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Ella Marchment

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Ella Marchment
Born30 May 1992 (1992-05-30) (age 32)
Hampshire, England
EducationKing's College London
Royal Academy of Music
University of Bristol
Central Saint Martins
City Literary Institute
Bryanston School
Bedales School
Occupation(s)Opera and theatre director
WebsiteEllaMarchment.org

Ella Marchment (born 30 May 1992) is a British opera director, artistic director, and an associate professor.[1] She is a co-founder of the campaign charity SWAP'ra, Supporting Women and Parents in Opera, and the artistic director of Opera Festival of Chicago, and Opera in the Rock, Arkansas.[2][3][4] She previously founded the opera company Helios Collective.[5] She has directed the International Opera Awards since 2017.[6]

Career

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In addition to directing engagements in Europe and the US, Marchment is artistic director of the Opera Festival of Chicago[7][8] and Opera in the Rock in Arkansas,[9] Creative Associate and co-founder of SWAP’ra,[2] and Director of Opera and Associate Professor at Shenandoah Conservatory.[10]

She created Toi Toi, a festival series of operatic club nights held at the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham, London; and Formations Masterclasses, a series of workshops that commissioned and staged new operas, with sessions led by figures from the opera world including Janis Kelly, Judith Weir, Mark Wigglesworth, Kasper Holten, Daniel Kramer, Robert Saxton, Stephen Unwin, Stephen Barlow, Stephen Medcalf, David Pountney, and David Parry.[11] Formations Masterclasses were hosted by English National Opera and King's College London.[12]

Opera works

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Marchment is currently Director of Opera and Associate Professor at Shenandoah Conservatory, and she was previously Director of Opera at Northern Illinois University.[8]

She was artistic resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity[29] and Dutch National Opera.[30]

Marchment is a co-founder of SWAP’ra, an opera-based charity that works to address the under-representation of women in senior leadership roles in opera.[2][14]


Opera premieres

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Awards and recognition

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In 2015 Marchment became the first opera director to be awarded a bursary by the International Opera Awards.[37]

In 2018 and 2022 she was a semi-finalist in the European Opera-Directing Prize, and in 2018 she was shortlisted for the Women of the Future Awards in the arts and culture category.[38][39]

Stage work

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In 2015 Marchment co-founded Theatre N16 in London.[40]

She has directed the following stage works:

References

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  1. ^ "Ella Marchment". Faculty Directory. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  2. ^ a b c "Our Team | Welcome to SWAP'ra". swap-ra. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  3. ^ "A new opera company? Introducing the Opera Festival of Chicago, a team of ambitious Italophiles". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  4. ^ "Opera in the Rock to focus 2022-23 season on Black performers, composers". Arkansas Online. 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  5. ^ "Helios Collective". Helios Collective. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  6. ^ a b "Winners Announced". Opera Awards. 2017-05-11. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  7. ^ "Ella Marchment". 5 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  8. ^ a b Edgar, Hannah. "A new opera company? Introducing the Opera Festival of Chicago, a team of ambitious Italophiles". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  9. ^ "Opera in the Rock to focus 2022-23 season on Black performers, composers". Arkansas Online. 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2022-06-02.
  10. ^ "Ella Marchment". Faculty Directory. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  11. ^ "Opera world could become Hollywood: full of second rate sequels, warns outgoing Royal Opera House director". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  12. ^ Helios (2016-11-15). "Formations Masterclasses 2016". Helios Collective. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  13. ^ Bano, Tim (2014-09-09). "Façade / Eight Songs For A Mad King, Arcola Theatre – Review". Everything Theatre. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  14. ^ a b "'It's time to address the gender imbalance in opera'". Classic FM. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  15. ^ "Radical opera: Dido &... | King's Culture | King's College London". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  16. ^ Scheil, Katherine West (2018-06-28). Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-26567-6.
  17. ^ Helios (2016-06-24). "Salon Russe". Helios Collective. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  18. ^ "Harry Silverstein, Stage director". Operabase. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  19. ^ buxtonfestival (2016-08-30). "Guest blog: Ella Marchment on her Buxton Festival experience". Buxton International Festival. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  20. ^ Seymour, Claire (2017-10-28). "Wexford Festival Opera 2017". Opera Today. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  21. ^ "Dido and Aeneas" (PDF). Dido and Aeneas: 2. 6 Feb 2019 – via Juilliard School.
  22. ^ "A darkly atmospheric Turn of the Screw from Bury Court Opera". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  23. ^ "The Turn of the Screw @ Bury Court Opera, Bentley | Opera + Classical Music Reviews". musicOMH. 2019-03-11. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  24. ^ "The Turn of the Screw review, Bury Court, Farnham, 2019". The Stage. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  25. ^ Hugill, Planet. "One last show: Bury Court Opera's final performance ever presented Britten's The Turn of the Screw in a production vividly conceived to highlight the venue's distinctive qualities". Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  26. ^ "Finalists Announced". Opera Awards. 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  27. ^ "Performers Announced". Opera Awards. 2019-03-11. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
  28. ^ "Opera Harmony". OperaVision. 2020-06-03. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  29. ^ "Ella Marchment | England/Switzerland". www.banffcentre.ca. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  30. ^ enoa. "Ella Marchment - ENOA COMMUNITY". enoa. Retrieved 2022-03-13.
  31. ^ "The New World of Opera | April 22–24". Conservatory Performs. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  32. ^ Marchment, Ella (2022-07-22). "Everyone's sisters: whether book, film or opera, Little Women still speaks to us all". the Guardian. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  33. ^ Kenyon, Nicholas (2022-07-23). "Little Women, Opera Holland Park, review: a strong cast can't redeem this bland score". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  34. ^ Franks, Rebecca. "Little Women review — a good-looking production but the music slips into sentimentality". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  35. ^ "Shenandoah Conservatory Invited to Perform at 2022 Biennale Musica in Venice". Shenandoah University. 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  36. ^ "Biennale Musica 2022 | Introduction by Lucia Ronchetti". La Biennale di Venezia. 2022-04-06. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  37. ^ Unknown. "International Opera Awards bursaries announced". Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  38. ^ "The EOP". Europäischer Opernregie-Preis (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  39. ^ "Women of the Future Awards". Women of the Future Awards. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  40. ^ "New fringe theatre opening in north London". Enfield Independent. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  41. ^ "An Evening with Lucian Freud, Leicester Square Theatre, review: 'the charm and energy of Bonas's performance are persuasive'". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  42. ^ "views from the gods | plays | robbie's date". viewsfromthegods.co.uk. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  43. ^ Royal love triangle | King Roger by Ella Marchment | Short Film | Random Acts, retrieved 2022-06-12
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