TIM ALBERY
director
Grimes on the Beach | Aldeburgh Festival | Directed by Tim Albery | Designed by Leslie Travers | Lighting by Lucy Carter (Photograph: Andrew Lamb)
Tim's recent work includes: Capriccio for Garsington Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos at Santa Fe Opera, Arabella at San Francisco Opera, Cosi fan tutte at Royal Danish Opera, The Coronation of Poppea at Opera Theatre Saint Louis, Silent Night for Opera North.
“The stunning new production by British stage director Tim Albery met the inordinate requirements of Berlioz’s magnum opus with vigorous dramatic intelligence and spectacular but spare visual flair”
Other directing work in North America includes: Les Troyens, Tannhäuser (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Arabella, Aida, War and Peace, Rodelinda and Götterdämmerung (Canadian Opera Company); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Widow (Metropolitan Opera, New York); Capriccio, La finta giardiniera, Arabella and Die Zauberflöte (Santa Fe); Don Carlo (Washington National Opera / Opera Philadelphia); The Lighthouse and Kat’á Kabanová (Boston); The Aspern Papers (Dallas) and Don Carlos, Passion (Minnesota Opera).
Select other credits include: Simon Boccanegra, Ariadne auf Naxos (Bavarian State Opera); Benvenuto Cellini (Netherlands Opera); and La Wally (Bregenz Festival).
“Tim Albery’s affectionate production underscores, the balance between words and music — and between comedy and sentiment — is kept in finely tuned equilibrium in this opera beloved of Strauss connoisseurs”
Tim has a close relationship with Opera North, where his many productions include Un Ballo in Maschera, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Così fan tutte, Fidelio, Macbeth, Don Carlos, Otello, Les Troyens (also Welsh National Opera), Madama Butterfly and Kat’á Kabanová. He has directed several productions for English National Opera, including Peter Grimes, Billy Budd and Boris Godunov. For Scottish Opera, his productions include a highly acclaimed Der Ring des Nibelungen. In 2013 he directed Grimes on the Beach for Aldeburgh Festival.
“Tim Albery’s intelligent production of Puccini’s clash-of-civilisations weepie looks like being an excellent investment for Opera North”
Tim Albery made his Royal Opera debut in 1994 with Chérubin and has since directed Nabucco (1996), Der fliegende Holländer (2009), Tannhäuser (2010) and the world premiere of Pleasure (co-production between The Royal Opera, Aldeburgh Music and Opera North.)
In contemporary opera, he has directed Mark Simpson' Pleasure (ROH, Aldeburgh, Opera North); R. Murray Schafer’s The Children’s Crusade (Luminato Festival, Toronto), Brian Current’s Airline Icarus (Soundstreams, Toronto) and John Harris’s M’dea Undone (Tapestry Opera, Toronto).
In theatre, Tim has directed productions including Hell’s Fury (Luminato Festival), Attempts on Her Life (Royal Court), Wallenstein and Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company), Berenice (National Theatre) and Nathan the Wise (Toronto).
Les Troyens | Lyric Opera of Chicago | Directed by Tim Albery | Set & Costumes by Tobias Hoheisel | Lighting by David Finn (Photograph by Ted Rosenberg)