As director of the festival, Wolfgang commissioned work from many guest producers, including innovative and controversial stagings such as the 1976 production of the Ring Cycle by Patrice Chéreau.

Earlier in the autumn season of 1970 a controversial new staging of Hamlet caused outrage in the press for the nudity and alternative acting styles of the Company.

The modernist design of the new opera house reflected the repertoire that was to characterise the post-war company which has premiered many new operas (normally one per season) and produced controversial stagings of older works.

His first drama Kreuzweg (1921) fell flat and was delisted after only three performances, and when he was chosen as dramatic adviser at the theatre of Kiel, he lost his new job after his first, controversial staging of Terence's The Eunuch.

His work there included a highly controversial staging of Strauss' Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí and also an effective re-staging of Puccini's La Boheme using sets dating from 1899.

Many musicals in New York City became seminal national cultural events, like the controversial 1937 staging of Marc Blitzstein's labor union opera The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles and produced by John Houseman.

Look, Ma, nobody's responsible for this production, which reappears this season still further modified from the original, controversial staging by Graham Vick.

Sharman created a series of ground-breaking productions of experimental theatre, many for the Old Tote Theatre Company, culminating in a controversial staging of Mozart's Don Giovanni for Opera Australia at the age of 21.

Was it harder to get into "Miss Saigon" or Peter Martins's controversial but fabulous staging of "The Sleeping Beauty" over the weekend?

Thanks to Deborah Warner's controversial staging, it's more a theatrical event than a standard concert, and the song cycle is a great vehicle for Ian, whose clear, honest sound is perfect for this affecting material.