Opera Double Bill

Guildhall School productions Lucrezia (UK premiere), Der Wald, Mansfield Park, Die Fledermaus, A Star Next to the Moon (world premiere), The Angel Esmeralda (world premiere), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Così fan tutte, The Long Christmas Dinner, A Dinner Engagement, Dialogues des Carmélites, The Tale of Januarie (world premiere), Mavra and Iolanta, The Rape of Lucretia, The Cunning Peasant, The Adventures of Pinocchio, The Little Green Swallow Dove (UK premiere), The Marriage of Figaro and Owen Wingrave with the Banff Centre (Canadian premiere).

Other operatic credits The Rhinegold, Siegfried, War and Peace, The Trojans and The Turk in Italy (English National Opera); The Barber of Seville (English National Opera and Opera North); L’elisir d’amore (Opera North); Don Giovanni (Opera North, Scottish Opera and Batignano Festival); Alceste (Scottish Opera and Opéra de Nice); Manon (New Zealand Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hungarian State Opera); Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi (New National Theatre, Tokyo); Curlew River (Geidai Arts, Tokyo); Echo and Narcissus by Stuart Macrae and Gentle Giant by Stephen McNeff (ROH2 at the Linbury – world premieres); The Sofa/The Departure by Maconchy (Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells); Pelléas et Mélisande (recorded for Chandos and shortlisted for Royal Philharmonic Society Opera Award); and productions for Royal Academy Opera, English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, Chelsea Opera Group, Batignano Festival and Berlin Opera Academy.

Orchestral and choral credits Philharmonia, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, BBC Concert, English Chamber, European Youth and Opera North orchestras, and BBC Singers, Bach Choir, London Mozart Players, Northern Sinfonia, City of London Sinfonia, Sinfonia Viva, Orchestre de l’Opera National de Bordeaux, Tokyo Mozart Players and Hong Kong Sinfonietta.

Guildhall School productions Die Fledermaus, Blond Eckbert, Sāvitri, Cendrillon, Le docteur Miracle, Phaedra, Ein Landarzt, The Long Christmas Dinner and A Dinner Engagement.

Other operatic credits The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Academy of Music); Iolanta (Operosa Opera Festival, Montenegro); Carmen (Scottish Opera); Le nozze di Figaro, Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, Ariadne auf Naxos and Phaedra (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); Lucia di Lammermoor (Clonter Opera); L’incoronazione di Poppea and Trouble in Tahiti (Royal Danish Opera Academy); Albert Herring (Co-Opera Co.); and Night Pieces – Jerwood Project (Glyndebourne/London Philharmonic Orchestra).

Other theatrical credits Twist and Shout (Il Palchetto – tour of Italy); The House of Bernarda Alba and The Dog Beneath the Skin (Cockpit Theatre, London); Hell and High Water and The Last Resort (Mobarak Festival, Tehran, winner of Artistic Excellence Award); and A Christmas Carol (Strangeface Theatre, UK and international tours).

Guildhall School productions Die Fledermaus, Fiddler on the Roof, Guys and Dolls, On the Twentieth Century, Crazy for You and Plenty.

Other operatic credits Giulio Cesare in Egitto and L’elisir d’amore (Landestheater Niederbayern, Germany); Roméo et Juliette and Bluebeard’s Castle (Opera North); Il Viaggio a Reims, Lucrezia Borgia, Radamisto, Der Silbersee, The Duenna, Teseo and Dido and Aeneas (English Touring Opera); Albert Herring (Mid Wales Opera); Le nozze di Figaro (Royal Northern College of Music); and L’amico Fritz (Danish National Opera).

Other theatrical credits The Girl on the Train (Salisbury Playhouse & national tour); The Great Gatsby, Miss Julie, Antigone, The Suicide and Blue Stockings (Chester Storyhouse); Hansel & Gretel (Rose Theatre); Macbeth (Severn Theatre), The Arrival (Tamasha/Circus Space); and Baggage (Arts Theatre West End); as well as productions for West Yorkshire Playhouse, Watford Palace Theatre, Tron Theatre, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Mercury Theatre, The New Wolsey Theatre, RADA and Unicorn Theatre.

Dance credits Tanglewood, Sensorium and Children of Adam (The Royal Ballet); Miracle in the Gorbals and Quatrain (Birmingham Royal Ballet); and Vamos Cuba! (Sadler’s Wells and tour).

As an Associate Designer Adam has opened productions of Les Misérables in Korea, Australia, Europe and Japan.

Adam graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with First-Class Honours in Theatre Design and became a group winner of the Linbury Biennial Prize for Stage Design.

Nic won Best Lighting Design at The Pantomime Awards 2026 for Sleeping Beauty at Tunbridge Wells Assembly Halls. He was nominated for Best Lighting Design at the WhatsOnStage Awards 2022 and BroadwayWorld Awards 2022 for The Book Thief. He has been nominated five times for Best Lighting Design at the Off West End Awards.

Musical credits Allegiance (Charing Cross Theatre); Rumi (London Coliseum); Gypsy and Top Hat (The Mill at Sonning); Broken Wings (Charing Cross Theatre and Middle Eastern tour); Spring Awakening (Seoul, South Korea and Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); Falsettos (The Other Palace); Umm Kulthum (London Palladium and Middle Eastern tour); The View Upstairs (Soho Theatre); Every Day and Tuck Everlasting (Birmingham Hippodrome); The Toxic Avenger (Arts Theatre); and UK tours of The Book Thief, Little Shop of Horrors and Billionaire Boy.

