by Henry Purcell
Jacksons Lane Theatre
April 2024
Director
Music Director: Seb Gillot
Design : Elin Steele
Lighting : Hector Murray
Choreography : Monica Nikolaides
Production Manager : Beri Valentine
ASM’s : Liuba Silusavera + Laura Hill
Costume Supervisor : Faith Hill
OFFIE NOMINATED - BEST OPERA PRODUCTION & BEST PERFORMANCES 2024
REVIEWS
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “HGO with a talented cast, a tight orchestra and superb direction put on a spectacle in praise of love, joy and a little bit of kinky experimentation.”
“Eloise Lally does a brilliant job of organising 14 people on stage without it ever seeming like chaos and always providing a whole range of expressions and attitudes to watch.”
The Reviews Hub
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The ensemble company of fourteen young opera singers work tirelessly well together, invested and focused throughout, creating lovely classical tableaux, with each performer getting their chance to shine and sing Purcell’s glorious songs…a vibrant and, yes, charming production.”
The Spy in the Stalls
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Hampstead Garden Opera (HGO) has entrusted the task to director Eloise Lally and she attacks the piece with wit and verve.”
Plays to See
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“This was a fabulously lavish visual treat – big, camp, joyous and taking no prisoners - and the music was, well, sublime”
Ham & High
by Cush Jumbo
Mountview Academy
Director
Set : Jida Akil
Costume : Anna Kelsey
Light : Hector Murray
Sound: Matthew Giles
Movement : Tom Godwin
Performed by the 3rd year actors.
by Vivienne Franzman
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Director
Set : Jida Akil
Light : Hector Murray
Costume : Anna Kelsey
Sound: Matthew Giles
Movement : Tom Godwin
Performed by the 3rd year actors.
by Thomas Ades
Netherlands Reisopera 2024
Assistant Director
Director: Paul Carr
Conductor: Otto Tausk
Choreographer: Carmine De Amicis
Set + Costume : Dominique Weisbauer
Light : Thomas C. Hase
Dramaturg: Michiel Beijmans
Cast: Laura Bohn, John Savourin, Alison Scherzer, Daniel Arnaldos
Dancers: Ivan Montis, Nicky Van De Cleef, Davide Trioni
Music - Purcell | Story - Katie Mitchell, Raphael Pichon & Cordelia Lyn
Oper Koln 2022 | Theatre de Caen & Opera National de Bordeaux 2019 | Opera Comique 2017
Revival Director
Conductor: Raphael Pichon
Director: Katie Mitchell
Librettist: Cordelia Lynn
Movement Direction: Joseph Alford
Dramaturg: Sam Pritchard
Set : Chloe Lamford
Costume: Sussie Juhline - Wallen
Light: James Farncombe
Sound: Max Pappenheim
Cast including: Kate Lindsay, Adriana Bastideas - Gamboa, Ed Lyon, Alistair Miles, Alan Clayton, Emily Hendrichs, Katie Watson, John Heuzenroeder,
by Donizetti
English Touring Opera, 2023.
Director
Conductor: Gerry Cornelius
Design: Adam Wiltshire
Light: Ric Mountjoy
Fight Direction: Kaitlin Howards
Cast: Paula Sides, Thomas Elwin, Aidan Edwards, Katie Coventry, Matthew McKinney , Ed Jowle, Jerome Knox, Peter Edge, Brenton Spiteri, Phil Wilcox, Monwabisi Lindi, Masimba Ushe, Aaron O’Hare, Ben Knight
REVIEWS
⭐⭐⭐⭐
“an evening of solid musical performances, consistently excellent acting and highly compelling drama. Case closed. I’m hoping to see Lucrezia Borgia return to us often.”
BACHTRACK
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“Here, in a traditional production by Eloise Lally, with handsome period designs by Adam Wiltshire and Cordelia Chisholm and magnificent costumes by Wiltshire, the cast delivers on every level”
The Stage
Camille Erlanger
Wexford Opera Festival 2023
Assistant Director
Director: Ella Marchment
Conductor: Guillame Tourniare / Christophe Manien
Design: Holly Piggot
Choreography: Luisa Baldinetti
Light: Daniele Naldi
Cast: Andreea Soare, Andrew Morstein, Giorgi Manoshvelli, Philipe Martin
Wexford Factory Artists & Chorus ‘23.
