About

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

Recent productions include La sonnambula (Buxton Festival), Sir John in Love (British Youth Opera), a double bill of Debussy’s L’enfant prodigue and Philip Hagemann’s Poison, Passion & Petrifaction (Pegasus Opera Company) and Orlando (San Francisco Opera).

Other productions include 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), the world premiere of Craig Armstrong’s The Lady from the Sea (Edinburgh International Festival / Scottish Opera – winner of a Herald Angel Award), Orlando (Welsh National Opera / Scottish Opera – nominated for a Wales Theatre Award), Ariodante, Der fliegende Holländer, Il matrimonio segreto and La cenerentola (Scottish Opera), I Capuleti e i Montecchi and La finta giardiniera (Buxton Festival – the latter nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award), Così fan tutte (Opera Holland Park) 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 works frequently with students and has directed productions of 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 tuttue and La bohème (Clonter Opera – the former nominated for a Manchester Theatre Award), and as well as several programmes of scenes (Royal Academy of Music, GSMD, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and the Opera Academy, Copenhagen).

He has a close association with the community-based group Blackheath Halls Opera, where he has directed Noye’s Fludde, Kate Whitley’s Paws & Padlocks, Le comte Ory, Cendrillon, Eugene Onegin and L’elisir d’amore.

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 Semele (Blackheath Halls Opera).