Biography
Stephen Langridge studied Drama at Exeter University. He then spent several years working as assistant director for the cutting edge company, Opera Factory, while developing his own work, often in unconventional spaces with unconventional people. He continues working as a double agent, spending time each year creating new work with integrated groups of disabled and non-disabled people, and also directing opera at some of the most prestigious European houses including, this season, the world premiere of Birtwistle's The Minotaur at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and Verdi's Otello in the Grosses Festspielhaus, at the 2008 Salzburger Festspiele.
Opera productions include:
Salome (Strauss) - Malmö Opera;
Orphee (Gluck) - Greek National Opera;
Ritter Blaubart (Offenbach) - Bregenzer Festspiele;
Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) & Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) - Grange Park Opera;
Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart) - Opera Ystad, Sweden;
Misper, Zoe, & Tangier Tattoo (Lunn/Plaice) - Glyndebourne;
The Io Passion (Birtwistle) - Aldeburgh Almeida Opera & Bregenzer Festspiele;
Arianna in Creta (Handel) & The Turn of the Screw (Britten) - National Reisopera, Holland;
Semele (Handel) - Buxton Festival;
Orfeo (Monteverdi) - Tokyo Opera City;
Giulio Cesare (Handel) - Opera de Bordeaux;
The Mask of Orpheus (Birtwistle) - Royal Festival Hall.
Stephen is well known for his education, development, and training work (projects in France, Spain, Germany, Finland, Holland, Sweden, Senegal, South Africa, and throughout the UK), and for his theatre work in unusual settings, including West Side Story (Bernstein) and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) with large casts of prisoners in various British high security prisons, and Ngoma, a multi-racial music and theatre project in South African townships. (See the "Education and Development" page for more about this work.)
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Opera productions include:
Salome (Strauss) - Malmö Opera;
Orphee (Gluck) - Greek National Opera;
Ritter Blaubart (Offenbach) - Bregenzer Festspiele;
Maria Stuarda (Donizetti) & Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) - Grange Park Opera;
Cosi Fan Tutte (Mozart) - Opera Ystad, Sweden;
Misper, Zoe, & Tangier Tattoo (Lunn/Plaice) - Glyndebourne;
The Io Passion (Birtwistle) - Aldeburgh Almeida Opera & Bregenzer Festspiele;
Arianna in Creta (Handel) & The Turn of the Screw (Britten) - National Reisopera, Holland;
Semele (Handel) - Buxton Festival;
Orfeo (Monteverdi) - Tokyo Opera City;
Giulio Cesare (Handel) - Opera de Bordeaux;
The Mask of Orpheus (Birtwistle) - Royal Festival Hall.
Stephen is well known for his education, development, and training work (projects in France, Spain, Germany, Finland, Holland, Sweden, Senegal, South Africa, and throughout the UK), and for his theatre work in unusual settings, including West Side Story (Bernstein) and Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) with large casts of prisoners in various British high security prisons, and Ngoma, a multi-racial music and theatre project in South African townships. (See the "Education and Development" page for more about this work.)
Current projects include:
Otello (Verdi) - Teatro dell'Opera, Rome; Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau) - National Reisopera; Rigoletto (Verdi) Vienna Volksoper; La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz) Lyric Opera of Chicago.