{"id":20015,"date":"2025-10-16T11:35:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/cast\/dooner-dan-director\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:41:29","slug":"%d7%93%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%a8-%d7%93%d7%9f-%d7%91%d7%9e%d7%90%d7%99","status":"publish","type":"cast","link":"https:\/\/www.israel-opera.co.il\/en\/cast\/%d7%93%d7%95%d7%a0%d7%a8-%d7%93%d7%9f-%d7%91%d7%9e%d7%90%d7%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Dooner Dan, director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">Dan Dooner was born in Canada. He studied English and drama at the universities of Toronto and London. He is a Staff Director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and has worked extensively all over Europe. He has directed major revivals at Covent Garden including <b>Rigoletto<\/b>, <b>La traviata<\/b>, <b>Simon Boccanegra<\/b>, <b>Un ballo in maschera<\/b> (Verdi), <b>Cosi fan tutte<\/b> (Mozart), <b>Don Pasquale<\/b>, <b>L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore<\/b> (Donizetti) and others. He revived <b>Lohengrin<\/b> (Wagner) in La Scala, <b>Owen Wingrave<\/b> (Britten),<b> K\u00e1t\u2019a Kabanov\u00e1<\/b>, <b>The Makropolus Case<\/b>, <b>Jen\u016ffa<\/b> (Janacek) and Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) in Glyndebourne, <b>Parsifal<\/b> (Wagner) at ENO and many others. In July 2011 he co-directed Nikolaus Lehnhoff\u2019s production of <b>Elektra <\/b>(R. Strauss) at the Salzburg Festival. <\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">At the Israeli Opera he directed:<br \/><b>Jenufa <\/b>(2012) revival director<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Dooner was born in Canada. He studied English and drama at the universities of Toronto and London. 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