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Doug Fitch (born August 2, 1959) is a polymath American visual artist and director. He is most well known for his opera productions, but his body of work runs through several mediums, from drawing and sculpture to theater, architecture and food. Fitch is the co-founder of the theatre and entertainment company Giants Are Small together with Swiss producer and filmmaker Edouard Getaz and multimedia entrepreneur Frederic Gumy. He is also the co-founder of the collaborative art partnership known as Orphicorps with Mimi Oka, known for using edible media in experimental feasts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.orphicorp.com/ )〕 During his career as a director, Fitch has created productions for the Los Angeles Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Santa Fe Opera, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and several other major institutions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.taoschambermusicgroup.org/artists/89/Douglas_Fitch )〕 Fitch has collaborated with James Levine, Alan Gilbert, Leonard Slatkin, Peter Sellars, Robert Wilson, Karole Armitage, Joshua Bell and other celebrated artists. He has also worked with puppeteer Jim Henson (The Muppets, Sesame Street) and architect/designer, Gaetano Pesce. ==Early years== Doug Fitch was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He then grew up in Fargo, North Dakota and Coventry, Connecticut. As a youth, he studied violin, dance and puppetry. Early on, he got involved with community theater and eventually, with his brother, turned the family basement into a theater to perform original works based on Shakespeare tragedies and musical comedies. Later, after attending an introduction to puppetry arts course at the University of Connecticut at age nine, he worked with his family to create a touring puppet theatre. He studied at Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude in Visual Studies. During those years, Fitch performed in various musical theater productions including the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. He also collaborated with director Peter Sellars on several theatrical enterprises, including a puppet version of Wagner's ''Ring cycle'' in the streets of Denver Colorado. For another Sellars project - a well-known production of Shakespeare’s ''Antony and Cleopatra'', staged in the Adams House Swimming Pool at Harvard, Fitch played the part of the Clown. In 1979 -80 Fitch took a year off from Harvard to study cooking at La Varenne in Paris and architectural design at (l’Institut d’Architecture et d’Etudes Urbaines ) in Strasbourg, France. At the latter, he met Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce, who became an important influence on his work. Fitch worked with Pesce for the next three years in Venice, making models of visionary buildings and contributing to international design competitions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Doug Fitch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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