Act Two

Thursday 22 January 2026 | 7.30pm

Friday 23 January 2026 | 2.30pm & 7.30pm

Join us for the second set of opera scenes with our 2025/26 Young Artists.

This performance, centred on the theme of love triangles, will be directed by Melly Still and staged at the National Opera Studio. The Young Artists will bring to life emotionally charged scenes from operas including Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier under the guidance of one of today’s most celebrated directors.

Melly Still has worked as a director, choreographer, designer and adaptor. Her work has travelled throughout the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, the Far East, US and Broadway. She has been nominated as Best Director and for Best Design at both the Olivier and Tony Awards for her National Theatre production of Coram Boy.

Melly recently directed a new production of Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves for Theater St Gallen and returned to Glyndebourne in 2022, directing the Festival’s opening production: The Wreckers by Ethel Smythe; while her 2019 production of Rusalka was released to great acclaim on DVD. Melly will create new opera productions in the coming seasons for Welsh National Opera, Opera Köln and Santa Fe Opera.

Programme

Wagner Das Rheingold – Scene 1

Strauss Arabella – Opening Scene

Mazzoli Breaking the Waves – Act 2, Scene 3

Smyth Les naufrageurs (The Wreckers) – Act 1, Scenes 7-9 

Previn A Streetcar Named Desire – Act 1, Scene 2 

Donizetti Rita – Trio 

Strauss Der Rosenkavalier – Opening Scene 

Sondheim A Little Night Music – A Weekend in the Country