Daisy Evans

Daisy Evans works in opera, film and theatre as a director and writer. She is the recipient of the Sky Arts Futures Fund for her work as an opera director, specifically for founding and creating the innovative Silent Opera. She has been nominated for Young Director at the International Opera Awards and won Best Opera Production for her production of Cosi Fan Tutte at the OffWestEnd Awards 2012.

Her notable productions include Bluebeard’s Castle with Theatre of Sound; a film of The Telephone for the Edinburgh International Festival and Scottish Opera; Strozzi a scratch performance of a play at Shakespeare’s Globe; Don Pasquale for Welsh National Opera; Opera Highlights for Scottish Opera; Disney Fantasia for The Vaults and Disney; La Traviata for Longborough Festival Opera; King Arthur and the Fairy Queen for the Barbican and Academy of Ancient Music Carmen Remastered for the Barbican and Royal Opera House; Cosi fan tutte for Bury Court Opera; Falstaff for Wilton’s Music Hall and Fulham Opera; Wakening Shadow for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; and Der Fliegende Hollander for Fulham Opera.

As Founder Director of Silent Opera, Daisy has directed a new version of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Puccini’s La bohème and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. Silent Opera has toured internationally, and co-produced with British Youth Opera, English National Opera, Fondazione Haydn and Beijing Music Festival. As Librettist, she has written English versions of Bluebeard’s Castle, Hansel and Gretel, Don Pasquale, The Cunning Little Vixen, Don Giovanni, L’Orfeo, and La bohème.

Debut Production : Bluebeard's Castle, 2022

Website : https://www.daisy-evans.com/