Stephen Barlow
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.
“La Cenerentola - The Grange Festival
Happily, the festival has hit the operatic bull’s-eye with Stephen Barlow’s dazzling staging of Rossini’s greatest comedy, La Cenerentola (Cinderella)...It’s a gem of a show, delivered by a true ensemble cast who, thanks to Barlow and Parry, work together like clockwork in Rossini’s masterly concerted numbers. ”
“Flight - Scottish Opera
Stephen Barlow’s production is unfailingly clever...”
“Phantom of the Opera - Folketeatret Oslo
Opera director Stephen Barlow and choreographer Ewan Jones are inspired choices for this production, as they both have great experience in the opera field. Barlow, for his park has done a truly commendable job of enchanting the humour in a lot of scenes involving the Opera Managers and the ensemble; I can’t recall a production of Phantom where the silent roles of the stagehands got as many laughs. ”
Gallery
2023
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Phantom of the Opera | Christmas Theatre, Athens |
2022
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Barber of Seville | Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico |
| Hansel & Gretel | Royal College of Music, London |
| Die Fledermaus | Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester |
2021
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| La Cenerentola | The Grange Festival |
| The Cunning Little Vixen | Opera Holland Park, London |
| L'heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi | Royal Academy of Music, London |
2020
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| The Barber of Seville (Postponed) | Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Galatsi Olympic Hall, Greece |
| Mansfield Park (Postponed) | Royal Northern College of Music |
2019
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Roméo et Juliette | Estonian National Opera, Tallinn |
| La Fedeltà Premiata | Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Silk Street Theatre, London |
2018
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Flight | Scottish Opera |
| Il Barbiere di Siviglia | The Grange Festival |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Folketeateret (Oslo) |
2017
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Così fan tutte | Central City Opera, Colorado |
| Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicci | The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts |
| Les Deux Enfants | Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia |
| State Fair | Guilford School of Acting, University of Surrey |
| Rondine | Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, France |
2016
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Madama Butterfly | Den Jyske Opera, Aarhus |
| La bohème | Opera Holland Park, London |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | LAMDA, London |
2015
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change | LAMDA, London |
| Flight | Opera Holland Park, London |
| The Phantom of the Opera | Bucharest National Opera, Romania |
| Le donne curiose | Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London |
2014
Production |
Company |
|---|---|
| Rigoletto | Bucharest National Opera, Romania |
| La Fanciulla Del West | Opera Holland Park, London |