Music by Benjamin Britten
Text adapted from Henry James
Assistant Director
Garsington Opera. 2022
Director: Louisa Muller
Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
Design: Christopher Oram
Light: Malcom Rippeth
Cast: Susan Bickley, Verity Wingate, Rob Murray
Music & Text - Leos Janacek
Welsh National Opera. 2022
Revival Director
Director: Katie Mitchell
Conductor: Tomas Hanus
Design: Vicki Mortimer
Light: Nigel Edwards
Movement Direction: Struan Leslie
Reviews:
‘Katie Mitchell’s production for the Welsh National Opera was first seen in 1998 but has lost none of its claustrophobic power in the hands of revival director Eloise Lally. Dramatic gestures large and small are delivered with care and concision, aligned with the rhythmic subtlety emanating from the pit’
****Steph Power, The Stage
‘Shame flourishes in secrecy. It blossoms in the claustrophobic domestic interiors of Katie Mitchell’s 1998 Jenufa, revived here by Eloise Lally for Welsh National Opera’
****Rebecca Franks, The Times
‘This was a wholly compelling performance from cast, chorus and orchestra alike, embracing such empathy and commitment as to leave its audience deeply moved and more than a bit drained’
**** Rian Evans, The Guardian
created by Hooligan Art Community
Dramaturg
CCA DAKH and Dnipro Centre of Contemporary Culture (Ukraine) 2021.
Direction: Peter Cant
Movement: Matthis Kleinschnittger
Video: Liubov Sliusareva
Sound: Olyesia Onykiienko
Light: Natalka
Performers: Mirra Zhuchkova & Danylo Shramenko
Supported by Iportunas
Music - Richard Strauss | Text - Hofmannstahl
Gran Teatre del Liceu & Grand Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg. 2021.
Revival Director
Director: Katie Mitchell
Conductor: Josep Pons
Design: Chloe Lamford
Costume: Sarah Blenkinsop
Light: James Farncombe
Movement Direction: Joseph Alford
written by Louise Gooding
Theatre503, 2018.
Director
Design: Sarah Mercade
Lighting & Sound: Will Alder
Movement Direction: Rosa Reid
Stage Manager: Beth Mann
Cast: Tommy Burgess, Olivia Bromley, Josephine Rogers, Jeremy Drakes
Produced by Hannah Tookey, Laura Furner, Eloise Lally Productions.
Music - Emily Howard | Text - Selma Dimitrijevic
Snape Maltings, The Aldeburgh Festival, 2018.
Director: Dan Ayling
Conductor: Richard Baker
Design: Ana Ines Jabares Pitta
Lighting Design: Sally Ferguson
Cast: Nick Morris, Anna Dennis, Peter Savidge, Anne Mason, Dan Norman, Caryl Hughes, Nathan Vale.
Ensemble: BCMG
Photography by Stephen Cummiskey.
by William Shakespeare
Sarkia Stage, Kiika, Finland, 2016
Performed and Produced by Romulan Taiteellinen Teatrri Theatre Company
Translation: Kaarina Karjula
Design: Joanne Greenwood
written by Eva Edo
FirstBites Festival at Ovalhouse, 2018.
Cast: Amelia Walker, Victoria Porter, Will Taylor, Natasha Bain
Set & Costume: Amanda Mascarenas
Sound: Jonny Wharton
Movement Direction: Rosa Reid
Dramaturgy: Neil Grutchfield
Produced by Rua Arts
Funded by Arts Council England
Supported by Mountview Academy
by William Shakespeare
St Johns College, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival 2019.
Cast: Molly Murphy, Emily McCormick, Helena Fenton, Rhonwen Cash, Cameron Carmichael, Jasper Dweck, Emilio Cavacuitti, Matthew Gee.
by William Shakespeare
Robinson College, Cambridge Shakespeare Festival 2018
Cast: Alexander Gordon - Wood, Amy Hayes, LJ Reeves, Kit Loyd, Scott Loader, Tessa Hatts, Hattie Wilkinson, Georgina Barley, Steve Bergman, George Eddy.
Music - Jules Massenet | Text - Louis Gallet, Édouard Blau and Adolphe d'Ennery
Assistant Director
Dorset Opera Festival, 2018.
Director: Christopher Cowell
Conductor: Jeremy Carnall
Design: Steve Howell
Lighting: Marc Rosette
Costumes: Rebecca Hopkins
Chorus Master: Benjamin Goodson