Tony Palmer
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Related e |
Featured: |
Tony Palmer (born 29 August 1941 in London) is a British film director and author. His work includes over 100 films, ranging from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher (Irish Tour '74) and Frank Zappa (200 Motels), to his classical portraits which include profiles of Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn, John Osborne, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Yehudi Menuhin, Carl Orff, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is also a stage director of theatre and opera.
Among over 40 international prizes for his work are 12 Gold Medals from the New York Film Festival as well as numerous BAFTAs and Emmy Awards. Palmer has won the Prix Italia twice, for A Time There Was in 1980 and At the Haunted End of the Day in 1981. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and an honorary citizen of both New Orleans and Athens.
Contents |
Filmography
- Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (TV) (as director's assistant – Director Ken Russell) (1966)
- Alice in Wonderland (TV) [as Producer – Director Jonathan Miller] (1966)
- The Art of Conducting – with Georg Solti (1966)
- Up the Theatre – with Judi Dench (1966)
- Conceit (1967)
- Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967)
- Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)
- Corbusier (1967)
- Twice a Fortnight (TV series) – with Terry Jones & Michael Palin (1967)
- All My Loving (1968)
- Cream's Farewell Concert (1968)
- The World of Peter Sellers (1969)
- How It Is (1969)
- Rope Ladder to the Moon – Jack Bruce (1969)
- Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (1970)
- Fairport Convention & Matthews Southern Comfort (1970)
- Glad All Over (1970)
- National Youth Theatre – Michael Croft (1970)
- 200 Motels – Frank Zappa (1971)
- Brighton Breezy (1971)
- Mahler 9 – with Leonard Bernstein (1971)
- Ginger Baker in Africa (1971)
- Birmingham (1971)
- The Pursuit of Happiness (1972)
- The World of Liberace (1972)
- The World of Hugh Hefner (1973)
- International Youth Orchestra (1973)
- Bird on a Wire – with Leonard Cohen (1974)
- Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour '74 (1974)
- The World of Miss World (1974)
- Tangerine Dream – live at Coventry Cathedral (1975)
- All This and World War II (1976)
- All You Need is Love (1976–1980)
- The Wigan Casino (1977)
- Biddu (1977)
- The Edinburgh Festival (1977)
- The Mighty Wurlitzer (1978)
- The Edinburgh Festival Revisited (1978)
- The Space Movie – NASA's official 10th anniversary film, music by Mike Oldfield (1979)
- Pride of Place [6 parts] (1979)
- A Time There Was – profile of Benjamin Britten (1979)
- First Edition (1980)
- At the Haunted End of the Day – profile of William Walton (1980)
- Death in Venice – opera by Benjamin Britten (1981)
- Once, at a Border... – profile of Igor Stravinsky (1982)
- Wagner – by Charles Wood, starring Richard Burton (1983)
- Primal Scream – Art Janov (1984)
- Puccini – with Virginia McKenna & Robert Stephens (1984)
- God Rot Tunbridge Wells! – by John Osborne (1984/5)
- Mozart in Japan – with Mitsuko Uchida (1986)
- Testimony – starring Ben Kingsley (1987)
- Maria Callas (1987)
- In From The Cold? – Richard Burton (1988)
- Dvorak - In Love? – Julian Lloyd Webber (1988)
- Hindemith – a Pilgrim's Progress – with John Gielgud (1989)
- The Children (1990)
- Menuhin, a Family Story (1990)
- I, Berlioz – with Corin Redgrave (1992)
- Symphony of Sorrowful Songs – Henryk Górecki (1993)
- A Short Film About Loving – with Peter Sellars (1994)
- O Fortuna – Carl Orff (1995)
- England, My England – Henry Purcell (1995)
- Brahms & The Little Singing Girls (1996)
- Michael Crawford, a true story (1996)
- Hail Bop – a profile of John Adams (1997)
- Parsifal – with Plácido Domingo & Valery Gergiev (1997)
- The Harvest of Sorrow – Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the Kirov Opera (1998)
- The Kindness of Strangers – André Previn (1998)
- Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin (1999)
