Rachael Hewer
“Five stars for Die Zauberflöte, Metropolitan Opera, New York”
Financial Times
“Both highly imaginative and endearingly simple”
New York Times
“Ingenious”
The Guardian
“What did you achieve during lockdown? If the answer isn’t “built my own film studio and green screen in the garden shed” then you’re not Rachael Hewer, the young director behind one of lockdown’s most ambitious arts projects yet”
The I Paper
“…akin to Andrei Tarkovsky”
Broadway World
“…Rachael Hewer’s production is quite simply a masterpiece”
The Scotsman
“…expert work of Director, Rachael Hewer”
The Observer
“Ingenious”
The Stage
“Rachael Hewer, a director harbouring so much flair and imagination”
Planet Hugill
Royal Philharmonic Society Awards
The South Bank Sky Arts Award
International Award For Young Opera Directors
Rachael was born in Grimsby, UK and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
She founded VOPERA – The Virtual Opera Project in 2020 and directed their film of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, which won the South Bank Sky Arts Award for Opera, and the Philharmonic Society Award for Opera and Music Theatre. Rachael also won the Special Prize at the International Competition for Young Opera Directors in Moscow, 2018.
Recent engagements include productions at Aldeburgh Festival, Irish National Opera, Dutch National Opera, Royal Academy Opera (London), English National Opera, Metropolitan Opera, Glyndebourne, Bergen National Opera and Opera Holland Park.
Other work includes productions at Garsington Opera, Buxton Opera Festival, Royal College of Music, National Opera Studio, Sadler’s Wells, London’s West End, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre Royal Bath, Soho Theatre as well as extensive television and film work; including for the BBC, ITV and Sky.
Forthcoming productions take her to: Glyndebourne, Theatre Basel, Grand Théâtre de Genève and Irish National Opera.
