Emily Beech
Opera Director
Theatre Maker
Facilitator
Soprano
I am a London-based musician and opera maker currently completing postgraduate training in vocal performance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. 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, 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
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.