Francesca Caccini
2026
Vache Baroque & Buxton International Festival
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Conductor - Jonathon Darbourne | Design - Zahra Mansouri | Lighting - Alex Musgrave | Movement - Katie Kelly
Cast
Alcina - Camilla Seale | Melissa - Phoebe Raynor | Ruggiero - Jon Stainsby | Ensemble - Aina Magnall, Betty Makharinsky, Harriet Burns, Thomas Kelly, Filippo Turkheimer
2025
Vincenzo Bellini
English Touring Opera, premiere at Hackney Empire.
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Set & Costume - Lily Arnold | Lighting - Peter Harrison | Movement - Carmine de Amicis | Fight - Kaitlin Howard
Cast
Romeo - Samantha Price | Guiietta - Jessica Cale | Capellio - Tim Nelson
“Eloise Lally’s production is a bright feather in ETO’s cap. Her approach sheds formalities while steering clear of being another sterile modern reinterpretation — The Capulets & The Montagues is an unstuffy affair with plenty of sprezzatura’ - A Young(ish) Perspective ★★★★
“Eloise Lally’s mid-century Little Italy update for English Touring Opera is energetic and stylish. Replacing Renaissance Verona with fedoras, phone booths and bar-room brawls, she turns Bellini’s opera into a noir-inflected tale of conflict and desire.”
— The Guardian ★★★
This production makes a strong case that this work can provide compelling drama even as it seduces you with the beauty of the human voice. And that’s what real operatic magic is all about” - —-— Bachtrack ★★★★
“An extremely stylish production'“ — The Stage ★★★★
“They, and Lally, present us with scuffed and shadowed vistas of patriarchy in decay, with the fragile, polished order of the diner gradually engulfed in rubbish and ruin” — TheArtsDesk ★★★★
“Don’t let the word ‘opera’ put you off because this performance crosses the boundaries of many different works and whatever your preferences if you love a good story – you’ll love this” — Mark Aspen ★★★★★
2025
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Creative Team
Director - Liuba Sliusareva | Producer - Eloise Lally | Hair + Make Up - Laylay Mudrak | Props - Grace Cummins
Cast
Romeo - Samantha Price | Giulietta - Jessica Cale
2025
Gaetano Donizetti
St Pauls Opera, St Paul’s Church, Clapham
Assessor’s Choice Award
“This production was recognized with the Assessor’s Choice Award for its imaginative direction and outstanding ensemble work.”
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Music Director - Adrian Salinero | Design - Ted Blackburn
“This production, directed by Eloise Lally, is complete with creativity, wit, and musical excellence.”
— Green Room Reviews
“Eloise Lally directs Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore with a setting inspired by the South London Hospital for Women and Children, resulting in stylish musical performances and a palpable sense of enjoyment throughout.”
— Planet Hugill
2024
Henry Purcell
Jacksons Lane Theatre
Nominated for Offie Awards: Best Production & Best Ensemble
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Music Director - Seb Gillot | Design - Elin Steele | Lighting - Hector Murray | Choreography - Monica Nikolaides
“Hampstead Garden Opera (HGO) has entrusted the task to director Eloise Lally and she attacks the piece with wit and verve.” - Plays To See ★★★★
“Eloise Lally does a brilliant job of organising 14 people on stage without it ever seeming like chaos and always providing a whole range of expressions and attitudes to watch.” - The Reviews Hub
“The ensemble company of fourteen young opera singers work tirelessly well together, invested and focused throughout, creating lovely classical tableaux, with each performer getting their chance to shine and sing Purcell’s glorious songs…a vibrant and, yes, charming production.” - The Spy in the Stalls ★★★★
“This was a fabulously lavish visual treat – big, camp, joyous and taking no prisoners - and the music was, well, sublime” - Ham & High ★★★★
Gaetano Donizetti
2023
English Touring Opera
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Conductor - Gerry Cornelius | Design - Adam Wiltshire | Light - Ric Mountjoy | Fight Direction - Kaitlin Howards
Cast:
Lucrezia - Paula Sides | Gennaro - Thomas Elwin | Astolfo - Aidan Edwards | Orsini - Katie Coventry | Rhustighello - Matthew McKinney | Ensemble - Ed Jowle, Jerome Knox, Peter Edge, Brenton Spiteri, Phil Wilcox, Monwabisi Lindi, Masimba Ushe, Aaron O’Hare, Ben Knight
“Here, in a traditional production by Eloise Lally, with handsome period designs by Adam Wiltshire and Cordelia Chisholm and magnificent costumes by Wiltshire, the cast delivers on every level” - The Stage ★★★★
“an evening of solid musical performances, consistently excellent acting and highly compelling drama. Case closed. I’m hoping to see Lucrezia Borgia return to us often.” - Bachtrack ★★★★
Leos Janacek
2022
Welsh National Opera.
