Biography

During the 2025-26 season, Lucy Burge makes her HGO debut as the choreographer of Hansel and Gretel. Burge was a principal dancer with Rambert from 1970 to 1985, performing as a guest artist with Rudolf Nureyev. Her opera movement credits include The Rake’s Progress (Grange Park Opera); La Gioconda (Salzburg Easter Festival); Madame Butterfly (Bregenz Festival); Festen, Eugene Onegin, Samson et Dalila, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, Hansel and Gretel, L’heure espagnole, Gianni Schicchi/Il trittico, and A Masked Ball (The Royal Ballet & Opera); The Girl of the Golden West (English National Opera, Santa Fe Opera); Ariodante (Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam); Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Welsh National Opera, English National Opera); Parsifal (Paris Opera); The Makropulos Case (Frankfurt); Billy Budd (Gothenburg, Frankfurt); The Tales of Hoffmann and Lohengrin (Bavarian State Opera); Powder Her Face (Irish National Opera); Der Ring des Nibelungen (Dutch Touring Opera); Fiddler on the Roof, Rusalka, and The Queen of Spades (Grange Park Opera); Ariadne auf Naxos (Scottish Opera, Opera Holland Park, and Glyndebourne Festival); The Importance of Being Earnest (Northern Ireland Opera); and Carmen (Opera North). Theater work includes Oliver Twist (Regent’s Park Theatre) and Oresteia (Shakespeare’s Globe).