Andrew George

Andrew George was born in South Wales and trained at Laban Dance Centre. He worked as a dancer for Matthew Bourne for several years before beginning his career as an opera choreographer, and now works for the world’s leading companies.

His British opera credits include Andrea Chenier (also Barcelona), The Trojans, Adriana Lecouvreur (also Barcelona, Vienna and Paris) and Salome for Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Turn Of The Screw, Agrippina (also Barcelona), The Handmaid’s Tale, Die Walküre for English National Opera; Die Entfuhrung, Meistersinger , Giulio Cesare, (also Chicago and Lille), Carmen (also Copenhagen) for Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Giulio Cesare, Rakes Progress (also Turin), La Traviata (also WNO, Geneva, Barcelona and Madrid) for Scottish Opera; Der Rosenkavalier (also Scottish Opera & ENO) for Opera North; A Love For Three Oranges and I Capuletti I Montecchi for Grange Park Opera.

Other choreography includes: Agrippina, Adriana Lecouvreur,  Cavelleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci, Anna Bolena, Giulio Cesare, Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera); Rusalka ,  Wozzeck  & Die Meistersinger (Chicago Lyric Opera) Rosenkavalier (Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Oslo); Carmen (Dallas Opera); ; Tristan Und Isolde (Tokyo &Vienna), Don Carlos (Frankfurt & Tokyo); Turn Of The Screw (Mariinski-Kirov and Madrid); L’Elisir D’Amore (Amsterdam); A Little Night Music (Paris Châtelet); Orlando (Lille and Champs – Elysees, Paris); Ariodante & Semele (Champs-Elysées, Paris); L’Incoronazione Di Poppea (Champs-Elysées, Strasbourg, Staatsoper Berlin, La Monnaie, Copenhagen); Das Rheingold,  Die Walküre, Siegfried, Gotterdamerung and Cosi Fan Tutte (Opéra National du Rhin); La Belle Hélène (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence); Les Contes D’Hoffmann (Salzburger Festspiele); Griselda(Deutsche Oper Berlin); La Bohème (Hamburg); Tannahäuser (La Scala); Agrippina and Orphée Aux Enfers (La Monnaie), Il Barbiere Di Siviglia; Venus and Adonis, Dido and Aeneas (Vlaamse Opera and Innsbruck Early Music Festival); The Cunning Little Vixen (Maastricht); The Handmaid’s Tale (Copenhagen); Il Trovatore (Gothenburg). Der Fliegende Holländer, Daphne (New York City Opera); Il Trovatore (Los Angeles)

Future work includes new productions of  Falstaff for Scottish Opera and Otello for Chicago Lyric Opera.