Russell Plows CV
Theatre & opera director, translator and composer
Currently Artistic Director of Hull Urban Opera
hullurbanopera.com
The Party
Librettist & Director
Music by Lente Verelst | Libretto by Lena Vercauteren
Hull Urban Opera
Princes Quay Event Space, Hull
More Bumps in the Night
Director
Including Whistle & I’ll Come to You My Lad by Louis Mander
and Crocodile by Lente Verelst (revised version with vibraphone MC)
Hull Urban Opera
18 Whitefriargate, Hull
It Must Have Been a Tuesday
Composer/Director
Three true stories by Poppy Shotts, Joanna Gamble & Alex Grainger spoken and sung by the performers with violin accompaniment.
Hull Urban Opera
Crocodile (Acquired by Sky Arts)
Concept & director
A short animated darkweb riff on violence via Punch & Judy animated by Anna Bean
Music by Lente Verelst | Libretto by Lena Vercauteren
Hull Urban Opera
Snappy opera Teacups & Tentacles
Librettist
Music by Raymond Yiu
Mahogany Opera Group
Mr Tilly’s Seance
Composer and librettist
A comic opera in one act
Hull Urban Opera
Bumps in the Night
Director (and composer)
Including The Bar by Lente Verelst
Christmas Meeting by Russell Plows
and Mandragora devised by Russell Plows after Rosemary Timperley
Hull Urban Opera
Conservancy Buildings off Whitefriargate, Hull
Socrates by Erik Satie
Director & translator
A mindful production of Satie’s Socrates including a mindfulness leader
Hull Urban Opera
Hull Minster, Beverley Memorial Hall, Thornton Hall, St Matthews
Cruel Britannia – Back To Ours commission
Director
3 devised pieces of street-opera based on existing arias
Hull Urban Opera
The streets of Hull
The Brain Jar Sessions
Founding and artistic direction of informal concerts of new songs & opera upstairs in a bar
Hull Urban Opera
April, July &
Brain Jar, Paragon Arcade, Scale Lane Bridge in Hull
Christmas Meeting
Composer & director
A new ghost opera for mezzo, tenor, harp & strings
Hull Urban Opera
Brain Jar, Trinity Methodist, Thornton Hall in Hull
La Brebis Egaree (The Lost Sheep)
Orchestral arranger & translator
A new edition of the opera by Milhaud for Ricordi
Romeo & Juliet
Translator
English translation of Gounod’s opera
Riverside Opera in London
Rose Theatre in London
Private Drama Coach & Piano Teacher in London
2011 – 2013
The Marriage of Figaro
Director
Opera Nova
Otley Theatre
Preparation of reduced orchestrations of operas by Milhaud, Poulenc and Ullmann
Orchestrator
For future performance
The Dramaticules of Samuel Beckett
Workshop Director
Norwegian Chapel in London
Falstaff
Director
Opera Moriarty
St Andrews Church NW3
Médée
Director
British Premiere of opera by Milhaud
Opera Up Close
Finborough Theatre in London
La Voix Humaine / Socrates
Director & translator
Operas by Poulenc & Satie
Opera Up Close
National Opera Studio in London
La Bohème
Director
Sevenoaks Opera
Stag Theatre, Sevenoaks
The Kaiser of Atlantis
Director
Opera by Viktor Ullmann
Opera Up Close
Wandsworth Theatre in London
Rigoletto
Director
Sevenoaks Opera
Stag Theatre in Sevenoaks
Cosi Fan Tutte
Director & translator
Hampstead Garden Opera
Gatehouse Theatre in London
Don Giovanni
Director
Hampstead Garden Opera
Gatehouse Theatre in London
Amahl & the Night Visitors / A Dinner Engagement
Director
Opera For All
North London College
La Bohème
Director
Royal Sutton Opera
Sutton Coldfield Hall
The Imitation
Devisor & Director
A new play about Manley Hopkins
Questors Theatre
Questors Theatre in London
Welsh National Opera, English Touring Opera, Wexford Opera Festival, The Gate Theatre, Trinity Laban College
Assistant Director and workshop leader
Work with Richard Hickox, Stephen Barlow, Emmanuel Joel, Tim Hopkins, David Fielding, Jamie Hayes and others
1989 – 1996