OPERA DIRECTOR, MOVEMENT DIRECTOR, TEACHER & FACILITATOR
"Waterperry, and this excellent production in particular (directed by Rebecca Meltzer), proves that opera does not have to be grand to be successful."
Simon Heffer, The Telegraph, Mansfield Park 2022
"[Meltzer’s] joy-fuelled Mansfield Park sets a new benchmark of quality, vibrancy and sheer fun."
Charlotte Valori, Bachtrack, Mansfield Park 2018
★★★★★
" Meltzer’s sparkling production [...] ran the gamut of every emotion: it moved the audience to tears during the rhapsodic standing ovation, and its two acts were an unbroken joy."
Alison Boulton, Mansfield Park 2018
"Rebecca Meltzer’s interpretation of not only the space but the score clearly helped to define the worlds in which Ariel believed they were living. Having an operatic experience not defined by pearls, red velvet and viewing boxes but liberated by fresh drizzle, the clapping of pigeon’s wings and swathes of English Lavender truly transcended Jonathan’s irking composition. A song cycle I never knew I needed to see until I saw it."
Ella K Clarke, Daily Info, Ariel 2020
Simon Heffer, The Telegraph, Mansfield Park 2022
"[Meltzer’s] joy-fuelled Mansfield Park sets a new benchmark of quality, vibrancy and sheer fun."
Charlotte Valori, Bachtrack, Mansfield Park 2018
★★★★★
" Meltzer’s sparkling production [...] ran the gamut of every emotion: it moved the audience to tears during the rhapsodic standing ovation, and its two acts were an unbroken joy."
Alison Boulton, Mansfield Park 2018
"Rebecca Meltzer’s interpretation of not only the space but the score clearly helped to define the worlds in which Ariel believed they were living. Having an operatic experience not defined by pearls, red velvet and viewing boxes but liberated by fresh drizzle, the clapping of pigeon’s wings and swathes of English Lavender truly transcended Jonathan’s irking composition. A song cycle I never knew I needed to see until I saw it."
Ella K Clarke, Daily Info, Ariel 2020
Top photo by Graham Turner (The Turn of the Screw, 2024)
Bottom photo by Marc Brenner (Svadba, Waterperry Opera Festival, 2022)
Bottom photo by Marc Brenner (Svadba, Waterperry Opera Festival, 2022)