Conductor
Stephen Barlow’s career as a symphonic and opera conductor has taken him all over the world and stretched over nearly five decades. Engagements have included San Francisco, Detroit, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, Florida Grand Opera in Miami, Vienna, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Stuttgart, Nancy, Seville, Bilbao, Lisbon, Catania, Palermo, Amsterdam, Sofia, Riga, Belgrade, Tirana, Beijing, Singapore, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Auckland, Wellington, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Dublin and Wexford Festival.
At home his work has been with all the major orchestras and opera companies, including long associations with Glyndebourne Festival Opera, ENO, Grange Park Opera and engagements at Covent Garden. He was a founding conductor of Opera80 and the Garsington Opera Festival, and Artistic Director of Buxton Festival, Opera Northern Ireland in Belfast and Brisbane’s QPO. Stephen’s operatic and symphonic repertoire is vast, from Bach to contemporary music, the bulk of which has included specialisms in Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and Strauss.
| Composer | Title | Companies |
|---|---|---|
| Mozart | La Nozze di Figaro | Opera North Leeds, Garsington Opera x2, Opera80 x2 |
| Das Entführung dem Serail | Garsington Opera, English National Opera, Opera80 | |
| Cosi fan Tutte | Glyndebourne Touring Opera x2, English Touring Opera | |
| Die Zauberflöte | Royal Opera House, Victoria State Opera Melbourne, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire | |
| Idomeneo | Opera Northern Ireland Belfast, De Paul University Chicago | |
| Don Giovanni | New Zealand Opera Auckland | |
| Britten | Peter Grimes | Grange Park Opera |
| Midsummer Night’s Dream | GSMD | |
| The Rape of Lucretia | Opera Collective Dublin | |
| Albert Herring | Garsington Opera | |
| Owen Wingrave | Opera Collective Dublin | |
| Beethoven | Leonore | Musica nel Chiostro Batignano, Buxton Festival |
| Fidelio | Opera Northern Ireland Belfast | |
| Puccini | Turandot | Royal Opera House, Florida Grand Opera Miami, Lausanne Opera |
| La Boheme | English National Opera, Grange Park Opera x2 | |
| Madama Butterfly | Vancouver Opera, Opera Ireland Dublin, Opera North Leeds, Grange Park Opera | |
| Tosca | Vancouver Opera, Dublin Grand Opera Society | |
| La Fanciulla del West | Grange Park Opera | |
| Gianni Schicchi | Guildhall School of Music | |
| Richard Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier | Glyndebourne Festival Opera x2, Dublin Grand Opera Society |
| Arabella | Glyndebourne Festival Opera x2 | |
| Die Schweigsame Frau | Glyndebourne Festival Opera | |
| Intermezzo | Opera North Leeds, Scottish Opera Glasgow, Buxton Festival | |
| Capriccio | San Francisco Opera, Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania, Grange Park Opera | |
| Elektra | Teatro Maestranza Seville | |
| Ariadne auf Naxos | Nederlandse Opera, Guildhall School of Music | |
| Verdi | Falstaff | Garsington Opera, Grange Park Opera, Guildhall School of Music London, Opera80 |
| Rigoletto | Queensland Opera Brisbane, Albanian State Opera Tirana | |
| Il Trovatore | New Zealand Opera Auckland | |
| Macbeth | Buxton Festival | |
| Otello | Birmingham Opera Company | |
| Alzira | Buxton Festival | |
| Ballo in Maschera | Opera80 | |
| Aida | New Sussex Opera | |
| Nabucco | Western Australian Opera Perth | |
| Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | English National Opera, Nederlandse Opera, Latvian National Opera Riga, Opera80 |
| Cenerentola | Staatsoper Stuttgart, English National Opera, Nederlandse Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Opera80 | |
| Otello | Buxton Festival | |
| l’italiana in Algeri | Garsington, English National Opera | |
| Bizet | Carmen | English National Opera, State Opera S Australia Adelaide |
| Berlioz | Damnation de Faust | English National Opera |
| Beatrice et Benedict | Chelsea Opera Group | |
| Gounod | Faust | Teatro Maestranza Seville, Western Australia S Opera Perth |
| Romeo et Juliette | Western Australia S Opera Perth, Grange Park Opera, Opera Northern Ireland Belfast | |
| La Colombe | Buxton Festival | |
| Charpentier | Louise | Buxton Festival |
| Donizetti | Lucia di Lammermoor | Dublin Grand Opera Society, Buxton Festival, Opera80 |
| Il Campanello | Guildhall School of Music | |
| Nicholas Maw | Rising of the Moon | Guildhall School of Music |
| Tchaikovsky | Eugene Onegin | Opera80, Grange Park Opera |
| Pique Dame | English National Opera, Grange Park Opera, New Sussex Opera | |
| Stravinsky | Rakes Progress | Glyndebourne Touring Opera x2, Nancy Opera, Vancouver Opera, Nederlandse Reisopera Enschede, Opera80 |
| Mavra | Guildhall School of Music | |
| Renard | Buxton Festival | |
| Bellini | i Capuletti e Montecchi | Teatro Massimo Bellini Catania |
| Norma | Grange Park Opera | |
| La Straniera | Chelsea Opera Group | |
| Dvorak | Rusalka | Grange Park Opera x2 |
| The Jacobin | Buxton Festival, Chelsea Opera Group | |
| Smetana | Bartered Bride | Scottish Opera |
| Poulenc | Dialogues des Carmélites | Grange Park Opera |
| Humperdinck | Hansel und Gretel | Scottish Opera |
| Bartok | Bluebeard’s Castle | Auckland Philharmonia |
| Gluck | Orfeo | Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Opera Atelier Toronto |
| Delius | Koanga | Wexford Festival Opera |
| Cherubini | Medea | Wexford Festival Opera |
| Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Grange Park Opera x2 |
| Die Walküre | Grange Park Opera | |
| Der Fliegende Holländer | English National Opera | |
| Cornelius | Barber of Baghdad | Buxton Festival |
| Ravel | L’Heure Espagnole | Guildhall School of Music |
| Oliver Knussen | Where the Wild Things Are | Glyndebourne Festival Opera |
| Offenbach | Tales of Hoffmann | National Centre for the Arts Beijing |
| La Perichole | Riverside Studios London | |
| Stephen Oliver | Exposition of a Picture | Royal Academy of Arts London, Buxton Festival |
| Saint-Saens | La Princesse Jaune | Buxton Festival |
| Todd | Alice’s Adventures | Opera Collective Dublin |
| Wallen | Cautionary Tales | Opera Collective Dublin |
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