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.

 

 

Opera productions include:

La Boheme (Puccini) Nationale Reisopera

Wake (Klass de Vries/David Mitchell) Nationale Reisopera

La Damnation de Faust (Berlioz) Lyric Opera, Chicago

Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau) - Nationale Reisopera

Rigoletto (Verdi) - Volksoper Wien

Otello (Verdi) - Salzburg Festival and Opera di Roma

The Minotaur (Birtwistle), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

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) - National Reisopera, Holland

The Turn of the Screw (Britten) -     NRO                                      

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 opera projects include: Don Carlo Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos, Lisbon; Lohengrin Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm; and Parsifal at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.