Theatre credits Who Let the Gods Out (Polka Theatre); Faygele (Marylebone Theatre); The Diary of a CEO Live (UK & Ireland tour); Valued Friends (Rose Theatre); Night of the Living Dead (Pleasance Theatre); Tonight: The Eighties (JACC Kuwait & Middle Eastern tour); A Guide for the Homesick, Coming Clean, 3 Women and Late Company (Trafalgar Studios); Jack and the Beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty, Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Snow White and Robin Hood (Salisbury Playhouse); and UK tours of The Mousetrap, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice and The Night Watch.

Opera credits La bohème and Opera Undone (Trafalgar Studios); and Madama Butterfly, Così fan tutte, La traviata and The Elixir of Love (King’s Head Theatre).

Associate lighting design credits Paddington (Savoy Theatre); RENT (The Tom Stoppard Theatre); Something Rotten (Manchester Opera House); and Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre).

Alongside his design work, Nic works as Theatre Relationship Manager for Chauvet Lighting.

Guildhall School productions Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Der Zar lässt sich photographieren, Aminta e Filide and Venus and Adonis as director; and numerous productions as movement director.

Director credits György Kurtág’s Fin de partie and Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the Proms); L’occasione fa il ladro (British Youth Opera); Postcard from Morocco, The Telephone/A Dinner Engagement, Albert Herring, The Rape of Lucretia and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki); Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’elisir d’amore, La Cenerentola and Così fan tutte (West Green House Opera); The Green Bird (Shanghai Theatre Academy and tour); Atalanta (Cambridge Handel Opera); Die Fledermaus (Clonter Opera); and several semi-staged productions at the St Endellion Festival.

Movement director credits include productions with Göteborg Opera, Bucharest National Opera, Opera North, Opera Holland Park, British Youth Opera and Royal Academy Opera.

Future plans Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Second Mrs Kong (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra); and The Turn of the Screw (Sibelius Academy).

Guildhall School Opera Studies: Repetiteur (second-year) studying with Elizabeth Rowe and Bretton Brown.

Scholarships Guildhall Scholarship.

Competitions Recipient of Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Silver Medal (2024).

Repetiteur credits Proving Up, Lucrezia, Der Wald, Spring Opera Scenes 2026 and Opera Makers 2026 (Guildhall School); and Dido and Aeneas and Acis and Galatea (Keble Early Music Festival).

Guildhall School Junior Fellow 2024/25 and Artistic Director of Heritage Opera.

Guildhall School productions Assistant Director Die Fledermaus and Assistant Director Opera Makers 2025.

Director credits Rigoletto (Regents Opera); If I Were You (European Premiere), Fellow Travelers (European Premiere) and The Crucible (University College Opera); Amahl and the Night Visitors (Heritage Opera); The Elixir of Love (Opera South East); Dido and Aeneas (Opera Asteria); and scenes from Pinocchio, Die Zauberflöte, Orfeo ed Euridice, Gianni Schicchi, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Così fan tutte, La finta giardiniera and Die Fledermaus (Trinity Laban).

Director and choreographer credits Mansfield Park (Heritage Opera); Carmen (Opera South East); Singin’ in the Rain (Geoids Musical Theatre); Becoming Carmen (Prologue Opera); and Shrek: The Musical (The Quay Players).

Assistant Director credits La liberazione di Ruggiero (Vache Baroque); Salome, Götterdämmerung, the revival of The Ring Cycle and Don Giovanni (Regents Opera); Trial by Jury/A Matter of Misconduct! (Scottish Opera); Rigoletto (The Royal Opera); The Elixir of Love, The Marriage of Figaro, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci (Heritage Opera); Così fan tutte and Orpheus in the Underworld (Berlin Opera Academy); The Pirates of Penzance (National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company); The Princess of Trébizonde (New Sussex Opera); Rape of Lucretia (Trinity Laban); and Serena Fenwick Programme (British Youth Opera).

Choreographer credits A Celtic Christmas (Caitlin Downie Productions); Saturday Night Fever (Geoids Musical Theatre); Don Giovanni (Regents Opera); The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance (National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company); The Marriage of Figaro (Heritage Opera); The Princess of Trébizonde (New Sussex Opera); and Thea Musgrave’s A Christmas Carol (Trinity Laban).

Future plans Assistant Director Die Walküre (Opera Forge); and Director Opera Scenes (Trinity Laban).

Guildhall School Junior Fellow.

Director credits Little Women, A Night at the Opera and Sweeney Todd (Guildhall School); In This House, La Cenerentola and Così fan tutte (Glass Light Opera); Le nozze di Figaro (Bloomsbury Opera); and a directing observership at Opera Holland Park April 2026.

Assistant Director credits Opera Scenes 2026 (dir Victoria Newlyn), Vocal Scenes 2025 (dir John Ramster), A Fairy Queen’s Midsummer Night (dir Charlie Morgan) and Vocal Scenes 2024 (dir Victoria Newlyn) (Guildhall School); La traviata (St Paul’s Opera); The Rake’s Progress (British Youth Opera); and Opera Scenes (dir Ashley Dean) (Cratoule, France).

Future plans Director for The Rape of Lucretia (Glass Light Opera).

Guildhall School BA (Hons) Production Arts: Theatre Technology (third-year).

Credits Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer Making It Festival 2026, Assistant Stage Manager Spring Opera Scenes 2026, Assistant Video Designer and Video Programmer Owen Wingrave, Lighting Designer and Lighting Programmer Black Box 2025, Lighting Programmer Enron and Lighting Operator Black Box 2024 (Guildhall School).

Howard was a 2025 ETC Fred Foster Mentee. He is a freelance assistant lighting console trainer for ETC, for which he has also written and updated training courses.