Les pêcheurs de perles

An opera by Georges Bizet

conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren
set, costume & video: Joanna Parker
lighting & video: Peter Mumford
movement: Laila Dialo

Opera North (2023)

★ ★ ★ ★ the Arts Desk, Bachtrack

The Cunning Little Vixen

An opera by Leoš Janáček

conductor: Paul Wingfield
set: Jess Ingram
lighting: Alex Musgrave

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2023)

Die Fledermaus

An operetta by Johann Straus II

conductor: Alice Farnham
set: Shane Erickson
costume: Mariella Bucci
lighting: Yuqi Zhou
movement: Daniel Hay-Gordon

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (2022)

Street Scene

An opera by Kurt Weill, Elmer Rice, Langston Hughes

conductor: Jim Holmes
set and costume: Francis O’Connor
lighting: Howard Hudson
movement: Gary Clarke

Opera North (2020)
Theatre Magdeburg (2021)
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3

Nominated for a South Bank Sky Arts Award in the opera category
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ the Times, the Arts Desk, Younger Theatre
★ ★ ★ ★ the Guardian, Stage, Bachtrack, the Observer, the Reviews Hub

“Matthew Eberhardt’s new staging for Opera North presents this with forensic attention to detail… a special show that I’d pay to see again.” the Times

Fidelio

An opera by Beethoven, in a concert staging

conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
livestream director: Peter Maniura
lighting: Mike Lock

Opera North (2020) – Live streamed from Leeds Town Hall

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ the Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Stage, the Observer

A Piece of Monologue & A Duet for One Voice

Two monologues by Samuel Beckett and Jean Cocteau
Presented as part of the Connecting Voices Festival
Featuring musicians Keertan Kaur Rehal and Alasdair Roberts

Leeds Playhouse (2020)
lighting: Tigger Johnson

Trouble in Tahiti

An opera by Leonard Bernstein

conductor: Tobias Ringborg
set: Charlie Edwards
costume: Hannah Clark
lighting: Charlie Edwards and Ben Pickersgill
movement: Tim Claydon

Opera North (2017) – Leeds Grand, Nottingham Royal, Newcastle Royal, The Lowry
Filmed by The Space and broadcast on Sky Arts and OperaVision
Broadcast by BBC Radio 3

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ whatsonstage, the Arts Desk
★ ★ ★ ★ the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Times

“a poleaxing 40 minutes of psychological truths mercilessly laid bare… taut, compelling and nerve-bristling – and is directed with a sure sense of style” whatsonstage

Billy Budd

An opera by Benjamin Britten, in a concert staging
based on Orpha Phelin’s 2016 Opera North production

conductor: Garry Walker
lighting: Mike Lock

Opera North (2017) – Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ the Guardian, the Financial Times, Bachtrack

“When delivered with the simple brilliance of Matthew Eberhardt’s version for Aldeburgh, music and drama unite in perpetual trepidation” the Guardian

Photo credits: Pecheurs – James Glossop,Vixen – Greg Milner, Die Fledermaus – Kirsten McTernan, Street Scene – Clive Barda, Fidelio – Richard H Smith, Connecting Voices – Anthony Robling, Trouble in Tahiti – Alastair Muir, Billy Budd – Sam Murray-Sutton