Image Credit: CincinnatiOpera.org
The Liverpool Oratorio
Paul McCartney and Carl Davis
Cincinnati Opera, 18 – 27 July
Slave – A Question of Freedom
Fegan, Feelgood Theatre Productions
The Lowry and UK tour, 9 October – 10 November
2024
2023
Blaze of Glory
David Hackbridge-Johnson, c., Stephen Higgins. World Premiere (Welsh National Opera), nominated for the International Opera Award and UK Theatre Award Best New Opera.
Image Credit: Kirsten McTernan
Image Credit: Robbie McFadzean
Marilyn Forever
Gavin Bryars (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), c., William Cole.
Image Credit: Robbie McFadzean
The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat
Michael Nyman (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
2022
2021
Image Credit: NorthernHeartlands.org
Song of Our Heartland
Will Todd, Holly Mathieson c., World Premiere, (Opera North).
This was a site-specific filmed production due to Covid restrictions.
2020
Image Credit: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Die Dreigroschenoper
Kurt Weill, Philip White c.
(Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
2019
Orfeo and Euridice
Gluck, Jonathon Swinard c., (Scottish Opera, Young Company).
Image Credit: Julie Broadfoot
Dead Man Walking
Jake Heggie, c., Jim Holmes, (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), UK staged premiere.
Image Credit: Tim Marozzo
Dracula - The Blood Count of Heaton
Peter Clifford, world premiere (Feelgood Theatre Productions). An immersive site-specific production
2018
Image Credit: Jane Hobson
Rhonnda Rips it Up
Lena Langer, c., Nicola Rose. World Premiere, (Welsh National Opera). Nominated for the Sky Arts South Bank Award and the International Opera Award 2019, Best New Opera.
These Days - the Manchester Peace Song Cycle
Nicola LeFanu, Ailis Ni Riain, Anna Appleby, Dr Emily Howard, Evangeline Mason, Carmel Smickersgill, Freya Ireland, Lucy Hale, Thomas Hopkinson, c. World Premiere, (Feelgood Theatre Productions), an immersive site-specific production.
Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare, Thomas Hopkinson, md. (Feelgood Theatre Productions)
Image Credit: Robbie McFadzean
Double Bill. Sāvitri, (Holst) - The Emperor of Atlantis, (Viktor Ullmann), Lionel Friend, c. (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland).
2017
House of the Dead, Janáček
(revival director), Tomáš Hanus c., (Welsh National Opera), Janáček Festival, Brno.
2016
Whispers of Heaton
The Unknown Bugler by Peter Kerry, The Fight, by Lindsay Williams/Cathy Crabb and Spilled Ink, by Tangled Dance Company. Music by Ailis Ni Riain and Craig Frangleton. World Premiere (Feelgood Theatre Productions) site-specific immersive production.
2015
Tokaido Road, Nicola LeFanu, Dominic Wheeler c., World Premiere
(Goldfield Productions).
Rigoletto, Verdi, Gad Kadosh c.
(Longborough Festival Opera)
2014
Lulu, Berg,
(revival director), Anthony Negus, c., (Teatro Communale, Bolzano)
2013
Lulu, Berg, (movement director/associate director), d. David Pountney,
Lothar Koenigs, c., Welsh National Opera
2000 - 2011
Aida, Verdi, (Companions Opera, Holland) stadium production, Zurich
Carmen, Bizet, (Companions Opera, Holland) stadium production, Hamburg
Il Campenello di Notte, Donizetti, Buxton International Festival, winner of Best Opera, MEN Award Best Opera
Dame Janet Baker, Kiri te Kanawa, Willard White and Montserrat Caballe staged galas (Hallé Orchestra), Bridgewater Hall
Burning Waters, Russell Keable, World Premiere, Buxton International Festival
Mis Bach Du, John Hardy, Welsh National Opera (community opera)
Something Wonderful, (Opera North/ENO)
Look No Hands, Errollyn Wallen, (Mecklenburgh Opera), World Premiere, Battersea Arts Centre, BAC Festival
Barber of Seville, Rossini, (Civit Hills), Opera
Conference of the Birds, (Opera Circus), Portugal
The Silly Little Mouse, Shostakovich, UK premiere, (Hallé Orchestra), Bridgwater Hall
Founded Bramhall Arts Festival, (1999) La Boheme, Puccini, outdoor immersive production
La Boheme, La Tour Festival, France
Brundibar, Hans Krása, Ed Gardner, c., Imperial War Museum North
Down By the Greenwood Side, Birtwistle, Royal Northern College of Music, and Los Angeles, winner of MEN award Best Opera
From the Hart, David Kern, World Premier, New End Theatre London
Aesop's Fables, Rodney Dunk, c., World Premiere, Manchester Camerata, The Bridgewater Hall opening
Dawnpath, Nicola Lefanu, Clark Rundell, c., Royal Northern College of Music
2008 - 2018
As Director of Youth Perform, a conservatoire group at the Royal Northern college of Music: Singing in the Rain, Threepenny Opera, Guys and Dolls, Singing in the Rain, Kiss Me Kate, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors and The Wiz