About

Harry Fehr studied philosophy at the University of Nottingham and for a postgraduate diploma in theatre directing at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He was a member of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

Recent productions include The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Northern College of Music), Die Zauberflöte (Singapore Lyric Opera), Carmen (Royal Academy of Music) and The Elixir of Love (English National Opera).

Other highlights include a number of projects for Scottish Opera: Ariodante, Der fliegende Holländer, Orlando, The Secret Marriage, Rossini’s Cinderella and Craig Armstrong’s The Lady from the Sea (winner of a Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh International Festival).

Productions elsewhere include Orlando (San Francisco Opera / Welsh National Opera – nominated for Best Opera Production at the Wales Theatre Awards), Roberto Devereux (Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe), Tosca (De Nederlandse Reisopera), L’elisir d’amore (Den Jyske Opera – named Production of the Year at the 2017 CPHCulture Theatre Awards), the Chinese premiere of Falstaff (Shanghai Opera House), La sonnambula, I Capuleti e i Montecchi and La finta giardiniera (Buxton International Festival – the latter nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award), Così fan tutte (Opera Holland Park), a double bill of Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue & Philip Hagemann’s Poison, Passion & Petrifaction (Pegasus Opera Company), La clemenza di Tito (Teatru Manoel, Valetta), Die schöne Müllerin and La serva padrona (Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House), Henry Fielding’s The Lottery (Bury Court Opera), Così fan tutte (Diva Opera), and Oberon and Mignon (New Sussex Opera).

Harry has a close association with Blackheath Halls Opera where he has staged Cavalleria rusticana, Semele, Noye’s Fludde, Kate Whitley’s Paws & Padlocks, The Adventures of Count Ory, Massenet’s Cinderella, Eugene Onegin and The Elixir of Love, directing professionals alongside participants from the local community.

He works frequently with students and has directed productions of Sir John in Love (British Youth Opera), Giulio Cesare (The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts), Radamisto (Dutch National Opera Academy), La finta giardiniera (Royal College of Music), Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), The Cunning Little Vixen and two productions of Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), L’incoronazione di Poppea and Rinaldo (Trinity Laban), and Così fan tutte and La bohème (Clonter Opera – the former nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award), as well as several programmes of scenes (Royal Academy of Music, GSMD, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Opera Academy, Copenhagen).

Before, during and after his time on the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme, he was revival, associate or assistant director on over twenty productions for the Royal Opera, also reviving its productions of Così fan tutte for Seattle Opera and La traviata in Guangzhou, China.

Projects cancelled by the coronavirus pandemic include Peter Grimes (Theater Basel), Il trovatore (Welsh National Opera), and Mansfield Park (Samling Academy for Young Singers).

Plans include Madama Butterfly for Singapore Lyric Opera and Carmen for Blackheath Halls Opera.