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka – Chopin, with Penelope Wilton (1999)
- Foreign Aids – Pieter-Dirk Uys on tour (2001)
- Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002)
- Hero – The Story of Bobby Moore – produced by David Frost (2002)
- Toward the Unknown Region – Malcolm Arnold. A Story of Survival (2003)
- John Osborne & The Gift of Friendship (2003)
- Ivry Gitlis & The Great Tradition (2004)
- The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid (2005)
- Margot – Margot Fonteyn (2005)
- The Salzburg Festival – A Brief History (2006)
- "O Thou Transcendent..." – The Life of Vaughan Williams (2007)
- Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)
List of opera and theatre works
- Turandot – Puccini – Scottish Opera (1984)
- I Cavalieri di Ekebu – Zandonai – Krefeld (1985)
- Peter Grimes – Britten – Zurich (1989)
- West German premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace – Karlsruhe (1990)
- The Trojans – Berlioz – Zurich (1990)
- Peter Grimes – Britten – Geneva (1991)
- Simone Boccanegra – Verdi – Hamburg (1991)
- La Forza del Destino – Verdi – Zurich (1991)
- Dimitrij – Dvořák – Munich (1992)
- Dialogues of the Carmelites – Poulenc – Augsburg (1994)
- Russian premiere of Parsifal – Wagner – Mariinsky/Kirov, St. Petersburg (1997) (Winner of The Golden Mask)
- Parsifal – Bolshoi, Moscow (1998) (Winner of the Casta Diva prize)
- Parsifal – Savonlinna (1998)
- Tristan und Isolde – Wagner – Ravello (1998)
- Die Walküre – Wagner – Ravello (1999)
- The Death of Klinghoffer – John Adams – Helsinki (2001)
- The Fair at Sorochyntsi – Mussorgsky – Bonn (2007)
Books
- Born Under a Bad Sign (1970)
- The Trials of Oz (1971)
- Electric Revolution (1971)
- The Things I Love – Liberace (1976)
- All You Need Is Love (1976)
- Charles II: Portrait of an Age (1979)
- Julian Bream: A Life on the Road. London: Macdonald, 1982. Template:ISBN. Text by Palmer, photographs by Daniel Meadows.
- Menuhin: A Family Story (1991)
Pages linking in Dec 2021
200 Motels, All This and World War II, All You Need Is Love, All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music, André Previn, Anthony Palmer (disambiguation), Benjamin Britten, Bessie Smith, Carl Orff, Charles Wood (playwright), Christopher Palmer, Colosseum and Juicy Lucy, Daniel Meadows, Death in Venice (opera), Déjàvu, Dvořák - In Love?, Earls Court 1975, Edith Wharton, England, My England, Fairport Convention, Farewell Concert, Feliks Topolski, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Frank Zappa, Geoffrey Cannon, Geraldine Chaplin, Gidi Avivi, Ginger Baker, God Rot Tunbridge Wells!, Gottfried Wagner, Guy Henry (actor), Howard Shelley, Incantations (album), Irish Tour '74 (film), Ivry Gitlis, Jack Bruce, John Gielgud, Julian Bream, Kim Novak, László Gálffi, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, Live Songs, Live! (Fela Kuti album), Margaret Fingerhut, Margot Fonteyn, Maria Callas, Mark Leckey, Mark Thompson (media executive), Marthe Keller, Matthews Southern Comfort, Maurice Cowling, Mike Oldfield discography, Music journalism, Ommadawn, Only a Northern Song, Ormiston Denes Academy, Oz (magazine), Palmer (surname), Parsifal, Peter Shaw (producer, born 1942), Portsmouth (instrumental), Prix Italia, Ralph Richardson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Gard (tenor), Rory Gallagher, Songs of Love and Hate, Sound Venture, Stephen Oliver (composer), Stomu Yamashta, Susana, Lady Walton, Testimony (1988 film), Testimony (Volkov book), The Beatles (album), The Children (1990 film), The Elstree Project, The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams), The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, The Marlowe Society, The Mothers of Invention, The South Bank Show, The Space Movie, The Spectator, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Twice a Fortnight, Václav Neumann, Valentina Igoshina, Vittorio Storaro filmography, Wagner (film), Wendy Ellis Somes, Wieland Wagner, William Walton, Wilma Lipp, Work song, Yellow Submarine (album), You Can't Do That