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Thomas Guthrie
Director/Actor/Singer
“Thomas Guthrie is hot news. His imagination knows no bounds.” (Opera Now) An innovative
director, musician, singer, writer and actor working in classical music and theatre, Guthrie was Young
Artist Stage Director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden for two years, where he assisted
Robert Carsen, Olivia Fuchs, Stephen Langridge, Piero Faggioni, Patrice Caurier, Moshe Leiser, Martin
Duncan and Justin Way.
In 2014, he directed a revival of Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Royal Opera House, and directed and
performed in Purcell Fairy Queen for Middle Temple Hall (where Shakespeare Twelfth Night was
premièred). The 2015 season saw him assist Sir David McVicar for Andrea Chenier (reviving it for
NCPA, Beijing in May) and Die Zauberflöte at the Royal Opera House, produce a new Easter show for
Classical Opera Company, J.C. Bach’s Adriano in Siria, and direct the UK Premiere of Jonathan Dove
The Monster in the Maze with the LSO and Sir Simon Rattle. In July 2015, Guthrie directed a rare
performance of Tavener Veil of the Temple at St Olav's Festival in Norway with conductor Stephen
Layton. Guthrie’s own production company, GOT Company, has received critical acclaim for its
recent show at Spitalfields Festival, Death Actually, which includes the world’s first staging of three
Bach motets as well as a new orchestration of Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin performed with a
puppet, strings, guitars and percussion; the production will tour again in 2015/2016. Upcoming plans
include directing Tarka the Otter for the Two Moors Festival, and assisting Damiano Michieletto for a
double bill Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the Royal Opera House, as well as further
collaboration with Classical Opera. Thomas also regularly performs at festivals across Europe with
imaginative ensemble Barokksolistene.
Guthrie began his musical training as a boy under George Guest at St John’s College, Cambridge. He
then returned to Cambridge to read Classics at Trinity College before winning a scholarship to study
at the Royal Northern College of Music, where prizes included the Fassbaender Award for Lieder, the
Schubert Prize, and an ESU scholarship to study with Sir Thomas Allen in Chicago. As a baritone
Guthrie has sung in some of the world’s most prestigious venues from New York and Bolivia to
Tokyo, London (Wigmore Hall & Southbank Centre) and Sydney. In 2006 he created the role of the
‘Officer’, based on the writer Henry Williamson in Stephen McNeff’s award winning Tarka the Otter.
Guthrie has recently re-trained as a tenor, explaining “Tenors definitely have all the fun, and are
more likely to play the love interest”! Recent performances have included a programme of music by
Schutz with I Fagiolini in Aldeburgh, a Schubert recital at the Hay on Wye festival, and programme of
songs by Ivor Gurney at the Temple Church to commemorate the First World War.
Guthrie’s production of Ludd and Isis, an opera commissioned to launch the Royal Opera House’s
new Production Park in Thurrock, involved a massed cast of hundreds including both professionals
and amateurs, and was described as “a spectacular production” “one of the Royal Opera Houses
greatest achievements.” (Opera Now). Other productions include Orlando Generoso (Barber Opera),
Hot House, Ludd and Isis (Royal Opera House), Barber of Seville, Fairy Queen (English Touring Opera),
Barber of Seville (Diva), Magic Flute (winner of an Angel Award at the Brighton Festival), Fairy Queen
(Evening Standard Cultural Highlight 2006) and King Arthur (Armonico Consort), Der Stein der
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Weisen, Impresario, Cimarosa Two Barons of Rocca Azzurra (Bampton Classical Opera), Donizetti
Rita, Walton The Bear (Royal Opera House), the David Owen Norris/Mozart triple bill Two Murders
and a Marriage, and Bach St John Passion. Guthrie’s “must-see” (Independent) production of
Winterreise with puppets and animation has toured festivals in London, St Endellion, Buxton, Oslo
and Aldeburgh. He directed the world premiere of Bootmaker’s Daughter at Brighton Festival with
the Cardinall’s Musick in 2008. A passionate advocate for music education, Guthrie has also worked
with Streetwise Opera leading regular music theatre workshops with London’s homeless people. In
2014 Guthrie also directed Lang’s Crowd Out for 1000 voices which was commissioned by BCMG
Sound Investment, Spitalfields Music and the Berlin Philharmonic.
Guthrie lives in London and is a proud Dad to two boys.
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