Tim Claydon
Movement Director/Choreographer
Trained in classical dance and as a performer worked as a dancer and aerialist/trapeze artist for 20 years.
Opera and Theatre Choreography/ Movement direction includes: I Puritani (Metropolitan Opera) Turandot (Geneva, Tokyo); Un ballo in maschera (Oslo, Copenhagen); Asrael (Bonn); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe); Effigies of Wickedness (The Gate); The Phoenix, La traviata, Don Carlos (Houston Grand Opera); Parsifal (Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand Opera); Pyramus and Thisbe, Faust (Canadian Opera); L’elisir d’amore (Pittsburgh Opera, Opera North, Opera Oviedo, Chicago Lyric, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera); Madama Butterfly, Carmen (Vlaamse Opera); The Tales of Hoffmann (Malmö Opera); Giulio Cesare, Belshazzar, Orfeo ed Euridice/Dido and Aeneas (Grange Festival); Manon Lescaut (Opera Holland Park); The Magic Flute, Idomeneo, Così fan tutte, La Comte Ory, Falstaff and Giorno di Regno (Garsington Opera). La Cenerentola (Brengenzer Festspiele) For Opera North: Rusalka, The Merry Widow, La clemenza di Tito, Albert Herring, Gianni Schicchi, Andrea Chénier, The Little Greats season, The Greek Passion and Aleko. His own work includes In Search of Youkali, a collection of Kurt Weill songs.
Directed Cosi Fan Tutte for the Vienna Opera Academy and was revival director for Phyllida Lloyd’s Peter Grimes at Opera North.
Directors with whom I have collaborated include;
David Alden
Christopher Alden
Daniel Slater
Phyllida Lloyd
Annabel Arden
Orpha Phelan
Charles Edwards
Amy Lane
Karolina Souflak
John Caird
Daniel Kramer
Cal McCrystal
James Brinning
Giles Havagal
Bruno Ravella
Ellen McDougal
Tim Albery
John Fulljames
Olivia Fuchs
David Poutney
