Tom Deazley

About

Tom Deazley is a director from Belfast, Northern Ireland and a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where he trained with singers such as Iain Paton, Karen Cargill, and Dame Anne Murray. Finding himself in opera at a young age, he performed Miles in Britten’s Turn of the Screw at the likes of Opernhaus Zürich, Kolobov Novaya Opera Moscow, and Northern Ireland Opera. After graduating, he was a Young Artist at Nevill Holt Opera in their productions of La Bohème and The Barber of Seville and also performed in a number of shows with the Gilbert and Sullivan International Festival.

Now as a director, he is a young artist with British Youth Opera as a member of their Serena Fenwick Programme, and he has completed observerships at places such as Longborough Festival Opera with Sarah Fahie for their production of Puccini’s La Bohème, and at Wexford Festival Opera with Orpha Phelan for their production of Donizetti’s Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali. He has been a facilitating artist at both Ulster Touring Opera and The Playhouse Theatre Derry, and has assisted Anna Morrissey at Blackheath Halls Opera, Mark Burns at the Royal Northern College of Music, and Mathilda du Tillieul McNicol at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre.

Credits

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Wexford Festival Opera)

La Bohème (Longborough Festival Opera)

Turn of the Screw (Opernhaus Zürich)

La Bohème (Nevill Holt Opera)

The Barber of Seville (Nevill Holt Opera)