Recent and future work includes Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne)‚ Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean (Royal National Theatre) and Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival)‚ all with Jonathan Kent; Elektra (Salzburg) and Parsifal (ENO) with Nikolaus Lehnhoff; Ariadne auf Naxos (WNO‚ as revival director); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Toronto) with Neil Armfield.
Denni Sayers’s early work was as choreographer and assistant director on numerous productions with Opera Northern Ireland; then as choreographer on Medea (Opera North/ Phyllida Lloyd); Maria Stuarda (Scottish Opera/ Stefan Lazaridis); and Orfeo ed Euridice (New Israeli Opera /Michael McCaffery).
She has choreographed for Oedipus (Royal National Theatre) and Die Frau ohne Schatten (St Petersburg) with Jonathan Kent; Cyrano de Bergerac‚ Carmen‚ Paul Bunyan and The Bartered Bride (The Royal Opera House‚ Covent Garden)‚ Boris Godunov (English National Opera)‚ Rebecca (Vienna)‚ Arshak 11 (San Francisco)‚ Peter Grimes (Amsterdam)‚ Boris Godunov and War and Peace (Bastille)‚ Porgy and Bess (Washington)‚ L’Amour des Trois Oranges and Carmen(Sydney)‚ The Little Prince (Houston‚ Milwaukee‚ Boston and BBC TV)‚ and Of Mice and Men (Bregenz)‚ Carmen (Oslo)‚ Porgy and Bess (Chicago and San Francisco) - all with Francesca Zambello; La Fanciulla del West (Amsterdam)‚ Parsifal (English National Opera‚ San Francisco and Chicago)‚ Der fliegende Holländer (San Francisco)‚ Lohengrin and Eugene Onegin (Baden Baden)‚ Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Zürich)‚ Henze’s Boulevard Solitude (ROH and Genova)‚ Die Gezeichneten (Salzburg)‚ Fidelio (Salzburg and Lyon)‚ Turandot (Amsterdam)‚ Rigoletto (Dresden) and The Bartered Bride (Glyndebourne) - all with Nikolaus Lehnhoff; Der Vögelhändler (Berlin/ Danny Slater); Sweeney Todd (Chicago)‚ Ariadne auf Naxos and Don Carlos (Welsh National Opera)‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Houston)‚ Peter Grimes (Sydney) - all with Neil Armfield; Pirates of Penzance (Chicago/ Elijah Moshinsky); Aida (WNO/ John Caird); and The Bassarids (Amsterdam/ Peter Stein).
As director‚ work includes the revivals of Of Mice and Men (Washington) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Boston); new productions of Tosca (Toronto)‚ West Side Story (Tel-Aviv)‚ and Rachel Portman’s The Water Diviner’s Tale; and two Dr Who concerts (BBC Proms).
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