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Rumpelstiltskin
(Birmingham Contemporary
Music Group). An alumna of the University of
Melbourne and London Contemporary Dance
School, Fahie received a Jerwood Foundation
Choreography Award in 2003.
DANIELLE URBAS
(Movement
Director)
Lyric debut
The British director/
choreographer,
who
trained as an actress at the
Drama Centre London,
appeared onstage, on
television, and in films before making her
directorial debut with Emily Howard’s opera
Zatopek!
, part of the New Music Festival 20x12,.
Her most recent productions are Beverley
Andrews’s
Awa’s Journey
, in collaboration
with Union Dance in London, and a newly
developed piece at the recent Tête à Tête
Opera Festival. She assisted director Antony
McDonald on Thomas Adès’s
Powder Her Face
for NI Opera and recently debuted at Irish
National Opera directing that production’s
revival. She previously assisted McDonald at
Wide Open Opera, NI Opera, Opéra National
du Rhin, and Grange Park Opera. She also
regularly assists Oliver Mears, director of opera
at London’s Royal Opera, on a highly diverse
repertoire for companies including Tête à Tête
Opera Festival, NI Opera, and Scottish Opera,
among others. She revived Mears’s production
of
The Turn of the Scre
w for Moscow’s Novaya
Opera, and also served as assistant movement
director on
La bohème
at the Royal Opera
and revival movement director for the same
production at Madrid’s Teatro Real and the
Royal Opera.
SARAH HATTEN
(Wigmaster and Makeup
Designer)
Wigmaster and makeup
designer since 2011/12.
Lyric’s wigmaster and
makeup designer has
worked in a wide repertoire
at Des Moines Metro
Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, as well as
Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo
Music Festival, and the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music. She has also
worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the
major opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha,
Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well
as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and,
in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the
Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A. in
music at Simpson College.
Sarah Hatten is
the
Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup
Designer Endowed Chair
.
SIMON IORIO
(Associate Director)
Lyric debut
The London-born director
originally trained as a
singer. He has worked
on productions at the
Royal Opera House,
Glyndebourne Festival
Opera/Glyndebourne Tour, and Teatro Real,
Madrid, with directors such as Richard Jones,
Sir David McVicar, Laurent Pelly, and Keith
Warner. In 2017 he was associate revival
director on
Cosi fan tutte
for the Glyndebourne
Tour. Directing credits include Monteverdi’s
L'incoronazione di Poppea
, Howard Moody’s
Push
for The Battle Festival/Glyndebourne,
Offenbach’s
Orpheus in the Underworld
for
Trinity Laban at Blackheath Halls, Bernstein’s
Trouble in Tahiti
and Wolf-Ferrari’s
Susanna's
Secret
for The Little Opera Company. He has
directed opera scenes at the Guildhall School of
Music and Drama, where he is a visiting professor
of stagecraft and acting. He has also directed
opera scenes for the Royal Academy of Music
and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music, and
has delivered workshops for the Jerwood Young
Artists program at Glyndebourne. Future plans
include directing the world premiere of Howard
Moody’s
Agreed
for Glyndebourne, and assisting
Sir David McVicar on
I masnadieri
at La Scala
in Milan.