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    Gerard Alfons August, Baron Mortier (25 November 1943 – 8 March 2014) was a Belgian opera director and administrator of Flemish origin. Born in Ghent...
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    Édouard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier, Duke of Treviso (French: [adɔlf edwaʁ kazimiʁ ʒozɛf mɔʁtje]; 13 February 1768 – 28 July 1835), was a French military...
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  • Dutch–Austrian physician Gerard Joling (born 1960), Dutch pop singer Gerard Mortier (1943–2014), Belgian opera director and administrator Gerard Nolan (1946–1992)...
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  • "Brokeback Mountain". They began work on it in 2008 under a commission by Gerard Mortier of the New York City Opera. He took the project with him to the Teatro...
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  • Belgian author Gerard Mortier (1943–2014), Belgian opera director Gilberte Mortier (1907–1991), French freestyle swimmer Hans Mortier (1924–2010), Dutch...
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    Erwin Mortier (born 28 November 1965) is a Dutch-language Belgian author. Spending his youth in Hansbeke, he later moved to nearby Ghent, where he became...
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    Brussels: Schott Frères Mortier, Gerard; Van Dam, José; Piemme, Jean-Marie (1986), Opera tot theater maken: het team van Gerard Mortier in de Munt (in Dutch)...
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    season. When General Manager designate Gerard Mortier withdrew from NYCO, the revival, along with the rest of Mortier's programming, was canceled. The team...
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  • Real in Madrid on January 28, 2014. It was championed by impresario Gerard Mortier, who had commissioned it. A play, based on Annie Proulx's short story...
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    1984. As director of the Oper Frankfurt and with his team including Gerard Mortier (Director of Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Salzburg Festival, Opéra...
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    Having secured an advance commitment from Salzburg Festival director Gerard Mortier to stage the opera, Saariaho began L'Amour de loin in 1999. The SWR...
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    was founded in 2002 by the government of North Rhine-Westphalia with Gerard Mortier, the impresario and former artistic director of the Salzburg Festival...
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  • Rusalka. In 2014, the artistic director of the Teatro Real in Madrid, Gerard Mortier, offered him the title role in Boris Godunov. In 2015, Groissböck sang...
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  • 1989, the festival was drastically modernized and expanded by director Gerard Mortier, who was succeeded by Peter Ruzicka in 2001. In 2006, the festival was...
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    1988, Morris was approached by Gerard Mortier, then the head of the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels. Mortier needed a replacement when Maurice...
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    cousin Nike Wagner and the Belgian opera director and administrator Gerard Mortier, who had placed a late joint bid for the directorship on 24 August....
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    Literature. Hippolyte Metdepenningen (1799–1881), lawyer and politician Gerard Mortier (born 1943), Belgian opera director Jacob Obrecht (ca.1457–1505), composer...
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    National de Paris at Palais Garnier when the theater's general manager was Gerard Mortier. With his next film The White Ribbon (2009) Haneke chose to shoot in...
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    Pieter Mortier, or Pierre Mortier as the publisher of books in French, was the name of three successive generations of booksellers and publishers in the...
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    collaborator Marc di Domenico while the support of the Paris Opera director Gerard Mortier got the project rolling. Basing the production on his eponymous 1988...
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    in 1992. Seeking to broaden audiences for the opera house, director Gérard Mortier advertised for bids in March 2007. In summer 2008 the proposal by Pierre...
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    (1844–1919), mathematician Rudi Mariën, pharmacy, chairman of Innogenetics Gerard Mortier (1943–2014), artistic director Roland Peelman, conductor and musical...
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    was general manager of the RuhrTriennale, following founding director Gerard Mortier. He was artistic director of the Salzburg Festival from 2006 to 2010...
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  • Krasilnikov, 48, Russian Olympic silver-medalist volleyball player (1988). Gerard Mortier, 70, Belgian opera director and administrator, pancreatic cancer. Park...
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    Étienne Maurice Gérard, 1st Comte Gérard (French: [etjɛn mɔʁis ʒeʁaʁ]; 4 April 1773 – 17 April 1852) was a distinguished French general and statesman....
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    uncertainty about the company's future emerged in November 2008, when Gerard Mortier, who was scheduled to begin his first official season as General and...
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  • production directed by Peter Sellars. The production was dedicated to Gerard Mortier, Artistic Director of the Paris Opera. The opera's Finnish premiere...
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    They were chosen ahead of the pair of their cousin, Nike Wagner, and Gerard Mortier, who had placed a late bid for the directorship on 24 August. The conductor...
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    Succeeded by Christian Zacharias Preceded by Luis Antonio García Navarro (1997–2001) Music Director of the Teatro Real 2003–2010 Succeeded by Gerard Mortier...
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  • Preceded by Jean-Paul Cluzel Director of the Paris Opera 1995–2004 Succeeded by Gerard Mortier...
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