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Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Wolfe Miller CBE (21 July 1934 – 27 November 2019) was an English theatre and opera director, actor, author, television presenter, humourist and physician. After training in medicine and specialising in neurology in the late 1950s, he came to prominence in the early 1960s in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe with Peter Cook, Dudley Moore and Alan Bennett.
Miller began directing operas in the 1970s. His 1982 production of a "Mafia"-styled Rigoletto was set in 1950s Little Italy, Manhattan. In its early days, he was an associate director at the National Theatre. He later ran the Old Vic Theatre. As a writer and presenter of more than a dozen BBC documentaries, Miller became a television personality and public intellectual in Britain and the United States.
As director
Così fan tutte - ROH
The Mikado
Nabucco
Tamerlano
Le Nozze di Figaro
The Saint Matthew Passion
La Fanciulla Del West
Dialogue in the Dark
Candide
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Prisoner of Consciousness
The Beggar's Opera
King Lear
Troilus & Cressida
Antony & Cleopatra
Timon of Athens
Othello
The Taming of the Shrew
Pleasure at Her Majesty's
King Lear
Take a Girl Like You
Whistle and I'll Come to You
Alice in Wonderland
The Drinking Party
As actor
Discovering Hamlet
The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge
Ghosts in the Machine
Peter Cook: At a Slight Angle to the Universe
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook
The English National Opera Rehearse The Mikado
West Side Stories
The Zoo in Winter
The Evacuees
One Way Pendulum
Beyond the Fringe