International Opera & Theatre Director living out of a suitcase. Artistic Director of
12/05/2020
*** NEWS ***
We will be releasing our first piece this coming Friday 15th May at 19:30pm. Tune into our Youtube channel to see its premiere!
Following this we will also be able to share some trailers of our other pieces – including , and the fabulous work of , as well as some other brilliant operatic news.
But for now....
Introducing our first Friday release .
10/05/2020
Final week of preparation on “Edge of Time” for . Due for release on Friday May 15th at 19:30 pm on the Opera Harmony YouTube!
Cannot wait to show you our socially distanced creation between LA, The Netherlands and The U.K. Recorded on an iPhone and edited on an iPhone on iMovie. If you want to learn it, you can do it!
(But only with the never ending talent and energy from Daisy Boulton, Jo Meredith, and Johnny Stanley). Dream team!
06/05/2020
I have been catastrophically bad at posting here...
2020 started amazingly with directing at The Royal College, teaching at Guildhall, and then onto Dutch National Opera...
But then Coronavirus happened...
And I wanted to find ways to keep creating and uniting my global network.
The result is .
And it’s my Midyears resolution to keep you informed about it!
is a new project designed as a response to the Coronavirus pandemic. It seeks to assemble teams from across the globe to create new and exciting “micro-operitas” to be shared online. These short pieces will include work from composers, librettists, directors and singers who record ...
“Ella Marchment’s Direction Balances Comedy, Violence & Melancholia” - Opera Wire
The high and low notes from around the international opera stage
30/10/2019
"L’inganno felice as a herald of great things to come: ‘Here genius bursts forth from all quarters’. And, we were treated to an excellent staging by director Ella Marchment...Marchment demonstrated a sure sense of how to balance the opposing moods of the semiseria plot. Yes, there was an exuberant, erotic dream-escapade during the overture --but thereafter all was rooted in reality: a sooty, grimy and briny reality..." - Opera Today
Toi Toi Toi for show number 2 team!
23/10/2019
Tremendous opening night of for Wexford Festival last night! Wonderful atmosphere and fantastic team. Privileged to have been part of this journey.
22/10/2019
I’ve had a wonderful time assisting on this fabulous piece at Wexford Festival with a hugely talented group of artists. Bring on opening night! ❤️
22/09/2019
Week 1 rehearsals are done. Now for a triathlon Sunday and taking stock of the weeks work in preparation for S&P’s on Monday and starting to direct L’Inganno Felice on Tuesday...
07/09/2019
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Welcome to my page. This is my own artist page in which I am able to publish news and insights to what I am woking on.
I am an opera director, cultural leader, and public speaker, who is represented by Day Macaskill of Cruickshank Cazenove in London.
In 2015 I became the first opera director to receive an International Opera Awards bursary, and in 2018 was both an arts-and-culture finalist in the Women of The Year awards and a semi-finalist in the European Opera-Directing Prize.
I have worked throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, and America, and my directing credits include L’inganno felice (Wexford Festival Opera); The Turn of the Screw and Mad King Suibhne (Bury Court Opera); International Opera Awards Ceremony (ENO London Coliseum and Sadler’s Wells Theatre / International Opera Awards); Operatic Mass Actions (European City of Culture, AUT DK); SWAP’ra Gala (Opera Holland Park); Tryl / Magic Flute (Copenhagen Opera Festival); Sideshows(Sadler’s Wells Studio); Il Letto and Hathaway (Buxton International Festival, Copenhagen Opera Festival, Grimeborn); L’occasione fa il ladro (CCF Glasgow, Teatro Signorelli, Teatro di Cortona); Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Teatro Tuoro sul Trasimeno); King Roger (a film for Random Acts / Channel 4); Salon Russe (National Portrait Gallery); Il Tabarro (LSO St Luke’s); Macbeth and Un ballo in maschera (Opera Integra); María De Buenos Aires (The Vaults London / A Curious Invitation); Louise and Otello(Buxton International Festival); An Evening with Lucian Freud (Leicester Square Theatre); Stand and Deliver (King’s Head Theatre); Rock Tosca (Tête à Tête Festival); Façade and Eight Songs For a Mad King (Rose Theatre Kingston, Arcola Theatre, St Petersburg Philharmonia); Triptych (Mariinsky II); and The Bear, Bare, and Red as Blood(Rose Theatre Kingston, Sage Gateshead, Greyfriars Kirk, St Cyprian’s).
I have assisted actress and director Fiona Shaw on a range of productions, including Cendrillon (RADA workshops for Glyndebourne), Medea (Wexford Festival Opera), and L’enfance du Christ (DSO Berlin). Other credits include being the associate director for Mary Birnbaum’s production of Dido & Aeneas (Juilliard Opera) in New York, London, and Paris, and the assistant director for Rodula Gaitanou’s production of Don Quichotte (Wexford Festival Opera) in Eire.
For eight years, I worked as a staff director at Buxton International Festival, directing cover productions of The Jacobin, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucio Silla, and Leonore and assisting Stephen Unwin, Stephen Medcalf, and Harry Silverstein. I have also worked for Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and been a principal speaker at events held at the Royal Opera House, Welsh National Opera, the Wiener Institute, Opera Europa (Netherlands), Arts Council England, and the Southbank Centre.
I am first and foremost a music (pianist and cellist), and hold a first-class honours degree in music – with German and Italian – from King’s College London and the Royal Academy of Music, as well as postgraduate qualifications in set design and teaching drama.
Thank you for joining me on this journey. I promise the other posts will be more interesting than my biography.