Fuad Kavur
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Fuad Kavur (born 1955 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a British opera and film director and producer.
Kavur came to London in 1963 when his uncle, Kemal N. Kavur, was the Turkish ambassador to the Court of St. James. He comes from a family of diplomats: one paternal uncle, Kemal N. Kavur, served as ambassador to Finland, Bulgaria, the Soviet Union, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland; another, Sadi Kavur, was ambassador to Yugoslavia, Sweden and Portugal.[1]
Fuad went to the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London, and later studied International Relations at University College London. However, straight after university, Kavur went into arts. In 1973, he directed the British premiere of Gottfried von Einem's opera Der Prozeß, based on Franz Kafka's novel, The Trial, at Bloomsbury Theatre, [2] attended by the composer. Fuad then worked at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as assistant to John Copley. From 1977, Fuad was an assistant to Peter Ustinov on opera productions at the Paris Opera, Hamburg State Opera, La Scala (Milan), the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 1978, Fuad directed the revival of Wagner's Ring Cycle at Washington's Seattle Opera in a production originally created by George London (1975).[1]
In 1984 Fuad produced the feature film Memed, My Hawk (also known as The Lion and the Hawk), based on the novel Memed, My Hawk[7] by the Turkish writer Yashar Kemal. It was directed by Peter Ustinov and starred Ustinov, Herbert Lom, Simon Dutton, Siobhán McKenna, Michael Elphick and Denis Quilley. Memed My Hawk had a royal premiere in London in the aid of UNICEF.[3] However, the Turkish government of the day, (1982), refused permission for the filming of MEMED MY HAWK to take place in Turkey, as the film was considered to be communist propaganda. Consequently, Kavur had to move the production, in the last minute, to Croatia. In May 1984, MEMED MY HAWK had a Royal Première, in the aid of UNICEF. Although some thirty-five ambassadors attended the event, the Turkish ambassador did not, due to a previous engagement.
In July 2013, Kavur assembled a group of artists and intellectuals, thirty in all, to sign an open letter addressed to the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, criticising his handling of the Gezi Park Protests in June, which left 8 people dead, 11 blinded, and 8,000 injured. [5] The signatories included Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, David Lynch, Sir Ben Kingsley, James Fox, Sir Tom Stoppard, Christopher Hampton, Lord Fellowes, Frederick Raphael, Edna O’Brian, Rachel Johnson, Christopher Shinn, Branko Lustig, Vilmos Zsigmond and, Ataturk’s biographer, Andrew Mango. The letter was published as a full page advertisement in the London broadsheet, the Times, on July 24 2013, and led the to Prime Minister Erdogan threatening to instigate legal proceedings against the Times, and the signatories [6]
From 1982 to 1992, Kavur was a company director of Peter Ustinov Productions- which produced numerous TV series, MY RUSSIA, USTINOV’S STATESMAN, PAVAROTTI.
[4] In 2001, he was the executive producer of Atatürk, a television documentary on Kemal Atatürk, narrated by Donald Sinden. Since 2017 Kavur has been preparing a feature film, ATATURK .[5]
In May 2022, TURKISH STORIES, a collection of short stories by Kavur, was published by Curzon Books.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Reeta Çevik, Reeta (14 January 2008). "Atatürk film to be made in 2009". Hürriyet Daily News
- ↑ "FRONT MATTER". Musical Times. 114 (MAY 1973): 453–552. May 1973. JSTOR 957306 – via Content metadata.
- ↑ Elphick, Kate and Denison, Nigel (2013). Michael Elphick: The Great Pretender, p. 122. The History Press. ISBN 0750951648 Search this book on
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- ↑ Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film, p. 256. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110951940 Search this book on .
- ↑ Hürriyet Daily News(12 August 2014). "Actors announced for ‘Atatürk’ film"
[[Category : HDN Hurriyet Daily News, [30 July 2013] Producer Fuad Kavur identifies himself as the instigator of the Times open letter to PM Erdogan.] [6] Hurriyet Daily News July 31, 2013
Kavur identified as instigator of full page ad in the London Times
[7] See IMdB.
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