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Love Life

A musical by Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner
conductor: James Holmesset, costume: Zahra Mansourilighting: Howard Hudsonchoreography: Will Tuckett
Opera North (2025)Broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Nominated for an International Opera Award 2025
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ the Telegraph, the Arts Desk
★ ★ ★ ★ the Guardian, the Times, the Stage
“ingeniously staged by Matthew Eberhardt” the Times
“minimalist but highly effective staging by Matthew Eberhardt… you feel it has touched a nerve and, performed with this continuous vigour, has also reinvented a genre” the Telegraph

Les pêcheurs de perles

An opera by Georges Bizet
conductor: Matthew Kofi Waldren
set, costume & video: Joanna Parker
lighting & video: Peter Mumford
movement: Laila Diallo
Opera North (2023)
★ ★ ★ ★ the Arts Desk, Bachtrack

A Midsummer Night's Dream

An opera by Benjamin Britten
conductor: James Southall
set: Kezi Ferguson
costume: Yumu Lin
lighting: Caitlin Park
movement: Michael White
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (2024)

Cendrillon

An opera by Jules Massenet
conductor: Paul Wingfield
set: Chloe Matthew
costume: students from the London College of Fashion
lighting: Luca Panetta
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (2024)

Three Decembers & The Medium

An opera double bill by Jake Heggie & Gian Carlo Menotti
conductor: William Cole
set, costume: Anna Yates
lighting: Charlotte Burton
movement: Jack Webb
Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2024)

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

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, 2021) – 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

Photo credits: Love Life & Pecheurs – James Glossop, Cendrillon & Vixen – Greg Milner, Dream & Die Fledermaus – Kirsten McTernan, Double Bill – Robbie McFadzdean, Street Scene – Clive Barda, Trouble in Tahiti – Alastair Muir

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