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James Conway is General Director of English Touring Opera, where he produces 3-8 new productions annually, touring throughout the UK.

Born in Quebec, he was a teacher at primary, secondary and tertiary level in Canada, Ireland and India; at the same time he was writing fiction, including the award winning collection The Christians of Malabar, published in Canada. He has written on opera, theatre and contemporary visual art for journals and catalogues in Canada, Ireland and the UK. In Ireland he worked as a freelance radio journalist, scripting and presenting concert broadcasts, interval talks, and specially themed programmes; for two years he hosted his own interview programme, Invisible Thread, on RTE FM3, and for a number of seasons he filled in as presenter of RTE’s principal drive-time classical radio programme.

From 1987 until 2002 he directed Ireland’s national touring opera company, Opera Theatre Company. A number of his own productions there were given at festivals or on tour in the UK, France, Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, Australia and the USA (BAM) after Irish tours. In Ireland he founded the Opera Theatre Studio, an annual three week course for young singers in particular aspects of stagecraft.

From 2003 until 2006 he was Opera Specialist for the Arts Council of Ireland.

He has written original libretti for two operas and translations for three others.

Opera productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, Alcina, Jenufa, Teseo (ETO) Ariodante (ETO, OTC), Tolomeo (London Handel Festival/ ETO), The Cunning Little Vixen, Flavio, Tamerlano, Amadigi, Rodelinda, L'Elisir d'Amore, Katya Kabanova, Orfeo, The Rake's Progress (OTC), Cinderella (De Vlaamse Opera/Transparant), Don Giovanni (Canadian Opera Company), La Voix Humaine (Teatro Nacional São João, Oporto), staging of Kurt Weill songs (Culturgest, Lisbon), La Spinalba (Casa da Musica, Porto), Le Nozze di Figaro (Royal College of Music). Recent opera productions include Anna Bolena, Susannah, and Rusalka (ETO) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Moravian National Theatre, Brno).

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James Conway is General Director of English Touring Opera, where he produces 3-8 new productions annually, touring throughout the UK.

Born in Quebec, he was a teacher at primary, secondary and tertiary level in Canada, Ireland and India; at the same time he was writing fiction, including the award winning collection The Christians of Malabar, published in Canada. He has written on opera, theatre and contemporary visual art for journals and catalogues in Canada, Ireland and the UK. In Ireland he worked as a freelance radio journalist, scripting and presenting concert broadcasts, interval talks, and specially themed programmes; for two years he hosted his own interview programme, Invisible Thread, on RTE FM3, and for a number of seasons he filled in as presenter of RTE’s principal drive-time classical radio programme.

From 1987 until 2002 he directed Ireland’s national touring opera company, Opera Theatre Company. A number of his own productions there were given at festivals or on tour in the UK, France, Czech Republic, Belgium, Germany, Australia and the USA (BAM) after Irish tours.  In Ireland he founded the Opera Theatre Studio, an annual three week course for young singers in particular aspects of stagecraft.

From 2003 until 2006 he was Opera Specialist for the Arts Council of Ireland.

He has written original libretti for two operas and translations for three others.

Opera productions include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mary Stuart, Alcina, Jenufa, Teseo (ETO) Ariodante (ETO, OTC), Tolomeo (London Handel Festival/ ETO), The Cunning Little Vixen, Flavio, Tamerlano, Amadigi, Rodelinda, L'Elisir d'Amore, Katya Kabanova, Orfeo, The Rake's Progress (OTC), Cinderella (De Vlaamse Opera/Transparant), Don Giovanni (Canadian Opera Company), La Voix Humaine (Teatro Nacional São João, Oporto), staging of Kurt Weill songs (Culturgest, Lisbon), La Spinalba (Casa da Musica, Porto), Le Nozze di Figaro (Royal College of Music). Recent opera productions include Anna Bolena, Susannah, and Rusalka (ETO) and The Cunning Little Vixen (Moravian National Theatre, Brno).