Adele Thomas

Director

Biography

From Wales, Adele Thomas studied at Cambridge University, where she is an Honorary Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. She is a recipient of the RTYDS bursary for future artistic leaders and an invitee to the National Theatre Studio young directors’ course in 2005. Her opera work includes Un ballo in maschera (Zurich Opera); Rigoletto (Welsh National Opera); Semele (Glyndebourne); Il trovatore (Zurich, ROH); In the Realms of Sorrow (London Handel Festival/Stone Nest); Bajazet (Irish National Opera, ROH); Apollo e Dafne and Berenice (ROH) and Così fan tutte (Northern Ireland Opera). Bajazet and Berenice were nominated for the Best New Opera Production award at the Olivier Awards. Her theatre work includes The Memory of Water (Nottingham Playhouse); The Weir (English Touring Theatre); Macbeth (Tobacco Factory); Eyam, The Oreseia, The Knight of the Burning Pestle and Thomas Tallis (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Golden Hours (Royal Court Theatre’s Unusual Unions); The Bloody Ballad and The Forsythe Sisters (Gagglebabble); The Passion and The Passion: One Year On (Project Associate, National Theatre Wales) and Under Milk Wood (Royal & Derngate).

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Il trovatore

Verdi’s opera of obsession and superstition returns to the Royal Opera House.

Three actors stand on stage, two are crouched at either side of the central actor and they are wearing horned helmets. They are faced by an army wearing helmets.

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