Natascha Metherell

Metherell’s current and future engagements include Carmen - Director/Designer (Den Norske Opera & Ballett); La bohéme (Opera Holland Park); Nothing (Den Norske Opera & Royal Danish Opera); I Pagliacci (Søholm Opera); and a new commission for the Copenhagen Opera Festival.

Her credits in both opera and theatre include Tristan und Isolde (Royal Danish Opera); a chamber version of Carl Nielsen’s Maskarade (Royal Danish Opera/Copenhagen Opera Festival); Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Danish Opera Academy); Titanic - World Premiere & Mostly Mozart (Royal Danish Academy of Music); La bohème (Copenhagen Opera Festival & Cincinnati Opera); Bake for one hour (English National Opera); Two Truths (Glyndebourne on Tour); Oklahoma! (Opera Holland Park); Krona Vaskeriet (Søholm Opera); The Snow Queen (The Rose Theatre, London); Catenae (The Royal Court Theatre, London); Distortion (Lyric Hammersmith); Kickaround (Jerwood Space); Miss Julie (Greenwich Playhouse). She is currently Co-Artistic Director of Mischief Company – a physical theatre company based in the UK; and is a former Associate Director of The Rose Theatre, London.

Natascha has also worked extensively as an associate director with Sir Jonathan Miller, Kasper Holten, Terry Gilliam, Laurent Pelly, and Robert Carsen on productions including Benvenuto Cellini (Opera National de Paris; Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Opera di Roma; Dutch National Opera; English National Opera); Maskerade, La traviata, Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin (Royal Danish Opera); La bohème (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona; Cincinnati Opera); La damnation de Faust (Staatsoper Berlin; Teatro Massimo di Palermo; Opera Vlaanderen;); A Soldier’s Tale (New National Theatre, Tokyo).

Natascha was educated in London and has a BSc in Neurosciences.