Daisy Evans

Daisy Evans works in opera, film and theatre as a director and writer. She won the Royal Philharmonic Society opera award and the Canadian Dora award for best director for her production of Bluebeard’s Castle. Notable productions include The Magic Flute for Welsh National Opera, Peter Pan – The Dark Side for Fondazione Haydn, Bluebeard’s Castle for Theatre of Sound, The Telephone for Edinburgh International Festival and Scottish Opera, Don Pasquale for Welsh National Opera, La traviata for Longborough Festival Opera, King Arthur for the Academy of Ancient Music at the Barbican, Falstaff for Wilton’s Music Hall and Fulham Opera and Awakening Shadow for the Glyndebourne Festival. As founder director of Silent Opera, she has directed new versions of Hansel and Gretel, The Cunning Little Vixen, Don Giovanni, L’Orfeo, La bohème and Dido and Aeneas. As librettist, her English translations include The Magic Flute, Bluebeard’s Castle and Don Pasquale. In 2023/24, she worked as a revival director for Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s Madama Butterfly at The Royal Opera, and later made her directorial debut at the House with L’Olimpiade, in the Linbury Theatre.