Empowering opera

General director of English Touring Opera, Robin Norton-Hale discusses her sanguine drive to present ambitious performances in the current opera climate

Rebecca Toal

I’m walking down Hackney’s Mare Street on what feels like the first day of spring, albeit in February. There’s a tangible sense of hope in the air and I’m on my way to meet Robin Norton-Hale, the general director of English Touring Opera since July 2022. We sit down in a window seat; she’s on her lunch break from tech rehearsals for Manon Lescaut which, she tells me, is going smoothly under Jude Christian’s masterful directorship. Norton-Hale is an accomplished creative of many talents, making waves in her directing and writing ventures, and yet she also emits a quiet pride and confidence in her abilities to facilitate a collaborative creative process with her chosen team. ‘It seems so obvious that it’s almost not worth stating, but my one set of…

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Opera Now (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2024

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