As a leader of education, development and training Stephen Langridge has worked in Holland, France, Spain, Germany, Finland, Senegal, South Africa, Ireland, and across the UK (where he has run projects for most of the opera companies, and many of the orchestras).


Stephen Langridge running a Share Music training day in Sweden.

This work falls into three main catagories: large-scale community performances pieces such as Zoe and Misper, operas for (and starring) young people, both by John Lunn and Stephen Plaice (Glyndebourne),  Julius Caesar Shakespeare (60 inmates of HMP Bullingdon) and West Side Story (HMPs Bullingdon & Wandsworth, & Mountjoy in Dublin), or For The Public Good by Orlando Gough(500 amateur singers, and a scattering of professionals, for English National Opera); devised work, sometimes using existing repertoire as a starting point, in schools, prisons, hospitals;  training and professional development, training professional artists to lead education work (LPO/Glyndebourne, Britten Pears School), working with composers and librettists to make music theatre (Performance Arts Labs, Aldeburgh Residencies), or skills building workshops with young professional singers (British Youth Opera, Fundación La Caixa).

Mary King and Stephen Langridge rehearsing For The Public Good by Orlando Gough at the London Coliseum, a community opera starring a chorus of 500 in the Coliseum stalls.