The company has also frequently turned to the cinema world for directors of its productions. During the 2001–2002 season, it mounted a production of Wagner's "Lohengrin", directed by Austrian actor Maximilian Schell and a double bill of Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" and Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi", directed by filmmaker William Friedkin. Garry Marshall directed his own adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's "La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein" in 2005. Friedkin returned to direct Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" in 2004 and, in 2008, the first two parts of Puccini's "Il trittico," "Il tabarro" and "Suor Angelica," a production that also featured Woody Allen making his operatic debut staging "Gianni Schicchi."