"Barlow has a conspicuous talent: international opera houses should be knocking at his door"

Edward Seckerson, The Independent, July 2010

"Stephen Barlow has become one of the most talked about opera directors within the last couple of years" 

Keith McDonell, What's On Stage, March 2011

                                        

                                                                                 Photo by Robert Workman

Stephen Barlow is an Australian born, London based opera 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
• San Francisco Opera
• Chicago Lyric Opera
• The Santa Fe Opera
• Opéra Monte Carlo
• Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
• Bucharest National Opera
• Wexford Festival Opera
• Opera Holland Park
• Singapore Lyric Opera
• Mid Wales Opera
• British Youth Opera
• Royal Academy of Music
  
• Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Stephen's production of Tosca (pictured above) in London was unanimously praised as a landmark production and described by The Guardian as "the most brilliantly original production of Tosca to be seen in this country for decades".


Current and future projects include directing new productions of:  

• Rigoletto  Bucharest National Opera
• La Fanciulla del West  Opera Holland Park 
• La Traviata  Singapore Lyric Opera
• Donizetti/Debussy Double Bill  Guildhall