Creative Team
Director - Katie Mitchell | Revival Director - Eloise Lally | Conductor - Tomas Hanus | Design - Vicki Mortimer | Light - Nigel Edwards | Movement Direction - Struan Leslie
Cast
Jenufa - Elizabeth Lewellyn | Kostelnicka -Eliska Weisovva | Laca - Peter Berger | Steva - Rhodri Prys Jones
“Katie Mitchell’s production for the Welsh National Opera … has lost none of its claustrophobic power in the hands of revival director Eloise Lally. Dramatic gestures … are delivered with care and concision, aligned with the rhythmic subtlety emanating from the pit.” — The Stage ★★★★
“Shame flourishes in secrecy. It blossoms in the claustrophobic domestic interiors … revived here by Eloise Lally for Welsh National Opera.” — The Times ★★★★
Vivienne Franzman
2023
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Set - Jida Akil | Costume - Anna Kelsey | Light - Hector Murray | Movement - Tom Godwin
Performed by the 3rd year actors.
Cush Jumbo
2023
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Set - Jida Akil | Costume - Anna Kelsey | Light - Hector Murray | Movement - Tom Godwin
Performed by the 3rd year actors.
2025
Montiverdi, Haydn, Mozart, Nicolai, Cimarosa, Massanet, Offenbach
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music.
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Conductor - Tim Murray | Pianist - David Smith
Performed by students at RCM
'A Dream of The Past'
Each of these eleven scenes capture a moment in history. From the fall of the Roman Empire to the turn of the 19th century, the common themes of love, lust and greed have been embodied in operatic material, creating a thread which continues to connect us to our own humanity. Our relationship with the past is difficult - existing in a tension between what we know and what we can imagine. This journey through time gives vision to both the stories being told in opera and the context they were written in.
2025
Royal Opera House
Creative Team
Director - Katie Mitchell | Conductor - Jakub Hrusa | Set - Vicki Mortimer | Costume - Sussie Wahlen | Lighting - James Farncombe | Video - Sasha Balzami | Intimacy - Ita O’Brien | Assistant Director - Eloise Lally
Cast
Elina Makropolus - Ausrine Stundyte | Albert Gregor - Sean Panniker | Dr Kolenaty - Henry Waddington | Jaroslav Prus - Johan Reuter| Vitek - Peter Hoare | Hauk - Alan Oke | Kristina - Heather Lowe | Janek - Daniel Matousek
Thomas Ades
2024
Netherlands Reisopera
Creative Team
Director - Paul Carr | Conductor - Otto Tausk | Choreographer - Carmine De Amicis | Design - Dominique Weisbauer | Light - Thomas C. Hase | Dramaturg: Michiel Beijmans | Assistant Director - Eloise Lally
Cast:
Duchess - Laura Bohn | John Savournin, Alison Scherzer, Daniel Arnaldos
Dancers - Ivan Montis, Nicky Van De Cleef, Davide Trioni
Camille Erlanger
2023
Wexford Opera Festival
Creative Team
Director - Ella Marchment | Conductor - Guillame Tourniare | Design - Holly Piggot | Choreography - Luisa Baldinetti | Light - Daniele Naldi
Cast
Andreea Soare, Andrew Morstein, Giorgi Manoshvelli, Philipe Martin
Wexford Factory Artists & Chorus ‘23.
Henry Purcell
2017, 2019 & 2022
Oper Koln , Theatre de Caen & Opera National de Bordeaux, Opera Comique
Creative Team
Director - Katie Mitchell | Revival Director - Eloise Lally | Set Design - Chloe Lamford | Costume - Sussie Juhline - Wallen | Lighting - James Farncombe
Cast
Miranda - Kate Lindsay, Adriana Bastideas - Gamboa | Ferdinand - Ed Lyon, Allan Claytin | Prospero - Alistair Miles| Anna - Emily Hendrichs, Katie Watson
Richard Strauss
2021
Gran Teatre del Liceu & Grand Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg.
Creative Team
Director - Katie Mitchell | Revival Director - Eloise Lally | Set - Chloe Lamford | Lighting - James Farncombe
2021
CCA DAKH and Dnipro Centre of Contemporary Culture (Ukraine)
Creative Team
Direction - Peter Cant |Movement - Matthis Kleinschnittger | Video - Liubov Sliusareva | Sound - Olyesia Onykiienko | Light - Natalka
Cast
Mirra Zhuchkova & Danylo Shramenko
Supported by Iportunas
Benjamin Britten
2022
Garsington Opera
Creative Team
Director - Louisa Muller | Conductor - Mark Wigglesworth | Design - Christopher Oram | Light - Malcom Rippeth | Assistant Director - Eloise Lally
Cast
The Governess - Verity Wingate | Mrs Grose - Susan Bickley | Peter Quint - Rob Murray | Miss Jessel - Helena Dix
Louise Gooding
2018
Theatre503
Creative Team
Director - Eloise Lally | Design - Sarah Mercade | Lighting + Sound - Will Alder | Movement - Rosa Reid
Cast
Tommy Burgess, Olivia Bromley, Josephine Rogers, Jeremy Drakes
“The emotional turmoil, the stress for both the sufferer and those around him are perfectly depicted in the strong performances, made possible by Eloise Lally’s wonderfully creative directing and Louise Gooding’s thoughtful writing. Put simply, you feel compelled to care” - Everything Theatre
William Shakespeare
2016
Sarkia Stage, Kiika, Finland.
Performed and Produced by Romulan Taiteellinen Teatrri Theatre Company
