Whale music anthony minghella biography
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Anthony Minghella
Anthony Minghella was born in 1954 on the Isle of Wight to Italian parents and died in March 2008 at the age of 54. He was married to Carolyn Choa. Writing for Stage, Television and Radio includes: »Whale Music«, »A Little Like Drowning«, »Made in Bangkok«, »What if it's Raining?«, »Cigarettes and Chocolate«, »Hang Up«, »Inspector Morse« and »The Storyteller«. Films as writer and director include: »Truly Madly Deeply«, »The English Patient«, »The Talented Mr Ripley«, »Cold Mountain« and »Breaking And Entering« (which was his first original screenplay for 15 years). In 2005, Anthony directed »Madam Butterfly« for English National Opera at the London Coliseum. It received an Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production and Outstanding Achievement in Opera for Anthony Minghella’s direction and Carolyn Choa’s co-direction and choreography. This production then opened in New York in 2006 at the Metropolitan Opera House. Anthony was awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Hull in 1998, the University of Southampton in 2000 and the University of Bournemouth in 2001. He is the first Freeman of the Isle of Wight. In June 2001, Anthony was awarded a CBE. He was Chairman of the BFI.
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Anthony Minghella
British lp director have a word with writer (1954–2008)
Anthony Minghella CBE | |
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Minghella sight 2004 | |
Born | (1954-01-06)6 Jan 1954 Ryde, Island of Somebody, England |
Died | 18 Step 2008(2008-03-18) (aged 54) London, England |
Alma mater | University do away with Hull |
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Years active | 1975–2008 |
Spouses | Yvonne Millar (divorced)Carolyn Choa (m. 1985) |
Children | 2, including Max |
Relatives | Dominic Minghella (brother) |
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Whale Music by Anthony Minghella
SMBMay 15, 2007
Written, and presumably set, in 1981, Whale Music was Minghella’s first real theatrical success. Telling the story of a somewhat naïve pregnant student and her winter retreat to the coastal town of her birth, it examines the female relationships formed amongst a variety of characters.
False Teeth present an honest and well thought-out production of this slightly dated piece, the actors bringing genuine emotion to somewhat stereotypically written female ‘types’. Caroline (Lauren Dingsdale), pregnant by one of two men, struggles to keep her emotions in check and has fled to a room in the house of the bitter, bohemian Stella (Bella Heard – hope the foot gets better soon!). Their relationship develops strongly, as does that of Caroline with her former schoolmate Fran (Avigail Agam) – the devoted mother struggling to ignore a less than perfect marriage. The three performers played this ‘three ages of women’ sensitively, as Fran and Stella struggle to exert their influence over the malleable Caroline.
On the eve of Caroline’s 21st birthday they are joined by Kate (Sophie Duncan) – Fran and Caroline’s lesbian former English teacher and also landlady to Caroline at university in Leeds – and her energetic, would-be activist,