By Bellini
English Touring Opera 2025.
Director
Conductor: Alphonse Cemin
Design: Lily Arnold
Lighting: Peter Harrison
Movement direction: Carmine de Amicis
Fight choreography: Kaitlin Howard
“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
https://ayoungishperspective.co.uk/2025/02/23/review-the-capulets-the-montagues/
“She evokes the mean streets and meaner mobsters of the Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola era with some panache'“ **** The Times
“ 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
https://markaspen.com/2025/02/24/capulets-montagues/
Director
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music. May 2025
'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.
Montiverdi, Haydn, Mozart, Nicolai, Cimarosa, Massanet, Offenbach
Conductor Tim Murray
Pianist David Smith
Performed by students at RCM
Producer
x 1 short film and x 3 teaser trailers created to advertise my production of The Capulets & Montague’s with English Touring Opera. Jan 2025.
Director Liuba Sliusareva
Romeo Samantha Price
Giulietta Jessica Cale
Props Grace Cummins
Hair & Make - up Laylay Mudrak
Film Assistants Bronte Skey & Alex Sorensen
Cellist : Henry Hargreaves
Conductor: Alphonse Cemin
https://youtu.be/vwTIqnHUbFQ?si=lOtj5E0Hv9OaJWc7
https://youtu.be/VVc8-Xu_6B8?si=ANSzPzQIxr7RV1WB
by Henry Purcell
Jacksons Lane Theatre
April 2024
Director
Music Director: Seb Gillot
Design : Elin Steele
Lighting : Hector Murray
Choreography : Monica Nikolaides
Production Manager : Beri Valentine
ASM’s : Liuba Silusavera + Laura Hill
Costume Supervisor : Faith Hill
OFFIE NOMINATED - BEST OPERA PRODUCTION & BEST PERFORMANCES 2024
REVIEWS
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “HGO with a talented cast, a tight orchestra and superb direction put on a spectacle in praise of love, joy and a little bit of kinky experimentation.”
“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
⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Hampstead Garden Opera (HGO) has entrusted the task to director Eloise Lally and she attacks the piece with wit and verve.”
Plays to See
⭐⭐⭐⭐
“This was a fabulously lavish visual treat – big, camp, joyous and taking no prisoners - and the music was, well, sublime”
Ham & High
by Vivienne Franzman
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts
Director
Set : Jida Akil
Light : Hector Murray
Costume : Anna Kelsey
Sound: Matthew Giles
Movement : Tom Godwin
Performed by the 3rd year actors.
by Cush Jumbo
Mountview Academy
Director
Set : Jida Akil
Costume : Anna Kelsey
Light : Hector Murray
Sound: Matthew Giles
Movement : Tom Godwin
Performed by the 3rd year actors.
by Donizetti
English Touring Opera, 2023.
Director
Conductor: Gerry Cornelius
Design: Adam Wiltshire
Light: Ric Mountjoy
Fight Direction: Kaitlin Howards
Cast: Paula Sides, Thomas Elwin, Aidan Edwards, Katie Coventry, Matthew McKinney , Ed Jowle, Jerome Knox, Peter Edge, Brenton Spiteri, Phil Wilcox, Monwabisi Lindi, Masimba Ushe, Aaron O’Hare, Ben Knight
REVIEWS
⭐⭐⭐⭐
“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
⭐⭐⭐⭐
“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
Music - Purcell | Story - Katie Mitchell, Raphael Pichon & Cordelia Lyn
Oper Koln 2022 | Theatre de Caen & Opera National de Bordeaux 2019 | Opera Comique 2017
Revival Director
Conductor: Raphael Pichon
Director: Katie Mitchell
Librettist: Cordelia Lynn
Movement Direction: Joseph Alford
Dramaturg: Sam Pritchard
Set : Chloe Lamford
Costume: Sussie Juhline - Wallen
Light: James Farncombe
Sound: Max Pappenheim
Cast including: Kate Lindsay, Adriana Bastideas - Gamboa, Ed Lyon, Alistair Miles, Alan Clayton, Emily Hendrichs, Katie Watson, John Heuzenroeder,
Music - Richard Strauss | Text - Hofmannstahl
Gran Teatre del Liceu & Grand Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg. 2021.
