Meet WNO

Rebecca Meltzer

Rebecca Meltzer is an Opera Director, Movement Director and Choreographer from London. Her work draws on her backgrounds in music, movement and visual art, and is celebrated for its honest storytelling and physicality. She has collaborated with companies across the UK and internationally including the Royal Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park, Buxton International Festival, Wexford Festival and New Zealand Opera. 

Rebecca’s work as a Choreographer and Movement Director includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rodelinda (Garsington Opera/BBC Proms), The Rape of Lucretia (English Touring Opera), Andrea Chénier (Theatre St Galen), Vanessa (Spoletto Festival) and Hänsel und Gretel (Royal Academy Opera). 

Directing credits include: Semele (Opera Holland Park), Opera Shorts (Buxton International Festival), The Turn of the Screw, Svadba and Mansfield Park (Waterperry Opera Festival/New Zealand Opera). Rebecca is also the Co-Director of the Waterperry Opera Festival Young Artist Programme, a festival she co-founded in 2018.