Dew, John
Dew, John
Dew, John, English opéra producer and administrator; b. Santiago di Cuba, June 1, 1944. He received training in opéra production in Germany from Walter Felsenstein and Wieland Wagner. In 1971 he began his career with a staging of The Rake’s Progress in Ulm, and then attracted notice with his Mozart and Wagner productions in Krefeld. He was named head of production with the Bielefeld Theater in 1981, where he staged Schreker’s Irrelohe, Brand’s Maschinist Hopkins, Hindemith’s Neues von Tage, and Krenek’s Der Sprung iiber den Schatten. As a guest producer, he staged Neikrug’s Las Alamos at the Berlin Deutsche Oper (1988), Les Huguenots at London’s Covent Garden (1991), Aida at the Hamburg State opéra (1993), and I Puritani at the Vienna State opéra (1994). In 1995 he returned to Hamburg to stage the premiere of Schnittke’s Historia von D. Johann Fausten. From 1995 he was Generalintendant of the Dortmund Theater.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire