He soon moved to the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and then to the Royal Opera House, where, as production director, she directed La Boheme and Salome in the late 1940s.
Brooks was then director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
He later told the BBC that he believed British post-war theater had become “old-fashioned, stereotyped and in the hands of a small number of very conventional people who did Shakespeare in the most boring way imaginable”.
Director Alvis Hermanis writes on his Instagram: “Peter Brook is dead. at the age of 97. When I studied, he was authority no. 1 for all of us. After that, there was a chance to get to know each other in person. Among other things, he told me that both parents came from Latvian Jews (from Jelgava and Daugavpils). He taught us to see the difference between dead theater and living theater. “The empty space.” That was the name of his first book.”
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