His most recent opera libretto was The Cutlass Crew, which was premiered by W11 Opera in 2017. Rain Dance with music by Stuart Hancock followed in 2010. Fox (Tobias Picker), Keepers of the Night (Ash), and Letters of A Love Betrayed (Eleanor Alberga) which was presented by Music Theatre Wales at the Royal Opera House in 2009. His other librettos include Fantastic Mr. These include The Golden Ticket, an opera based on Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with music by Peter Ash. He has also directed plays at the Windsor Festival and translated Robert Thomas’s detective comedy Eight Women for the Southwark Playhouse. Three years later, he directed the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s opera Fantastic Mr. In 1995 Sturrock directed an award-winning television version of Little Red Riding Hood with Danny DeVito, Ian Holm and Julie Walters. In 1985, he made a film about Dahl and after the writer’s death, Dahl’s widow, Felicity, invited him to commission a series of new concert works for young people based on her husband’s works. Sturrock has a long relationship with the writing of Roald Dahl. Sturrock has also written and directed a four-part BBC documentary series, Placido Domingo's Tales at the Opera, including films about the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Wiener Staatsoper and the LA Opera, as well as The Art of Singing and the Grammy award nominated The Art of Piano for Ideale Audience and Warner Home Video.
The Broadcasting Writers Guild voted it Best Documentary of 1993. British television at its absolute peak". It was described by David Gritten in the Daily Telegraph as a "towering achievement. This three-hour programme, narrated by Sir Alec Guinness, and first broadcast in 1993, received outstanding reviews. In 1992, he wrote and directed The Graham Greene Trilogy for BBC2's ARENA series. These included After the Storm, an intimate and revealing portrait of the final years of the composer Bela Bartok Six Foot Cinderella, a fantasy about the life of the operatic bass Robert Lloyd and Words Return to Music, an exploration of the life, music and philosophy of the Russian composer Alfred Schnittke. After reading Modern History at Oxford University, he joined BBC Television's Music and Arts Department where he worked as writer, producer and director until 1992.Īt the BBC he worked with many of the world's leading musicians, including Solti, von Karajan, Richter, Menuhin, Gergiev and Tennstedt, making a number of highly-acclaimed music documentaries with them. Donald Sturrock was born in 1961, and grew up in England and South America.
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