Frederic Wake-Walker is the newly appointed Artistic Director of The Opera Group. He grew up in Suffolk where he sang the treble roles in three Britten operas at Snape Maltings‚ and is now based in London working as a freelance director. He has a Masters in Philosophy and Systematic Theology from the University of Edinburgh.
Future plans include Britten’s Church Parables in St Petersburg‚ Tokyo and at several UK Festivals‚ Gloria: A Pig Tale for Bregenz Festival and a new production of a Mozart opera for the 2014 Glyndebourne Festival.
Recent directing includes Jephtha (Buxton Festival)‚ three new commissions for Scottish Opera in FIVE:15‚ Little England: Scenes from a Small Island (La Monnaie‚ Brussels)‚ Schoenberg’s Erwartung to open the Britten Studio at Snape Maltings‚ a new commission The Yellow Sofa and Followers (Glyndebourne)‚ Die Zauberflöte (Glyndebourne on Tour)‚ Birtwhistle’s Bow Down (The Opera Group‚ Latitude Festival)‚ the fiftieth anniversary performances of Noye’s Fludde by Britten at Orford Church (the venue of the first performance)‚ Hansel & Gretel (Opera North)‚ Brundibar by Hans Krasa and The Little Sweep (Jubilee Opera)‚ Birtwistle’s Secret Theatre (Royal Academy of Music)‚ Russian Tales with Mahogany Opera‚ Laborintus 11 at LSO St Lukes with Mahogany Opera and Aurora‚ the premiere of Rory Boyle’s Kaspar Hauser- Child of Europe and Albert Herring at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama‚ a double bill of Mavra and Renard for the Jerwood Project at Glyndebourne‚ a revival of Tim Albery’s production of Kat’a Kabanova (Oviedo).
He formed Mahogany Opera in 2003 to create site specific work that explores innovative ways of presenting opera. With Mahogany he has directed and produced Russian Tales: The Fox by Stravinsky and The Bear by Walton at the Jubilee Hall‚ Aldeburgh and the Village Underground‚ Shoreditch‚ Britten’s Curlew River at St Mary’s Cathedral‚ Edinburgh which then toured to East Anglia and Southwark Cathedral‚ Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona and Not in Front of the Waiter by Offenbach at the Jubilee Hall‚ Aldeburgh and Walton’s The Bear at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This season’s project is Towards a New Movement‚ an exploration with multi-disciplined singers and dancers of Berio’s Laborintus II and Blacher’s Abstrakte Oper Nr. 1. www.mahoganyopera.org.uk
He has worked as assistant director at the Royal Opera House‚ Covent Garden‚ Glyndebourne Festival‚ Opera North‚ Los Angeles Opera‚ New York City Opera‚ Innsbrucker Festwochen der Altenmusik and Netherlands Opera.
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