Donna Stirrup

Biography

Donna Stirrup works regularly at English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Tour, and at the Royal Opera House.

Recent work at ENO includes Rodelinda, The Girl of the Golden West and the Olivier award-winning production of The Mastersingers of Nuremberg.
She directed the Prom of Peter Grimes for ENO and revivals of On the Town in London and Paris.

For Glyndebourne, her work includes Saul, Billy Budd, Cunning Little Vixen, Rusalka and directing a revival of The Miserly Knight and Gianni Schicchi in Tenerife.

For the ROH, her work includes Gloriana and Anna Nicole.

In 2015 she has directed revivals of Thebans in Bonn (ENO production) and Saul for Glyndebourne Tour.

She is Artistic Director of Community in Music, an opera project in London for whom she has directed productions of Hansel & Gretel, Noye’s Fludde and a semi-staging of Handel’s Messiah.