Emily Beech

Opera Director Theatre Maker Facilitator Soprano

I am a London-based musician and opera maker, and current Junior Fellow (opera directing) at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I am a Waterperry Festival Young Artist (2023) and a Serena Fenwick Artist for British Youth Opera (2024). In expanding my directing practice, I am interested in new works and collaborating with living composers. I want to make opera that is exciting, accessible, story-driven and intersectional. My pronouns are she/her.

Credits

Director, 'The Kings Pants: A New Children's Opera', OperaPrelude for Isle of Wight Literary Festival, 2024.

Director, Young Artists' Gala, Waterperry Opera Festival, 2023.

Assistant Director, Acis and Galatea/Dido and Aeneas (double bill), Waterperry Opera Festival, 2023.

Director, 1944: Home Fires, Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival, Cockpit Theatre, 2023.

Assistant Director, Agrippina, Hampstead Garden Opera, Jacksons Lane Theatre, 2 weeks, 2023.

Director, Le Nozze di Figaro (Scenes for Schools), Blackheath Halls/Trinity Laban, 2023.

Assistant Director; Scenes from Die Zauberflöte, La Clemenza di Tito, Die Entführung, Don Giovanni; Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, 1 week, 2023.

Co-Director, 1936: Fishing, Cockpit Theatre for Tete-a-Tete Opera Festival, 1 week, 2022.

Facilitator, Co-Lab 2022, Streetwise Opera.

Facilitator, ‘Stories from the Inside’ Project 2023, Irene Taylor Trust.

Training

Guildhall School of Music and Drama; Junior Fellowship (Opera Directing) 2024-25

British Youth Opera (BYO) Serena Fenwick Artist's Programme (Soprano) 2024

Waterperry Opera Festival Young Artist Programme
(Young Director) 2023

MMus Vocal Performance (Soprano); Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance; 2021-23.

BA Music 1:1; University of Birmingham; 2016-19.

Location

London

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Music
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Directing
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Theatre making
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development

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