DAISY EVANS
director, writer, librettist
Falstaff | Wiltons Music Hall / Grimeborn | Directed & Designed by Daisy Evans | Lighting by Jake Wiltshire (Photograph by Michael John White)
Director Daisy Evans is the Artistic Director of Silent Opera, as well as a freelance writer, director, librettist & designer. Her opera librettos include new translations and interpretations of Cunning Little Vixen, Don Giovanni and Don Pasquale. She is commissioned to write her first play, which will be directed by her in London.
She is the winner of ‘Best Opera’ at the OffWestEnd awards, nominated for Best Young Director at the International Opera awards, scholarship holder at the Sky Arts Academy and alumni of the L‘Académie du Festival d’Aix. Daisy spoke on the ‘Encouraging Innovation’ panel at Opera Europa and she is a regular contributor to the Glyndebourne Opera Cup.
As founder director of Silent Opera, she develops, directs and redefines opera for new audiences. The company has achieved international status securing co-productions with ROH, ENO, the Beijing Music Festiva and Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento.
Directing credits include: Don Pasquale (Welsh National Opera), La bohème (Hampstead Garden Opera), La Traviata (Longborough Festival Opera), Cosi fan tutte (Bury Court Opera), The Cunning Little Vixen (Silent Opera/English National Opera), The Fairy Queen and King Arthur (Barbican/Academy of Ancient Music), Giovanni (Silent Opera/Beijing Music Festival), A Garden Dream (Glyndebourne), Falstaff (Grimeborn Festival, Wilton’s Music Hall), Shopera:Carmen (Royal Opera House), The Bear & A Dinner Engagement (Royal Academy of Music), L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Snape Proms), Wakening Shadow (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), and L’Orfeo (Silent Opera).