- Ms. Zambello has been awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and the Russian Federation's medal for Service to Culture. Other honors for her work include Olivier Awards, Evening Standard Awards and French Grand Prix des Critiques, Japanese Golden Prize, and the Helpmann Award.
Works for the current season include "Cyrano de Bergerac"for the Metropolitan Opera with Placido Domingo, "Love of Three Oranges" for Australian Opera and a film for the BBC of the children's opera by Rachel Portman, "The Little Prince". Projects this past season included "Die Walküre" for the Washington Opera, "Tibet Through the Red Box", a new play by David Henry Hwang and "Fiery Angel" for the Bolshoi. Prior seasons have included "West Side Story" for the floating stage in Bregenz and "Aladdin: the Musical" for Disneyland.
Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Tobias Picker's opera "An American Tragedy" for the Metropolitan Opera, "Porgy and Bess" for the Kennedy Center and a new Disney musical.
An American who grew up in Europe, she attended Moscow University and Colgate University. She began her career as an Assistant Director to the late Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. From 1984-1991, she was the Artistic Director of the Skylight Music Theater.
- IMDb mini biography by: William Morris Agency
- Parents
- Daughter of Jean Sincere.
- American director, co-artistic director of the Skylight Opera Theater in Milwaukee from 1985 to 1990.
- She was nominated for a 1998 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera of 1997 for directing the Royal Opera's "Paul Bunyan".
- Washington, DC, USA: Named artistic adviser to the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- Washington, DC, USA: Named artistic director of the Washington National Opera; will assume duties 1 January 2013.
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