David McVicar

Biography

Career Overview

David McVicar has 47 screen credits in a career dating back to 2001. Signature works include Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda @ Teatro Real, Madrid, Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail, Faust. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

Known Credits

47

Birth Place

Glasgow, Scotland

Known For

• 

  Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda @ Teatro Real, Madrid
• 

  Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail
• 

  Faust
• 

  Royal Ballet & Opera 2025/26: The Magic Flute
• 

  The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca
• 

  Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro

Frequent Collaborators

• Huw Montague Rendall (2 collaborations)
• Lisette Oropesa (1 collaborations)
• Aigul Akhmetshina (1 collaborations)
• Ismael Jordi (1 collaborations)
• Roberto Tagliavini (1 collaborations)
• Andrzej Filończyk (1 collaborations)
• Elissa Pfaender (1 collaborations)
• José Miguel Pérez-Sierra (1 collaborations)
• Orchester des Teatro Real (1 collaborations)
• Chor des Teatro Real (1 collaborations)

Credits

• directing (43 credits)

  • Royal Ballet & Opera 2025/26: The Magic Flute

    director

    directing
    2026
  • Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda @ Teatro Real, Madrid

    stage director

    directing
    2024
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Royal Opera House Live 2024/25: The Marriage of Figaro

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier

    director

    directing
    2024
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier : Médée

    director

    directing
    2024
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Fedora

    director

    directing
    2023
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Medea

    stage director

    directing
    2022
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Don Carlos

    stage director

    directing
    2022
  • Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro

    director

    directing
    2022
  • Verdi: Macbeth

    stage director

    directing
    2021
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina

    director

    directing
    2020
  • The Marriage of Figaro - ROH

    director

    directing
    2019
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Adriana Lecouvreur

    director

    directing
    2019
  • Ariodante - Wiener Staatsoper

    director

    directing
    2018
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca

    stage director

    directing
    2018
  • Gloriana

    stage director

    directing
    2018
  • The ROH Live: Rigoletto

    director

    directing
    2017
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Norma

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Royal Opera House: The Magic Flute

    director

    directing
    2017
  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - The San Francisco Opera

    director

    directing
    2015
  • The Royal Opera: The Marriage Of Figaro

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Royal Opera House: Andrea Chernier

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail

    stage director

    directing
    2015
  • Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail

    stage director

    directing
    2015
  • Les Troyens - San Francisco Opera

    director

    directing
    2015
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci

    director

    directing
    2015
  • Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

    director

    directing
    2013
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Maria Stuarda

    director

    directing
    2013
  • Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Les Troyens

    director

    directing
    2012
  • Rigoletto

    director

    directing
    2012
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Faust (The Royal Opera House)

    director

    directing
    2011
  • Adriana Lecouvreur

    director

    directing
    2010
  • Royal Opera House: Salomé

    stage director

    directing
    2008
  • Natalie Dessay & Rolando Villazón - Massenet: Manon

    director

    directing
    2007
  • Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro

    stage director

    directing
    2006
  • Giulio Cesare

    director

    directing
    2005
  • Faust

    director

    directing
    2004
  • The Magic Flute

    director

    directing
    2003
  • Carmen

    director

    directing
    2002
  • Rigoletto

    director

    directing
    2001

• art (4 credits)

  • The Metropolitan Opera: Agrippina

    production design

    art
    2020
  • The Met — Il Trovatore

    production design

    art
    2015
  • The Metropolitan Opera: Giulio Cesare

    production design

    art
    2013
  • Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro

    production design

    art
    2006