ORPHA  PHELAN

Based in London, Orpha Phelan hails from Co. Kilkenny, Ireland. Most recently she has directed Tamerlano for the London Handel Festival. For Irish National Opera she has directed Norma, La Bohème, Don Pasquale (Irish Times Theatre Award Nominee: Best Opera), La Cenerentola (Irish Times Theatre Award Nominee: Best Production). She has directed Le Convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali and Lalla-Roukh (Irish Times Theatre Award Nominee: Best Opera) for Wexford Festival Opera. She has directed Billy Budd and I Capuleti e i Montecchi for Opera North/Opera Australia, and Fidelio for Longborough. Further afield she has directed La Bohème for Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier, Wuthering Heights for Opéra National de Lorraine, A Quiet Place for Opera Zuid (Winner of Place de l'Opera: Best Opera Award Netherlands), Powder Her Face and Dead Man Walking for Royal Danish Opera (both Winners of The Reumert Award: Best Opera Production), Dead Man Walking for Den Norse, Jenufa (released by Arthaus Musik on DVD), Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Fiddler on the Roof and La Bohème (released by Naxos on DVD) for Malmö Opera. She has also directed The Cunning Little Vixen for RCM, Albert Herring for RAM, Owen Wingrave
and Dialogues des Carmelites  for RNCM, Così Fan Tutte for OTC as well as world premieres of Raising Icarus for Barber Opera and Blue Electric for The Playground Theatre.