Director

Stephen was born and educated in Melbourne, Australia and has directed over 50 productions worldwide for many of the world’s leading opera companies including Santa Fe Opera, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Glyndebourne Festival, San Francisco Opera, Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse and Opéra de Monte Carlo.

His recent work includes new productions of Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Santa Fe & Grange Festival), Roméo et Juliette (Estonian National Opera), La Cenerentola (Grange Festival) Flight (Scottish Opera & Opera Holland Park), Così Fan Tutte (Central City Opera, Colorado), Madama Butterfly (Danish National Opera) and Carmen (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis).

Stephen has a longstanding relationship with London’s Opera Holland Park where he has staged over ten productions including Tosca, Don Giovanni, La bohème, La Fanciulla del West, the European premiere of Fantastic Mr Fox and recently
The Cunning Little Vixen. He has also staged many operas for all the UK’s leading opera colleges – Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music and Royal Northern College of Music.

Stephen’s very successful new production of The Phantom of the Opera has been staged in Bucharest, Oslo and Athens – all national premieres of the piece – and more cities/countries are planned as this production is ‘rolled out’ by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group.