Donna Stirrup

Previously for ENO: Rodelinda, Thebans, Tosca, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, The Girl of the Golden West, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Magic Flute, Jenufa and Lucia di Lammermoor.

Donna is Artistic Director of Community in Music, London, for whom she has directed Hansel and Gretel, Noye’s Fludde and semi-stagings of Messiah and Creation.

Notable engagements elsewhere: Saul for Glyndebourne Tour (RPS Award for Best Opera Production for Festival and Tour productions) and for Adelaide Festival 2017 (six Helpmann Awards, including Best Production), ENO’s Rodelinda at the Bolshoi (two Golden Mask Awards, including Best Production), Glyndebourne’s Rusalka at Houston Grand Opera, She directed the 2017 UK premiere of Philip Glass’s The Juniper Tree (Richmond Festival), ENO’s contributions to the RSC/BBC Shakespeare Live! and ENO’s Prom of Peter Grimes, revivals of Glyndebourne’s The Miserly Knight/Gianni Schicchi at the Festival de Opera, Tenerife, and ENO’s On the Town at the Châtelet, Paris. Assistant director work at Glyndebourne includes: Hamlet, Billy Budd, The Cunning Little Vixen and Eugene Onegin and at the ROH, Anna Nicole and Gloriana.