Paul Higgins - Director

Die Meistersinger (2019), La Traviata ( tour 2021)

He was the founding Artistic Director of the award-winning Theatre 503 in London. He has worked as Associate and Assistant Director in the West End and for Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre and Almeida Theatre. In opera he has worked as Revival and Assistant Director for Covent Garden, La Scala, Glyndebourne, Rome, Copenhagen, ENO, Seiji Ozawa Festival Japan, Paris, Luxembourg and Amsterdam. He has directed Carmen (Dorset Opera), Il barbiere di Sivilglia (Diva Opera), Madama Butterfly (Opera Holland Park), Così fan tutte (English Touring Opera), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Fulham Opera). Revival credits include L’elisir d’amore and Don Pasquale (Glyndebourne); Don Carlo, La bohème, Manon Lescaut, and La traviata (Royal Opera), Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Bordeaux, Tours and Klagenfurt). In 2017 he won Best Opera Production at the Off West End Awards for Così fan tutte (Kings Head Theatre, London) and his production of Stanford’s last opera The Travelling Companion for New Sussex Opera was nominated for Best Rediscovered Work at the International Opera Awards 2019. In October 2020 he directed his first short film based on the stories of Damon Runyon.