Upcoming productions include Elektra
The Pearl Fishers
Into the Woods
Les Contes d'Hoffman
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Upcoming productions include Lee Blakeley was born in Yorkshire and trained at Richmond Drama School and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Returning to the Chatelet in 2011 he directed the French Premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, starring Caroline O'Connor and Rod Gilfry. With standing ovations at every performance the show took Paris and the critics by storm.
For Minnesota Opera his production of Orfeo Ed Eurydice , staring David Daniels, proved a triumph with the public and was universally acclaimed in the press.
Lee has had a great success with both the critics and public alike with his new production of Madame Butterfly at Santa Fe Opera, earlier in the year he directed the sellout French premiere of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris, staring Leslie Caron, Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson.
Continuing a commitment to opera training he was invited to direct Cosi Fan Tutte as final show of the year for the Royal College of Music in summer 2011.
He has been an Associate Director for the Royal Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera and English National Opera. Recently he has worked for Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera New Zealand, Vlaamse Opera, Opera de Monte Carlo, Lille, Trieste and Tenerife. Most recently he directed Prokofiev's Love For Three Oranges for RSAMD/Scottish Opera.
In 2008 his production of Judith Weir's A Night at the Chinese Opera was a huge success for Scottish Opera and was nominated for a TMA Award for Achievement in Opera.
In the 2006-7 season he directed a sell out production of Die Fledermaus also for Scottish Opera and a new production of The Turn of The Screw in association with the British Council and Macedonian Opera and Ballet.
His production of Rusalka for Wexford Festival Opera in 2007 was another critically acclaimed sell out.
In the 2005-6 season he directed Don Giovanni in Philadelphia, The Merry Widow for Vlaamse Opera in Ghent and Antwerp
His production of Rusalka for Wexford Festival Opera in 2007 was another critically acclaimed sell out.
In the 2005-6 season he directed Don Giovanni in Philadelphia, The Merry Widow for Vlaamse Opera in Ghent and Antwerp
Lee received one of the prestigious Winston Churchill Fellowships for 2007. This took him to many of the major Opera houses of North America to study Lyric Artist Development and the Cultivation of Philanthropy for Opera.