Rebecca Meitlis

Rebecca Meitlis is a Feldenkrais Practitioner, her practice focuses on performers, building on her professional experience in Opera and Creative Learning.

As well as teaching at The National Opera Studio, she is a visiting professor at the Opera Academy Teatr Wielki Warsaw, teaches at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, ALRA and the Opéra National de Bordeaux. She collaborated with Sally Burgess on a research project, The Creative Singer, at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has been invited to teach at Exzellenz-Labor Gesang with Hedwig Fassbender

Her career in opera began when she was awarded an ACE Director’s bursary at  Scottish Opera. She was a staff director at English National Opera and co-directed the Baylis Programme with David Sulkin. She has worked for many arts and education organisations including Youth Music, Creative Partnerships and The Britten Pears Foundation.

Rebecca has published an article about her work with singers in the Journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, entitled Connecting through the breath towards expressive communication in performance; an enquiry into the training of Opera singers.