Walter Sutcliffe

In the 2024/25 season, Walter Sutcliffe will direct Die Zauberflöte at the Halle Opera and Agrippina at the Händel Festival in Halle.

Since the 2021/22 season, Walter Sutcliffe has been the Artistic Director of the Halle Opera, where in the 2023/24 season he directed new productions of The Tales of Hoffmann and La Bohème. From 2017 to 2020, he was the Artistic Director of Northern Ireland Opera.

In recent seasons, Walter Sutcliffe has directed Agrippina (Grange Festival), Rodrigo (Göttingen), Faust (Karlsruhe), The Ghost Sonata (Frankfurt), Così fan tutte and Carmen (Tallinn), a new production of Werther and Kiss Me, Kate for the Magdeburg Opera, Don Giovanni and Orpheus in the Underworld (Osnabrück), Luisa Miller and La Traviata(Braunschweig).

Other notable productions include Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre in Chemnitz, Otello (Turin), Owen Wingrave (Frankfurt), The Turn of the Screw and Tiefland (Toulouse), Orontea (Frankfurt), Rigoletto for Santiago, Chile, and Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Manon Lescaut (Theater Osnabrück), The Brothers Lionheart (Dresden), Zar und Zimmermann(Bremerhaven), Manon Lescaut (Theater Osnabrück), as well as Albert Herring (Landestheater Linz), Tippett's The Knot Garden (Klangbogen Festival, Vienna), and Janáček's Šárka (Dicapo Opera, New York).

His theater productions include Strindberg's The Great Highway (Gate Theatre, London), Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (Finborough Theatre, London), and The Soldier's Tale (BAC, London).

Walter Sutcliffe has translated plays and librettos from French and German into English. He has received scholarships from the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Italian Cultural Institute. Walter Sutcliffe was born in London in 1976 and studied at the Royal College of Music and Cambridge University.

2024/25

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