Jonathan Kent
Know for: Directing
Born: 1949-06-19
Place of birth: Lewisham, London, England, UK
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Love's Labour's Lost (1985)
When the King of Navarre and three of his cronies swear to spend all their days in study and not to look at any girls, they've forgotten that the...
Carpathian Eagle (1980)
Murder victims are being found with the hearts cut out. A police detective is assigned to find and stop the killer. Originally an episode of British...
Baal (1982)
Baal is an amoral poetic genius who, after a life of debauchery, betrayal and violence, is about to cut his ties to the world and meet his doom. A...
Tosca (2011)
The star singers in this revival of the 2006 production were Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann and Bryn Terfel; the Royal Opera Chorus and the...
A German Life (2022)
Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
A German Life (2022)
Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
National Theatre Live: The Seagull (2016)
On a summer’s day in a makeshift theatre by a lake, Konstantin’s cutting-edge new play is performed, changing the lives of everyone...
Purcell: The Fairy Queen (2009)
Jonathan Kent's spectacular production of Purcell's huge semi-opera is joyous, imaginative and witty. Glyndebourne, with its intimate auditorium,...
Puccini Manon Lescaut (2015)
The French tale of a beautiful young woman destroyed by her conflicting needs for love and luxury.
Manon Lescaut (2014)
Manon Lescaut's production was updated and it worked. Highly professional production with two of the best performances I've ever witnessed in any...
Long Day's Journey into Night (2025)
Over the course of a day, a married couple, Mary and James Tyrone, and their two sons, Jamie and Edmund, grapple with Mary's morphine addiction and...
Gypsy (2015)
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the...
Mozart's Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Festival 2010 (2010)
Mozart's second collaboration with the mercurial librettist Lorenzo da Ponte is among the very blackest of black comedies. Glyndebourne welcomes back...
The ROH Live: Tosca (2018)
The painter Mario Cavaradossi helps a fugitive escape – and so attracts the attention of Scarpia, the sadistic Chief of Police. Scarpia...
Gypsy (2015)
Gypsy's mother Rose dreams of a life in show business for her daughters, but Louise becomes a huge burlesque star. Stage musical loosely based on the...
The Turn of the Screw (2011)
A remote English country house, and old and faithful housekeeper, two young orphan children and an eager new governess sent down from London to look...
Die Frau ohne Schatten (2013)
In October 2013, the Mariinsky label releases a DVD & Blu-ray of Strauss most Wagnerian of operas, Die Frau ohne Schatten. Filmed in the historic...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2012)
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt...
Manon Lescaut (2016)
"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Experience Puccini's third opera and first big...
Manon Lescaut (2016)
"Manon Lescaut is a heroine I believe in," wrote Giacomo Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi. Experience Puccini's third opera and first big...
Private Lives (2013)
Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne are glamorous, rich, reckless…and divorced. Five years later, their love for one another is unexpectedly...