Amy Lane, Artistic Director & Festival Director, Copenhagen Opera Festival.

Amy was appointed the Artistic and Festival Director of the Copenhagen Opera Festival in December 2019.

Background:

Born in London, Amy began her career in stage management, where she worked for three years in London's West End on An Inspector Calls, for four seasons with Diva Opera, finally joining The Royal Opera, Covent Garden in 2005, where she was involved with over twenty-five productions. 

As a young singer, she performed with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, British Youth Opera, Opera Holland Park and was a backing singer for Barry Manilow at Wembley Arena. 

From 2015 to 2019 she was the Head Staff Director at The Royal Opera, Covent Garden.

Director:

Amy is the Stage & Video Director of Wagner’s The Ring Cycle for Longborough Festival Opera (2019-2024).

In 2019, Amy directed a new production of La Bohème in Copenhagen's Østre Gasværk, winning the CPH Culture Award for Best Opera Production and a nomination for Best Opera Production at the Reumert awards. 

Amy has also co-directed with Kasper Holten, Drot og Marsk for the Royal Danish Opera (winner of the Best Production Reumert Award 2019) and a new commission of Marco Polo, starring Peter Lodahl in Guangzhou, Beijing and Quanzhou. 

Amy's productions include: Romeo et Juliette (Malmö Opera, Savonlinna Opera Festival), Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company), La Bohème (Den Norske Opera & Ballett), Noye's Fludde (Amiens, Compiegne, Cambridge), The Yellow Wallpaper (Aveny-T, Copenhagen and Sadlers Wells, London)

For Sir Bryn Terfel, Amy has stage and video directed Bryn Terfel at 50 (Royal Albert Hall), Tosca (Abu Dhabi Festival, RLPO, Welsh National Opera, Eisteddfod) and Falstaff (RLPO). 

Associate Director:

The Ring Cycle (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Brothers (Armel Opera Festival – Budapest, Den Jyske Opera, The Icelandic Opera, Copenhagen Opera Festival),The Great Gatsby (Semperoper, Dresden), The Merchant of Venice (The Bregenz Festival, Polish National Opera, Welsh National Opera at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden).

Revival Director:

Tosca (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden), Don Giovanni (The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Canadian Opera Company, Liceu, Barcelona) and Krol Roger (Opera Australia). 

Stage & Video Direction:

In 2016, Amy stage and video designed War Horse in Concert, and it has been performed at The Royal Albert Hall with Joanna Lumley and Michael Morpurgo and recorded as an audio book. It was also recorded for BBC Radio 2, with Simon Callow, Juliet Stevenson and the BBC Concert Orchestra and performed in Edinburgh and Leeds in November 2018.