Some corporate-governance experts are even saying the lead-director concept does not go far enough, and are calling on companies to separate the roles of chairman and chief executive, as is common in Britain.
Too, the conflation of "art" and "opera" has contributed to opera's image as exclusionary: "Art" in this context has come to mean, all too often, "highfalutin". Abstract sets and interpretive directors' concepts, often the most creative part of the enterprise of putting on a work that opera fans have seen dozens of times already, help distance the form from its inherent popular appeal.
Participating panelists include director Dawn Brown (concept artist, Hunger Games: Mockingjay) and producer Warren Manser (concept artist, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice).
"And that was like a director's concept that I had going into the movie".
"This is a magical place where coffee comes to life," said Liz Muller, director of concept design for Starbucks.
At Renault, the project was overseen by Mr. van den Acker along with Axel Breun, the company's director of concept cars, and Raphaël Linari, a designer.
Rather than indulging in personal excess, Callas is setting forth, in the manner of a German-trained director, her concept of the opera.
The Met can no longer look down on Covent Garden for dropping Deborah Voigt when she did not fit the director's concept and his "little black dress".
But none of them has a waiflike, vulnerable appearance and therefore they did not fit the director's "concept," which was more important, apparently, than vocal ability.
