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Lee Blakeley
From: West Yorkshire, England. LA Opera: Falstaff (2013).
The late Lee Blakeley (1971-2017) trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. With the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, he directed the French premieres of four Sondheim musicals: Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music (with Leslie Caron) and Into the Woods. He directed The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, Madama Butterfly and The Pearl Fishers with Santa Fe Opera; The Tales of Hoffmann for Canadian Opera Company; a new musical, Pat Kirkwood is Angry, at the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Brits Off Broadway Festival; Orfeo ed Eurydice for Minnesota Opera; and A Night at the Chinese Opera for Scottish Opera. His most recent productions included Il Turco in Italia for Angers Nantes Opéra and The King and I for the Châtelet. He was made a Winston Churchill Fellow in 2007.
The late Lee Blakeley (1971-2017) trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. With the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, he directed the French premieres of four Sondheim musicals: Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music (with Leslie Caron) and Into the Woods. He directed The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, Madama Butterfly and The Pearl Fishers with Santa Fe Opera; The Tales of Hoffmann for Canadian Opera Company; a new musical, Pat Kirkwood is Angry, at the Manchester Royal Exchange and the Brits Off Broadway Festival; Orfeo ed Eurydice for Minnesota Opera; and A Night at the Chinese Opera for Scottish Opera. His most recent productions included Il Turco in Italia for Angers Nantes Opéra and The King and I for the Châtelet. He was made a Winston Churchill Fellow in 2007.