Simon Butteriss Actor/Writer/Director
Writer/director/translator/actor/singer/presenter - Simon Butteriss read English at Cambridge, trained at the RCM Opera School and started his career as an actor in West End plays and musicals and with the RSC, OLd Vic Company and at Chichester. He has also made numerous film and television appearances. As a performer, he is perhaps best known in the Gilbert and Sullivan patter roles, which he continues to sing all over the world and he now also pursues a busy career in international opera, singing at La Scala, Milan, with English National Opera and others.
Agents
Nicki Stoddart [email protected] +44 (0) 20 3214 0869
Credits
Opera
Production Company Notes LA COLOMBE West Green House Opera Director and translator 2016
DIE FLEDERMAUS Philharmonia Orchestra Director, Royal Festival Hall; also 2014 wrote narration
CARMEN RTE Orchestra wrote narration 2014
THE MIKADO/IOLANTHE National tour director 2014
THE MIKADO Raymond Gubbay Director Royal Festival 2013 Hall,Manchester Bridgewater Hall, Birmingham Symphony Hall
IOLANTHE International Gilbert and Director Buxton Opera House, 2013 Sullivan Festival Harrogate Royal Hall
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes PRINCESS IDA International Gilbert and Director Buxton Opera House, 2013 Sullivan Festival Harrogate Royal Hall
THE MERRY WIDOW Philharmonia Orchestra/John Director Royal Festival Hall /also wrote 2012 Wilson Narration
THE MIKADO International Gilbert and Director Buxton Opera House. 2012 Sullivan Festival Harrogate Royal Hall
THE YEOMEN OF THE Philharmonia Orchestra/John Director Royal Festival Hall and, with GUARD Wilson RLPO, Liverpool Philharmonic Hall 2012
HMS PINAFORE Raymond Gubbay Director Barbican Hall, Manchester 2012 Bridgewater Hall. Birmingham Symphony Hall, Edinburgh Usher Hall, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
IOLANTHE West End Additional lyrics
DIE ENTFUHRUNG AUS Orchestra of the Age of translation and narration, DEM SERAIL Enlightenment Premiered by Boston Symphony Orchestra
SOSARME London Handel Festival Translation
FRA DIAVOLO Stanley Hall Translation
LA PIETRA DEL Stanley Hall Opera Translation PARAGONE
FIDELIO Orchestra of the Age of wrote Narration Enlightenment/Brighton Festival
IL BARBIERE DI Opus 1 Music Translation SIVIGLIA
LA VOIX HUMAINE Critical Mass Translation of Poulenc's opera
KISS AND TELL MOZART Covent Garden Festival 70 minute, 6 singer version of FIGARO
LET'S MAKE AN OPERA Britten Estate and Aldeburgh New play to precede THE LITTLE Productions SWEEP
THE MAGIC FLUTE AND Wigmore Hall 70 minute, 3 singer version of Mozart's THE BROOMSTICK FLUTE/Humperdinck's HANSEL & GRETEL
THE MIKADO West End Additional lyrics
Other
Production Company Notes DRAW ON SWEET NIGHT Feature film 'translated' screenplay into 17th Century 2014 English
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes BRETTL Lieder RCM translated the Schonberg song cycle 2014
HELLO DOLLY RTE orchestra wrote narrative script 2014
THE VERY BEST OF Raymond Gubbay Director at Barbican Hall, Bridgewater Hall GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Manchester, Symphony Hall Birmingham, also 2014 wrote linking script
PETER AND THE WOLF CBSO Wrote new narration
YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE CBSO/Britten Estate Wrote new narration TO THE ORCHESTRA
CARNIVAL OF THE Wigmore Hall Adapted narration ANIMALS
Essay on Schoenberg Aldeburgh Festivals
Essay on Britten Aldeburgh Festivals
Essay on Verdi's TRAVIATA Longborough Festival
Essay on Strauss Opera della Luna
Radio
Production Company Notes SIMON BUTTERISS ON PUSHKIN BBC Radio 3 Presenter Saturday Classics 2017
WHAT'S COMIC ABOUT OPERA BBC Radio 3 Presenter, Saturday Classics 2016
I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR BBC Radio 4 Director and co-writer GENERAL 2015
Television
Production Company Notes A MOTLEY PAIR Capriol Films/Sky Arts 5 part series, written and presented by Simon
A SALARIED WIT Capriol Films/SkyArts George Grossmith documentary, written and presented by Simon
Song Lyric: ALMOST LIKE ITV for Lynda La Plante's ABOVE SUSPICION BEING IN LOVE
A GOOSEBERRY FOOL Capriol Films/Sky Arts Oliver Goldsmith documentary, written and Presented by Simon
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected] Production Company Notes WHAT MADE MOZART TIC? C4/3MBTV Translation of Mozart lyrics
United Agents | 12-26 Lexington Street London W1F OLE | T +44 (0) 20 3214 0800 | F +44 (0) 20 3214 0801 | E [email protected]