Mark Thompson has an extensive career as a theatre and corporate/event designer as well as a ceramic sculptor with nine solo sculpture exhibitions in Australia. Mark is also a successful painter exhibiting his works in solo exhibitions witn Robin Gibson Gallery and was a 2009 Archibald finalist. In 1984 Mark began designing for theatre and has … Continued
Matthew Barclay is a stage and movement director. He studied music as a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, dance at the Victorian College of the Arts and graduated from the Australian Ballet School and in arts management from Deakin University. His first creative engagement at Opera Australia was as choreographer on the premiere of … Continued
Background: Joined The Australian Opera Chorus in 1973 for the opening of the Opera House. Performed as a principal singer for a number of years before accepting the position of Resident Director in 1989 OA repertoire: Roles include: Gretel: Hansel and Gretel, Anne Truelove: The Rake's Progress, Blonde: … Continued
Obie and Bessie award winning choreographer and Artist Director of Mark Dendy Projects. Mark recently conceived, choreographed and directed the site-specific Ritual Cyclical for an audience of over 3,000 at Lincoln Center, NYC in July 2013. Opera: Magic Flute, The Metropolitan Opera, Orpheus, New York City Opera, Rappacini’s Daughter, Gotham Chamber Opera – NYC Broadway:Taboo … Continued
Leo is director of 59 Productions, specialists in creating and integrating animation, film and video into live performance and real-world environments. Recent video design for opera includes: The Perfect American (ENO/Teatro Real Madrid); Eugene Onegin, The Minotaur and Salome (Royal Opera House); Messiah (Opera De Lyon/ENO); Al Gran Sole Carico D’Amore (Staatsoper Berlin/Salzburg Festival); The … Continued
Lluc Castells (Cardedeu, 1975) is closely bonded to theatre since his early childhood thanks to his family who were very involved in drama. In 1995 he finished his drawing studies and he dedicated himself to costume and set design for theatre, musical, circus, cinema, dance and opera performances. He usually collaborates with theatre stage directors … Continued
Kasper Holten was Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden from 2011 to 2017. In his previous eleven years as Artistic Director of the Royal Danish Opera he made audiences laugh, cry and, above all, engage in a series of provocative productions ranging from Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre to Lerner & Loewe’s … Continued
Kate’s first professional engagement was with the Munich-based modern dance company Iwanson Dance Company at the age of 16. She stayed in Munich for three years before returning to Australia in 1981 to join the One Extra Company under the artistic direction of Kai Tai Chan. In 1985, with a grant from the Australia Council, … Continued
In 1998, Julie Taymor became the first woman to win the Tony® Award for Best Direction of a Musical, and also won a Tony® for Best Costumes, for her landmark production of The Lion King. The musical has won three Molière Awards including Best Musical and Best Costumes, garnered Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and … Continued
J. D. McClatchy is the author of six collections of poems: Scenes From Another Life (Braziller, 1981), Stars Principal (Macmillan, 1986), The Rest of the Way (Knopf, 1990), Ten Commandments (Knopf, 1998), Hazmat (Knopf, 2002, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award), and Mercury Dressing (Knopf , 2009, … Continued