Denni Sayers (United Kingdom)

Choreographer

HGO Performances: Peter Grimes (2010), Chorus! (2009), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2009), The Little Prince (2004, 2003).

About the Artist: Sayers’ recent and future work includes Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne)‚ Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean (Royal National Theatre)‚ Sweeney Todd (Chichester Festival), The Flying Dutchman (English National Opera), Elektra (Salzburg), Parsifal (English National Opera), Ariadne auf Naxos (Welsh National Opera as revival director), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Porgy and Bess (Chicago), Ariadne auf Naxos (Toronto), Salome (Baden Baden)‚ Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall), and Peter Grimes (Canadian Opera Company as revival director). She has choreographed for Oedipus (Royal National Theatre) and Die Frau ohne Schatten (St Petersburg); Cyrano de Bergerac‚ Carmen‚ Paul Bunyan, and The Bartered Bride (Royal Opera House); Boris Godunov (English National Opera and Bastille); Rebecca (Vienna); Arshak II (San Francisco); Peter Grimes (Amsterdam); War and Peace (Bastille); Porgy and Bess (Washington, Chicago, and San Francisco); L’Amour des Trois Oranges and Carmen (Sydney); The Little Prince (Houston‚ Milwaukee‚ Boston, and BBC TV); and Of Mice and Men (Bregenz). Additional productions include Der fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, Eugene Onegin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Fidelio, Turandot, Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Pirates of Penzance, and Aïda, among others. She has worked with directors such as Jonathan Kent, Daniel Slater, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Neil Armfield, and Francesca Zambello. As a director‚ Sayers’ credits include the revivals of works including Of Mice and Men (Washington) and Ariadne auf Naxos (Boston); new productions of Tosca (Toronto), West Side Story (Tel-Aviv)‚ and Rachel Portman’s The Water Diviner’s Tale; and two Dr. Who concerts (BBC Proms).