Stuart Stratford

Conductor

Praised for his “intense engagement and energy” (The Telegraph) and his “razor sharp” musical direction (Times Literary Supplement), conductor Stuart Stratford was appointed Music Director of Scottish Opera in 2015.

In the 2022/23 season he conducts Ainadamar and Il Trittico both for Scottish Opera, and Peter Grimes for Royal Danish Opera. The major orchestras and opera houses he has conducted include English National Opera, Opera North, Welsh National Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, Edinburgh International Festival, Finnish National Opera, Theater St. Gallen, Estonian National Opera, London Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC Philharmonic; Philharmonia Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Porto Symphony Orchestra, with a wide breadth of repertoire including La bohème, Il trittico, La Fanciulla del West, Tosca,  Il barbiere di Siviglia, Don Giovanni, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, L’amico Fritz, Iris, Silvano, Falstaff, Rigoletto, Giovanna d’Arco, Lucia di Lammermoor, Orfeo ed Euridice, Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, The Queen of Spades, La forza del Destino, Khovanshchina, Jenůfa, Katya Kabanova, Faust, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Turn of the Screw, Satyagraha, Candide.