OPERA director William Relton spent last summer flying back and forth between Dorset and India as he juggled filming his part – the German tourist in the multi-Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire – and helming Dorset Opera’s production of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers.
This year he’ll no doubt be enjoying the relative calm of being able to concentrate wholly on directing Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci for Dorset Opera at the Coade Theatre, Bryanston which opens a three-night run next Thursday.
William started working in the theatre as an actor in 1971, but soon found a love of opera and worked as both a singer and director for English Music Theatre in London in the 1990s before being contracted to the English National Opera. Since 1993 he has been in much demand as a director in the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands and recently directed Handel’s Xerxes at the world famous Drottningholm Theatre in Sweden.
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