Amy Lane

Photographer credit: Martin Paulsson

Director

Awards

2020 - La bohème - Winner of Best New Opera Production at Copenhagen Culture Awards

2019 - Drot Og Marsk Winner of Reumert Award for Best New Production, Co-Directed with Kasper Holten at Royal Danish Opera

Nominations

2020 - La bohème -  nominated for Best New Opera Production at the Reumert Awards.


Amy is an opera director who has worked extensively in the UK with the Royal Opera House, Longborough Festival Opera, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Opera North and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Internationally, Amy has worked regularly with some of the most reputable opera companies in the world including Le Chatelet in Paris, Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and the Bregenz Festival in Austria. Amy was the Head Staff Director at The Royal Opera Covent Garden for 5 years and is the Artistic Director of the Copenhagen Opera Festival.


Gallery


2024

Production

Company

Faust Canadian Opera Company, Dir. Amy Lane, Set & Costume Des. Emma Ryott
The Yellow Wallpaper Opera Nova, Prague, Dir. Amy Lane, Set & Costume Des. Emma Ryott
The Ring Cycle Longborough Festival Opera, Dir. Amy Lane, Des. Emma Ryott
Don Giovanni Canadian Opera Company, Dir. Kasper Holton, Associate Dir. Amy Lane

2023

Production

Company

Brothers Copenhagen Opera Festival, Dir. Kasper Holten, Associae Dir. Amy Lane
The Yellow Wallpaper Sadlers Wells & Copenhagen Opera Festival, Dir. Amy Lane, Set & Costume Des. Emma Ryott
Romeo et Juliette (Revival) Savonlinna Opera Festival, Dir. Amy Lane, Des. Emma Ryott
Gotterdammerung Londonborough Festival Opera, Dir. Amy Lane

2022

Production

Company

Roméo et Juliette Malmö Opera, Dir. Amy Lane, Des. Emma Ryott
Siegfried Longborough Festival Opera, Costume Des. Emma Ryott
NOS at Cadogan Hall with ENO Orchestra National Opera Studio/ENO, Dir. Amy Lane

2021

Production

Company

Gianni Schicchi Canadian Opera Company, Set & Costume Des. Antony McDonald
Die Walküre Longborough Festival Opera, Dir. Amy Lane
La bohème Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Dir. Amy Lane
Tosca (Revival) The Royal Opera House, Dir. Jonathan Kent, Revival Dir. Amy Lane, Des. Paul Brown

2020

Production

Company

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Concert Production Royal Academy Of Music, Conductor. Sian Edwards
Alice's Adventures Underground The Royal Opera House, Dir/Des. Antony McDonald, Assistant Dir. Amy Lane, Lighting Des. Fabiana Piccioli, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge

2019

Production

Company

Das Rheingold Longborough Festival Opera, Costume Des. Emma Ryott
Drot Og Marsk Royal Danish Opera, Co-Director Kasper Holten, Movement Dir. Jo Meredith
Marco Polo (Revival) Quanzhou & Genova, Co-Director Kasper Holten
Tosca - Concert Production created for Sir Bryn Terfel Abu Dhabi Festival
Brothers Armel Opera Festival, Budapest, Dir.Kasper Holton
Don Giovanni (Revival) Houston Grand Opera, Texas, Dir.Kasper Holton
Faust - Japan Tour The Royal Opera, Dir. David McVicar
Otello - Japan Tour The Royal Opera, Dir. Keith Warner
La bohème Copenhagen Festival Opera, Dir. Amy Lane, Des. Emma Ryott, Movement Dir. Jo Meredith

2018

Production

Company

Marco Polo Guangzhou & Beijing, Co-Director Kasper Holten, Costume Des. Emma Ryott
War Horse in Concert Edinburgh - Usher Hall, Leeds & Coventry Cathedral: BBC Radio 2
The Ring Cycle The Royal Opera House, Dir. Keith Warner
Brothers Icelandic Opera, Dir. Kasper Holten
Don Giovanni The Royal Opera House, Dir. Kasper Holten
Hansel und Gretel The Royal Opera House, Dir & Des. Antony McDonald, Movement Dir. Lucy Burge, Lighting Des. Lucy Carter

2017

Production

Company

Falstaff - Concert Production, created for Sir Bryn Terfel Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Tosca - Concert Production, created for Sir Bryn Terfel Eisteddfod
Brothers Den Jyske Opera, Dir. Daniel Bjarnasson
The Merchant of Venice The Royal Opera House, Dir. Keith Warner
Don Giovanni (Revival) Gran Teatro Del Liceu, Barcelona, Dir. Kasper Holten
King Roger Opera Australia - Sydney Opera House, Dir. Kasper Holten
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg The Royal Opera House, Dir. Kasper Holten

2016

Production

Company

War Horse in Concert The Royal Albert Hall
The Merchant of Venice Welsh National Opera, Dir. Keith Warner
Manon Lescaut The Royal Opera House, Dir. Jonathan Kent
Oedipe The Royal Opera House, Dir. Alex Olle & Valentina Carrasco
Giani Schicchi The Royal Opera House, Dir. Richard Jones

2015

Production

Company

Bryn Terfel at 50 - Sir Bryn Terfel's 50th Birthday Gala The Royal Albert Hall
Noye's Fludde Orchestre De Picardie
The Great Gatsby Dresden, Semper Oper , Dir. Keith Warner
Don Giovanni The Royal Opera House & Japan Tour, Dir. Kasper Holten
Macbeth The Royal Opera House Japan Tour, Dir. Deborah Warner
Krol Roger The Royal Opera House, Dir. Kasper Holten