giovanni (Zurich Opera House)

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Nabucco

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Little Women

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Rinaldo - Bayerische Staatsoper

    director

    directing
    2001
  • Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

    director

    directing
    2000
  • The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

    director

    directing
    2000
  • Viva Vivaldi

    director

    directing
    2000
  • Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)

    director

    directing
    2000
  • Beethoven: Fidelio

    director

    directing
    2000
  • Tristan und Isolde

    director

    directing
    1999
  • Waldbühne Berlin: Russian Night

    director

    directing
    1999
  • Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne

    director

    directing
    1999
  • La Rondine

    director

    directing
    1998
  • Samson et Dalila

    director

    directing
    1998
  • Bartoli in Italy

    director

    directing
    1998
  • The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    director

    directing
    1998
  • Tristan und Isolde

    director

    directing
    1998
  • La Cenerentola

    director

    directing
    1997
  • Le Comte Ory

    director

    directing
    1997
  • Mazeppa

    director

    directing
    1997
  • Fedora

    director

    directing
    1997
  • Andrea Chénier

    director

    directing
    1996
  • Europakonzert 1996 from St. Petersburg

    director

    directing
    1996
  • Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary

    director

    directing
    1996
  • Così fan tutte

    director

    directing
    1996
  • The Rake’s Progress

    director

    directing
    1996
  • Otello

    director

    directing
    1995
  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    director

    directing
    1995
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

    director

    directing
    1995
  • The Makropulos Case

    director

    directing
    1995
  • Arabella

    director

    directing
    1994
  • Il Tabarro & Pagliacci

    director

    directing
    1994
  • Sadko

    director

    directing
    1994
  • Elektra

    director

    directing
    1994
  • European Concert 1994

    director

    directing
    1994
  • Puccini: Turandot (San Francisco Opera)

    director

    directing
    1994
  • The Fiery Angel

    director

    directing
    1993
  • Stiffelio - The Met

    director

    directing
    1993
  • The Maid of Orleans

    director

    directing
    1993
  • Richard Wagner: Parsifal

    director

    directing
    1993
  • Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca

    director

    directing
    1993
  • Falstaff

    director

    directing
    1993
  • Otello

    director

    directing
    1992
  • La Fanciulla del West

    director

    directing
    1992
  • The Ghosts of Versailles

    director

    directing
    1992
  • Die Frau ohne Schatten

    director

    directing
    1992
  • Carlos Kleiber New Year’s Concert 1992

    director

    directing
    1992
  • A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert

    director

    directing
    1991
  • L'Elisir d'Amore

    director

    directing
    1991
  • The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991

    director

    directing
    1991
  • Un Ballo in Maschera

    director

    directing
    1991
  • New Year's Concert 1991

    director

    directing
    1991
  • Semiramide

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Spirituals in Concert

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Giuseppe Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera

    director

    directing
    1990
  • The Original Three Tenors Concert

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Götterdämmerung

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Das Rheingold

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Don Giovanni

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Die Walküre

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Siegfried

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Lohengrin

    director

    directing
    1990
  • New Year's Concert 1990

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman Sing Spirituals at Carnegie Hall

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Il Re Pastore

    director

    directing
    1989
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Aida

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Aida

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Adriana Lecouvreur

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Bluebeard’s Castle / Erwartung (The Met)

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Khovanshchina

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Elektra

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Carmen

    director

    directing
    1988
  • The Met - Il Barbiere di Siviglia

    director

    directing
    1988
  • Il Trovatore

    director

    directing
    1988
  • Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    director

    directing
    1988
  • La Boheme

    director

    directing
    1988
  • Ariadne auf Naxos

    director

    directing
    1988
  • Meyerbeer: L'Africaine

    director

    directing
    1988
  • Verdi: Macbeth

    director

    directing
    1987
  • Horowitz in Vienna

    director

    directing
    1987
  • Wozzeck

    director

    directing
    1987
  • Horowitz in Moscow

    director

    directing
    1986
  • L'italiana in Algeri

    director

    directing
    1986
  • Lohengrin

    director

    directing
    1986
  • Die Fledermaus

    director

    directing
    1986
  • Nabucco

    director

    directing
    1986
  • Cardillac

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Don Carlo

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Il Trovatore

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Andrea Chénier - La Scala

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Der Rosenkavalier

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Aida

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Der fliegende Holländer

    director

    directing
    1985
  • American Ballet Theatre in San Francisco

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Simon Boccanegra

    director

    directing
    1984
  • Francesca da Rimini

    director

    directing
    1984
  • Don Quixote (Kitri's Wedding), A Ballet In Three Acts

    director

    directing
    1984
  • Les Sylphides

    director

    directing
    1984
  • American Ballet Theatre at the Met

    director

    directing
    1984
  • I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata

    director

    directing
    1984
  • Manon Lescaut

    director

    directing
    1983
  • Berlioz: Les Troyens

    director

    directing
    1983
  • Il Trittico

    director

    directing
    1983
  • Manon Lescaut

    director

    directing
    1983
  • Don Carlo

    director

    directing
    1983
  • Madama Butterfly

    director

    directing
    1983
  • Turandot

    director

    directing
    1983
  • The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser

    director

    directing
    1982
  • The Magic Flute

    director

    directing
    1982
  • La Bohème

    director

    directing
    1982
  • Falstaff

    director

    directing
    1982
  • Aida - San Francisco Opera

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Verdi: Rigoletto

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Les Contes d'Hoffmann

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Nabucco

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Aida

    director

    directing
    1981
  • La Traviata - The Met

    director

    directing
    1981
  • Wagner: Das Rheingold

    director

    directing
    1980
  • Wagner: Die Walküre

    director

    directing
    1980
  • Wagner: Siegfried

    director

    directing
    1980
  • Wagner: Götterdämmerung

    director

    directing
    1980
  • Un Ballo in Maschera

    director

    directing
    1980
  • Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

    director

    directing
    1979
  • Beethoven Piano Concertos 1-5

    director

    directing
    1974
  • Owen Wingrave

    director

    directing
    1971
  • Peter Grimes

    director

    directing
    1969
  • Idomeneo

    director

    directing
    1969

• actors (2 credits)

  • Leoš Janáček – velký příběh 20. století

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2020
  • Wagner: The Making of The Ring

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1983

• camera (5 credits)

  • Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

    director of photography

    camera
    2014
  • La Bohème

    director of photography

    camera
    2012
  • The Magic Flute

    director of photography

    camera
    2006
  • Neujahrskonzert 2004

    director of photography

    camera
    2004
  • Die Entführung aus dem Serail

    director of photography

    camera
    1989

• production (2 credits)

  • Carlos Kleiber New Year’s Concert 1992

    director of operations

    production
    1992
  • Il Trovatore

    producer

    production
    1988