{"id":65959,"date":"2015-11-30T09:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65959"},"modified":"2015-11-30T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T15:25:33","slug":"luc-bondy-swiss-opera-theatre-director-dies-of-pneumonia-at-age-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/30\/luc-bondy-swiss-opera-theatre-director-dies-of-pneumonia-at-age-67\/","title":{"rendered":"Luc Bondy, Swiss opera, theatre director, dies of pneumonia at age 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_65960\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65960\" style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Luc_Bondy_-_Nestroy-Theaterpreis_2013_a_crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65960\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Luc_Bondy_-_Nestroy-Theaterpreis_2013_a_crop.jpg\" alt=\"World-renowned director Luc Bondy (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"455\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Luc_Bondy_-_Nestroy-Theaterpreis_2013_a_crop.jpg 455w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Luc_Bondy_-_Nestroy-Theaterpreis_2013_a_crop-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65960\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">World-renowned director Luc Bondy (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luc_Bondy\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN \u2013 Luc Bondy, a Swiss opera, theatre and film director who staged productions on renowned stages across Europe and the United States, has died. He was 67.<\/p>\n<p>The Odeon Theatre in Paris, where Bondy last worked, announced his death Saturday, saying he died of pneumonia.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Metropolitan Opera, in an obituary on its homepage, wrote that Bondy\u2019s direction \u201cwas notable for its psychological insight, clarity, and vivid theatricality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bondy staged celebrated productions at the world\u2019s leading opera houses including Milan\u2019s La Scala, the Paris Opera and the Salzburg Festivals.<\/p>\n<p>His career also spanned decades of theatre productions in Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich, London and elsewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Odeon Theatre praised Bondy for his \u201ccreative genius, erudition, his love for the actors and the audience, his humanity and his liberty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2013 Luc Bondy, a Swiss opera, theatre and film director who staged productions on renowned stages across Europe and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-65959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}