{{Short description|English stage director}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Tim Albery | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|5|20|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | known_for = | education = | alma_mater = | employer = | occupation = | boards = | spouse = | children = | parents = [[Donald Albery]] | relatives = [[Bronson Albery|Sir Bronson Albery]] (grandfather)<br>[[Ian Albery]] (brother)<br>[[Nicholas Albery]] (brother)<br>[[Ivan Albery Powell]] (son) }} '''Tim Bronson Reginald Albery''' (born 20 May 1952) is an English stage director, best known for his productions of opera.
==Life and career== Albery was born in [[Harpenden]], the son of the impresario [[Donald Albery]] and grandson of the producer [[Bronson Albery|Sir Bronson Albery]].<ref name=grove/> Albery's brother was the social inventor [[Nicholas Albery]].<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-75949|isbn = 978-0-19-861412-8|doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/75949|title = The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|year = 2004}}</ref> After directing drama in the British provinces, he directed his first operatic production, [[Benjamin Britten|Britten]]'s ''[[The Turn of the Screw]]'' for a music festival at [[Batignano]], Italy in 1983. For [[Opera North]], Albery directed operas by [[Michael Tippett|Tippett]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]] and most notably [[Hector Berlioz|Berlioz]]: his production of ''[[Les Troyens]]'' is described by ''[[Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|The New Grove Dictionary of Opera]]'' as "triumphant".<ref name=grove/>
For the [[English National Opera]] (ENO), Albery directed Berlioz’s ''[[Béatrice et Bénédict|Beatrice and Benedict]]'' (1990) and Britten’s ''[[Billy Budd (opera)|Billy Budd]]'' (1988) and ''[[Peter Grimes]]'' (1991).<ref name=grove/> Together with his fellow directors, [[Richard Jones (director)|Richard Jones]], [[Jude Kelly]], [[Phyllida Lloyd]], [[Deborah Warner]] and [[Francesca Zambello]], Albery publicly supported ENO's general director Nicholas Payne in his dispute with the ENO's chairman Martin Smith over avant-garde productions. They wrote, "The aim must be to create a new audience that does not see opera as a middle-class trophy art form: an audience that Payne was beginning to attract to the Coliseum."<ref>Letter to the Editor, ''The Times'', 18 July 2002, p. 23</ref>
For [[Scottish Opera]], Albery directed [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]'s ''[[Der Ring des Nibelungen|Ring]]'' cycle between 1999 and 2003,<ref>Clark, Andrew, "Tim Albery - Fanfare for the common man", ''The Financial Times'', 9 August 2003, p. 28</ref> and Mozart's ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' in 2006.<ref>Ross, Peter. "The Fall and Rise", The Sunday Herald, 7 May 2006, p. 13</ref>
In a partnership with [[Soundstreams Canada|Soundstreams]] and [[Luminato Festival|Luminato]], Albery both Directed and Created ''Hell's Fury'' in 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/review/2019/06/20/hells-fury-is-musical-theatre-that-leaves-a-deep-dent-in-the-heart.html|title=Hell's Fury is musical theatre that leaves a deep dent in the heart {{!}} The Star|newspaper=The Toronto Star|date=20 June 2019|language=en|access-date=2019-06-23}}</ref>
''Grove's Dictionary'' describes Albery's style as "a modern visual and dramatic language that combined stillness, taut economy, intense feeling for states of psychological and poetic complexity, and deep musical responsiveness" creating "a powerful impression of musico-dramatic revelation."<ref name=grove>Loppert Max. [http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O900069 "Albery, Tim"], ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', edited by [[Stanley Sadie]], Grove Music Online, Oxford Music Online, accessed 12 June 2011 {{subscription required}}</ref>
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