Revival Director
Director: Katie Mitchell
Conductor: Josep Pons
Design: Chloe Lamford
Costume: Sarah Blenkinsop
Light: James Farncombe
Movement Direction: Joseph Alford
created by Hooligan Art Community
Dramaturg
CCA DAKH and Dnipro Centre of Contemporary Culture (Ukraine) 2021.
Direction: Peter Cant
Movement: Matthis Kleinschnittger
Video: Liubov Sliusareva
Sound: Olyesia Onykiienko
Light: Natalka
Performers: Mirra Zhuchkova & Danylo Shramenko
Supported by Iportunas
Music & Text - Leos Janacek
Welsh National Opera. 2022
Revival Director
Director: Katie Mitchell
Conductor: Tomas Hanus
Design: Vicki Mortimer
Light: Nigel Edwards
Movement Direction: Struan Leslie
Reviews:
‘Katie Mitchell’s production for the Welsh National Opera was first seen in 1998 but has lost none of its claustrophobic power in the hands of revival director Eloise Lally. Dramatic gestures large and small are delivered with care and concision, aligned with the rhythmic subtlety emanating from the pit’
****Steph Power, The Stage
‘Shame flourishes in secrecy. It blossoms in the claustrophobic domestic interiors of Katie Mitchell’s 1998 Jenufa, revived here by Eloise Lally for Welsh National Opera’
****Rebecca Franks, The Times
‘This was a wholly compelling performance from cast, chorus and orchestra alike, embracing such empathy and commitment as to leave its audience deeply moved and more than a bit drained’
**** Rian Evans, The Guardian
Music by Benjamin Britten
Text adapted from Henry James
Assistant Director
Garsington Opera. 2022
Director: Louisa Muller
Conductor: Mark Wigglesworth
Design: Christopher Oram
Light: Malcom Rippeth
Cast: Susan Bickley, Verity Wingate, Rob Murray
written by Louise Gooding
Theatre503, 2018.
Director
Design: Sarah Mercade
Lighting & Sound: Will Alder
Movement Direction: Rosa Reid
Stage Manager: Beth Mann
Cast: Tommy Burgess, Olivia Bromley, Josephine Rogers, Jeremy Drakes
Produced by Hannah Tookey, Laura Furner, Eloise Lally Productions.
by Thomas Ades
Netherlands Reisopera 2024
Assistant Director
Director: Paul Carr
Conductor: Otto Tausk
Choreographer: Carmine De Amicis
Set + Costume : Dominique Weisbauer
Light : Thomas C. Hase
Dramaturg: Michiel Beijmans
Cast: Laura Bohn, John Savourin, Alison Scherzer, Daniel Arnaldos
Dancers: Ivan Montis, Nicky Van De Cleef, Davide Trioni
An operatic film created in isolation for Opera Harmony. Streamed on Opera Vision from August 2020.
Director
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBc81c0hyh0
Composer: Joel Rust
Librettist: David Troupes
Man: Luke Sutliff
Voice: Rebecca Bottone
Animation: Benjamin Fox
Editor: Nick Light
by William Shakespeare
Sarkia Stage, Kiika, Finland, 2016
Performed and Produced by Romulan Taiteellinen Teatrri Theatre Company
Translation: Kaarina Karjula
Design: Joanne Greenwood
A workshop series lead by Rosa Manzi Reid & Eloise Lally
Exploring performance through the body, the ensemble and devising procees's, this group worked together from 2015 - 2016. Sharing work in progress at The Place and The Young Vic Creators Program.
Performers:
Carol Ellis, Amy Leighton, Sheetal Kapoor, Greta Wray, Kate Austen, Hermione Halpin, Toby Osmond, Blain Neale.
Writers:
Tom Mair, Jack Flanagan
