Recent Opera Productions

Summer 2023

Opera Double Bill

Holst Sāvitri
Judith Weir Blond Eckbert

Ashley Dean director
Timothy Redmond conductor
Anna Bonomelli designer
Andrew May lighting designer
Jonathan Waller fight director
Anne Sutton assistant director
Aoife Moran assistant conductor (Sāvitri)
Edwin Spark assistant conductor (Blond Eckbert)
 

Opera Makers

Will Kerley director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Liam Bunster designer
Edie Bailey assistant director

Michael Rose assistant conductor

Lantern Fish

Music by Luka Venter
Libretto by David Bottomley

Lost Property

Music by Anna Disley-Simpson
Libretto by Olivia Bell

Reborns

Music by Elif Nur Karlidag
Libretto by Stanley Lawson

Spring 2023

Dead Man Walking

Music by Jake Heggie
Libretto by Terrence McNally

Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Edie Bailey & Anne Sutton assistant directors
Edwin Spark assistant conductor & chorus master
Anna Reid designer
Kyra Coppini associate designer
Anthony Doran lighting designer
Ros Chase associate lighting designer
Andy Taylor sound designer

Aoife Moran chief music coach
Alistair Burton & Michael Rose répétiteurs

Spring Opera Scenes

Olly Platt director
Elizabeth Rowe music director
Frankie Gerrard set & costume designer
Sam Bernstein lighting designer
Jonathan Strutt video designer
Andy Taylor sound designer

Aleksandra Myslek & Yongqiu Yuan repetiteurs

Autumn 2022
 

Opera Triple Bill

Le Portrait de Manon
Music by Jules Massenet
Libretto by Georges Boyer

Fête Galante
Music by Dame Ethel Smyth
Libretto by Dame Ethel Smyth and Edward Shanks

I due timidi
Music by Nino Rota
Libretto by Suso Cecchi d'Amico

Dominic Wheeler conductor
Rodula Gaitanou director
Simon Corder set and lighting designer
Laura Jane Stanfield costume and props designer
Victoria Newlyn movement director
Ryan Samuel Davies video designer
Edwin Spark assistant conductor
Edie Bailey assistant director

Autumn Opera Scenes

Martin Lloyd-Evans director 
Jonathon Swinard music director 
Anne Sutton assistant director
Marlowe Fitzpatrick assistant music director
Nate Gibson designer

Summer 2022

Summer Opera: Kurt Weill & Monteverdi
 

Collection of Monterverdi Madrigals
Monteverdi Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Weill Der Zar lässt sich photographieren
 

Chris Hopkins conductor
Victoria Newlyn director
Louie Whitemore designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer
Joseph Beesley assistant conductor & chorus master
Monica Nicolaides assistant director
Amy Hill associate designer (costume)
Jonathan Chan assistant lighting designer

Opera Makers
Olivia Fuchs director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Zahra Mansouri designer

Bloody Murder
Music by Luke Byrne
Libretto by Shirley Keane
 

Samhain Bloom
Music by Edward Shilts
Libretto by Sam Redway
 

Lucid
Music by Beatrice Ferreira

Libretto by Kerry Priest

Spring 2022

Spring Opera Scenes

Rodula Gaitanou director
Peter Robinson music director
Laura Jane Stanfield designer
Eve Clayton lighting designer
Dan Light video designer
Monica Nicolaides movement and assistant director

See production photos

Opera Double Bill: Miss Fortune by Judith Weir and The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti

Dominic Wheeler conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Anna Reid designer
Anthony Doran lighting designer
Joseph Beesley assistant conductor
Rachel Wise assistant director/movement

See production photos (28 February & 4 March cast; 2 & 7 March cast)
Watch our behind the scenes film

Autumn 2021

Opera Double Bill: Le docteur Miracle by Georges Bizet & Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot, orchestrated by Amy Crankshaw

Dominic Wheeler conductor 
Ashley Dean director  
Cordelia Chisholm designer
Kevin Treacy lighting designer
Digory Price assistant conductor
Rachel Wise assistant director

See production photos

Summer 2021

Opera Makers

Paradise Garden
Emily Hazrati composer
Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh librettist

Text
Michael Bascom composer
Clare Best librettist

The Watchmaker’s Daughter
Michał Kawecki composer
Mac Morris librettist

Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dominic Wheeler music director
Louie Whitemore designer
Finlay Anderson lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn movement
Eleanor Burke assistant director
Will Sharma assistant conductor

See production photos

Beginnings: New and Early Opera

The Apothecary
Amy Crankshaw composer
Clare Best librettist

Judicium Salomonis
by Carissimi 

Eintänzer
Aran O’Grady composer
Kaitlin Sullivan librettist

I’m Cleaning, I’m Cleaning
Ábel Esbenshade composer
Aubrey Lavender librettist

Orphée descendant aux enfers H.471
by Charpentier

Chad Kelly conductor
John Ramster director
Louis Carver designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn movement director
Toby Hession & Josh Ridley assistant conductors

See production photos

Spring 2021

The Little Green Swallow

Music by Jonathan Dove
Libretto adapted from Carlo Gozzi
English singing translation by Adam Pollock
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Dick Bird designer
Rory Beaton lighting designer
Anna Reid associate designer

November 2020

Opera Triple Bill: Wolf-Ferrari Il segreto di Susanna (Susanna’s Secret), Mascagni Zanetto, Donizetti Rita (Two Men and a Woman) - see production photos

Stephen Medcalf director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Cordelia Chisholm designer
Simon Corder lighting designer

July 2020

Virtual Opera Makers

John Ramster director
Tim Redmond music director
Louis Carver designer
Jack Weir lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn choreographer

The Apothecary
Clare Best writer
Amy Crankshaw composer

Eintänzer
Kaitlin Sullivan writer
Aran O’Grady composer

I’m Cleaning, I’m Cleaning
Aubrey Lavender writer
Ábel Esbenshade composer

June 2020

Virtual Opera Double Bill - Purcell Dido and Aeneas and Respighi La bella dormente nel bosco

Dominic Wheeler conductor
Olivia Fuchs director
takis designer
Jake Wiltshire lighting designer
Victoria Newlyn movement director
May Howard-Shigeno assistant director
Will Sharma & Josh Ridley assistant conductors and chorus masters
Liam Sayer & Rin Akiyama assistant lighting designers

Watch the trailer

February 2020

The Angel Esmeralda (world premiere)

Commissioned by Scottish Opera
Adapted from the short story by Don DeLillo
Music by Lliam Paterson (Former Scottish Opera Emerging Artist Composer in Residence)
Libretto by Pamela Carter

Dominic Wheeler conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Gregor Donnelly designer
Robbie Butler lighting designer
Liam Strong video designer

See production photos

November 2019

Haydn La Fedeltà Premiata

Alice Farnham conductor
Stephen Barlow director
Adrian Linford designer
David Howe lighting designer
Emily Coppola assistant director
Manon Fischer-Dieskau assistant conductor

See production photos