Guido Martin-Brandis is a British/German opera director. His productions have been finalists in the OffWestEnd and Standing Ovation Awards.
He is particularly passionate about German and Slavic operatic repertoire, alongside the operas of the French Baroque, and formed The Opera Company in 2017 to put on productions of these works. Early productions included Onegin andTatiana, and The Cunning Little Vixen, followed by three operas by Jean-Philippe Rameau, including the UK premiere of the 1737 version of Castor et Pollux, and two shows he devised based on forgotten French baroque music: Rameau’s Roots, and The Theatre of the Salon.
Recent projects as director have included critically acclaimed productions of L’elisir d’amore for Wild Arts, Tristan und Isolde and Strauss’ Die Ägyptische Helena (Regents Opera), Imeneo (Cambridge Handel Opera Company), Hansel und Gretel, La Cenerentola, Così fan tutte (Opera Kipling), Die Fledermaus (Merry Opera), the world premieres of A Child in Striped Pyjamas (Echo Ensemble) and The Yellow Wallpaper (Helios Collective), Dido and Aeneas (Somerset Opera), La Serva Padrona, and Bastien und Bastienne (Opera de Baugé).
Guido is dedicated to the artistic development of emerging artists, and has been invited to direct at Guildhall School of Music and Drama for four consecutive years. Future plans include The Barber of Seville for Opera Kipling, Purcell’s Lament for the Paragon Singers, Opera Evenings for Wild Arts, Handel’s Dueling Divas, Dido and Aeneas, and Der Rosenkavalier for The Opera Company.