Thomas Guthrie is an innovative and award-winning British director, singer and musician. A former Jette Parker Young Artist Stage Director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, he is founder and artistic director of the charity Music and Theatre for All.
Recent highlights include Aida (Liceu, Barcelona); Semele (MCO/Gardiner in Barcelona, Rome, Paris, London, Milan); Dido and Aeneas (Barbican, Norway); the UK premiere of Dove’s Monster in the Maze (LSO/Rattle); Nozze di Figaro, Zauberflöte and Fliegende Holländer (Longborough/Negus), and award winning productions of Fairy Queen, King Arthur, Gagliano’s Dafne, Strozzi’s First Book of Madrigals and Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.
His revival of Zauberflöte at ROH won WoS Best Revival 2018. Other ROH revivals include Nozze di Figaro, Barbiere di Siviglia, and Andrea Chenier (at ROH and in Beijing), as well as original productions Rita, The Bear, Hot House and Ludd and Isis, which launched the new ROH Production Park in Purfleet.
As a composer and arranger, he has had work performed at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, at Princeton University USA, in Austria, Norway and Denmark. His arrangement of Schubert’s Die Schöne Müllerin with Barokksolistene (dir Bjarte Eike) was released to critical acclaim on Rubicon Classics last November. Other recording credits include Biber with Sonnerie (winner of a Gramophone Award), Bach Cantatas with Gardiner, Prokofiev’s War and Peace, live from Spoleto with Hickox and Barokksolistene’s Alehouse and Playhouse Sessions (Rubicon Classics and BBC4.