Bence Kalo - Opera & Theatre Director
Current and past productions
Directing:
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel
Opera Holland Park - Young Artist Scheme / 2023
Postgraduate Opera Scenes
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama / 2023
George Frederic Händel: Acis & Galatea
Dorset Opera Festival / 2021
Magdalena Krohn: Rootlost
Etcetera Theatre & Applecart Arts – Voilà! Europe Festival / 2017
Caroline Buckley: Grab ‘Em By The Pussy
York Theatre Royal- Takeover Festival & The Monkey House – Camden Fringe & The Space / 2017
Hanoch Levin: Ya’akobi & Leidental
The Cameri Theatre (Tel Aviv, Israel) & Etcetera Theatre – Camden Fringe / 2016
Mel Atkey: The Last Queen of Paradise
Tristan Bates Theatre – Going For Gold Festival / 2016
Laura Wyatt O’Keefe: Jean
Theatre N16 – DRAFT 3 / 2016
Christopher Fairall & Sophie Jones: Down the Tracks
tour (various venues in & around London) / 2016
Václav Havel: The Memorandum
University of Kent – Lumley Studio & The Gulbenkian / 2015
Joanna Owsianko: Tiramisu
Gólya & Eötvös10 Community & Cultural Centre (Budapest, Hungary) / 2014
Movement Directing & Assisting:
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Manon Lescaut - Dorsert Opera Festival / 2022
director: Christopher Cowell I conductor: José Miguel Esandi
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Carmen - Opera Holland Park / 2022
director: Cecilia Stinton I conductor: Lee Reynolds
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR & CO-CREATOR A Dozen Things I Would Rather Be - Streatham Space Project / 2022
Co-Creator: Nick Ishmael-Perkins
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Così fan tutte - Dorsert Opera Festival / 2021
director: Christopher Cowell I conductor: José Miguel Esandi
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR La Nozze di Figaro - Opera Holland Park / 2021
director: Oliver Platt I conductor: George Jackson
SHADOWING DIRECTOR The Phantom of the Opera - Her Majesty’s Theatre / 2019
resident director Mark Hedges
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Nabucco - Dorset Oper Festival / 2019
director: Peter Relton I conductor: Jeremy Carnall
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR La bohème - Dorset Opera Festival / 2018
director: Peter Relton I conductor: Peter Robinson
OBSERVER/SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Così fan tutte - Opera Holland Park / 2018
director Oliver Platt I conductor: Dane Lam
OBSERVERSHIP Rigoletto - Royal Opera House / 2017
revival director: Justin Way I conductor: Alexander Joel
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Desperate Measures - The Marlowe Theatre / 2015
director: Andrew Dawson