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 and Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier and Vivaldi's Griselda for Wuppertal Oper. 

 

Next season she'll direct Laura Kaminsky's Lucidity for La Monnaie, Brussels, and 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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