James Hurley - Opera Director

James is a young director working primarily in opera. He is a graduate of Cambridge University, where he read English and completed an MPhil in American Literature, specialising in dramatist David Mamet.

His productions include Carmen (Sadler's Wells); Aida, The Elixir of Love (Epsom Playhouse); The Mikado (Cambridge Arts Theatre); The Bartered Bride, Madama Butterfly (Harlequin Theatre, Redhill); Semele, The Magic Flute, Venus and Adonis, Dido and Aeneas (Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London); Suor Angelica (Trinity Chapel, Cambridge); Savitri/Hymns from the Rig Veda (Cambridge Round Church); Don Giovanni, Les Incas du Pérou (West Road Concert Hall); States of Shock (ADC Theatre); Tape (Bateman Auditorium).

James has worked at English National Opera, Opera North, English Touring Opera, and Opera Holland Park, assisting on productions by Tim Albery, Martin Duncan, Daniel Kramer, Catherine Malfitano, James Conway, Liam Steel, Giles Havergal, and Martin Lloyd-Evans.

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