Stephen Barlow is an Australian, 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

Scottish Opera

Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

Central CIty Opera, Colorado

Bucharest National Opera

Bucharest National Opereta

Opera Holland Park (UK)

Grange Festival (UK)

Wexford Festival Opera

Singapore Lyric Opera

Mid Wales Opera

and also directed for leading opera & musical theatre academies in London, the UK & abroad:

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Royal Academy of Music

British Youth Opera

Guildford School of Acting (GSA), University of Surrey

London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts (LAMDA)

Arts Educational Schools

Mountview Theatre Academy

London School of Musical Theatre (LSMT)

Academy of Performing Arts (APA), Hong Kong

Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University (QCGU), Australia

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

Roméo et Juliette - Estonian National Opera, Tallinn

La fedeltà premiata - Guildhall, London

The Phantom of the Opera - Athens & Thessaloniki (Greek Premiere) CANCELLED

Mansfield Park  - RNCM, UK CANCELLED

La Cenerentola - Grange Festival, UK CANCELLED

The Barber of Seville - Santa Fe Opera, USA

Béatrice et Bénédict - QCGU, Australia