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​​UNITED AGENTS 

Tracey Elliston  TElliston@unitedagents.co.uk

mdutillieulmcnicol@gmail.com 

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Please contact for full list of upcoming productions

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Mathilda is a British director who works internationally across opera, theatre, and film.

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This season she directs Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera National du Rhin, co-produced with Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier, and Vivaldi's Griselda for Wuppertal Oper
 
Next season she'll direct Laura Kaminsky's Lucidity for La Monnaie, Brussels.  She has an upcoming double bill at Nederlandse Reisopera.
 
Projects in development include hybrid theater-opera work.  
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Directing credits include: Le Nozze di Figaro for Opera National du Rhin, Griselda Wuppertal Oper,  Exils (Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier), Antonio Vivaldi/Richter (Neue Oper Fribourg), Arminio, Handel, (The Royal Opera, Linbury Theatre), La Boheme  (Nevill Holt Opera), Arianna a Naxos (The Royal Opera), Panic (Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier), and the 20th Anniversary staged summer celebration scenes on the mainstage of the Royal Opera House, conducted by Antonio Pappano.

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​​Mathilda uses her own sound design within her theater work, and most recently has included film and photography from war journalist Jelle Krings in her upcoming production of Exils.  She collaborated with climate activist and writer Charlie Hertzog Young with her production of Vivaldi/Richter's Four seasons for Neue Oper Fribourg which included text from Charlie's book Spinning Out. 


She was the Jette Parker Stage Director for The Royal Opera 2022/23 season, and during the 2020/21 season Mathilda participated in a new work residency with Montpellier Opera where she developed two new chamber works with composers. 

 

Mathilda also writes music for theatre and film. She has recently written a new contemporary dance piece with choreographer Miguel Altunaga, which will premiere at the Place in London.  She has previously written vocal and chamber work, including Let Me Concentrate on Fiction and We are Humans Just Like you, which awarded her the Hargreaves Composition Prize.

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​THE GUARDIAN  ★★★★"This lesser-known darkly compelling work is given a smart production that fizzes with contemporary relevance and puts female voices to the fore"  

THE STAGE ★★★★"Clever and thought provoking"​​

 

CLASSYKEO The British director delivers a modern and daring adaptation, while remaining true to the original spirit of the comic opera. It's a feast for the eyes, making the audience almost want to join the fun…​​

 

OLYRIX The production brims with vitality, and this conceptual shift never hinders the dramatic flow. The action unfolds with remarkable clarity, supported by virtuosic actor direction in a precisely choreographed whirlwind of events.

 

​DIAPASON ...one is quickly swept along by a production of impeccable theatrical precision, propelled by an irresistible momentum.McNicol's dynamic direction of actors vividly defines each character.​​"

 

Barbarina is no longer an innocent young girl, and Susanna is no longer merely the potential victim of the Count's advances, but manipulates him to her own advantage."​​

 

DEIANIRA  Director Mathida du Tillieul McNicol has gone a step further. Here, Griselda is an independent and emancipated woman. The director has brought the story into the present day. This works because nothing has changed in relationships and marital strife since ancient times. The opera delivers a concentrated dose of marital warfare with collateral damage, not just the trials and tribulations of love, but also transgressions, unfair games, mutual hurt, and insults​

 

RESMUSICA Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol, through her perfectly oiled direction of the actors, succeeds in making the numerous plot twists of this ''mad day'' both clear and believable... she shows from the outset, the predatory behavior of men towards men but refrains from presenting them in an overly Manichean way... ​

 

THE INDEPENDENT "As pacy as a netflix thriller... Director Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol trades togas and spears for TV-realism and anonymous 21st century rooms of power"​​

 

THE ARTS DESK★★★★"Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol and an impressive young cast lend it pace, focus and dramatic flair, along with that timely political edge"​

 

THE STAGE ★★★★"Seriously involving"​

 

MUSIC OMH ★★★★ "An innovative and interesting take on Puccini's classic... La boheme, on a small-scale, but with a big heart"​​​​

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