Productions

David Edwards - Stage Director


2008 includes:

La Cenerentola – Opera Memphis, USA
Dido and Aeneas - Temple Music Festival, LONDON
Simon Boccanegra - SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
Music in Film – Mastersingers Company, ALDEBURGH
Opera Showcase – Opera Studio, NEW NATIONAL THEATRE, TOKYO

2007

Albert Herring – NEW NATIONAL THEATRE, TOKYO
Il Barbiere di Siviglia –SINGAPORE LYRIC OPERA
La Traviata – Diva Opera, EUROPE
Die Walküre (Act 1) – SINGAPORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Breaking THE RING – illustrated presentation, ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON
Crime and Punishment – Mastersingers Company, PRESTEIGNE FESTIVAL
Mary Seacole – LONDON and the Sugar & Spice Festival, GATESHEAD, U.K.
Wagner’s Gods – presentation for the Wagner Society, Linbury Studio, LONDON
Opera Showcase – Opera Studio, NEW NATIONAL THEATRE, TOKYO
From Bayreuth to Busseto – presentation for Wagner Society/Amici di Verdi, LONDON
2006:

Götterdämmerung (scenes) - Mastersingers Company, ROYAL ACADEMY LONDON
Le Nozze di Figaro - SINGAPORE LYRIC OPERA
The Screams of Kitty Genovese (Will Todd) - NEW YORK MUSIC THEATRE FESTIVAL
Wagner, Britten & the Sea
- Mastersingers Company, ALDEBURGH
Opera Showcase - Opera Studio, NEW NATIONAL THEATRE TOKYO


2004 - 2005:

Parsifal (Act 2)- PALACE OPERA, UK
Lucrezia Borgia - (new production) THE MINNESOTA OPERA
The Blackened Man (Will Todd) – World Premiere, BUXTON FESTIVAL
Die Walküre (Act 3) - Mastersingers Company, ROYAL ACADEMY LONDON
Wesendonck Lieder/Les nuits d'été – WAGNER SOCIETY LONDON
Exiled in America - CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
Candide - BBC Concert Orchestra, London

1998 - 2003:

I Pagliacci - Goyescas CENTRAL CITY OPERA COLORADO
Die Zauberflöte - NEW NATIONAL THATRE TOKYO
Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor - SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CENTER
Carmen - THE OPERA COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
L'AMOUR DE LOIN (Saariaho) – London World Premiere, BBC SO BARBICAN CENTER
Dialogues des Carmélites , Faust - PORTLAND OPERA
Simon Boccanegra, Arabella - SAN FRANCISCO OPERA
I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Rigoletto - TULSA OPERA
Der fliegende Holländer - SAN DIEGO OPERA
Attila - LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
Fedora - WASHINGTON OPERA
Stiffelio, Fedora - LOS ANGELES OPERA
Merry Wives, Italian Girl - MEROLA OPERA PROGRAM
Re-opening Gala, Katya Kabanova - ROYAL OPERA, LONDON
Porgy & Bess, Iolanthe, Royal Palace/Propheten (Weill), Gondoliers - BBC PROMS, RAH
Verdi in Venice, Herr Mozart - Doktor Strauss, Das Rheingold, Die Walküre,
Götterdämmerung (scenes)
- COVENT GARDEN FESTIVAL
Mary Seacole (Chew) - LINBURY STUDIO, LONDON
Alcina - OPERA THEATER OF LUCCA
Rheingold (scenes) - MASTERSINGERS COMPANY
La Sonnambula - CASTLEWARD OPERA
Wagner & Berlioz, Opera at the Movies - CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL
The Queen of Spades - NEW END THEATRE, HAMPSTEAD