Stephen Barlow is an Australian born, London based opera & musical theatre director.

He has staged productions for many of the world's leading opera companies including:

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

The Metropolitan Opera, New York

Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Danish National Opera

San Francisco Opera

Chicago Lyric Opera

The Santa Fe Opera

Opéra Monte Carlo

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Bucharest National Opera

Bucharest National Opereta

Wexford Festival Opera

Opera Holland Park

Singapore Lyric Opera

Mid Wales Opera

and also directed/taught for the leading opera & musical theatre academies in London:

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Royal Academy of Music

British Youth Opera

London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA)

Arts Educational Schools

Guildford School of Acting, University of Surrey

Mountview Theatre Academy

London School of Musical Theatre

Recent, current and future projects include directing new productions of:

Madama Butterfly - Danish National Opera

Cosi fan tutte - Central City Opera (Colorado)

Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi - Hong Kong APA

State Fair - Guildford School of Acting 

Les Deux Enfants - Brisbane

Flight - Scottish Opera

The Phantom of the Opera - Oslo (Norwegian Premiere)

Tosca - Reisopera