INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler's Wells

Pelléas et Mélisande

Creative team

Madeleine Boyd
Set Designer
Madeleine trained in theatre design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Recent opera designs include Partenope for Opéra Les Azuriales, Cap Ferrat, France;
L’occasione fa il ladro/La Colombe for the Guildhall School; The Sofa/The Departure for INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler’s Wells; Orfeo ed Euridice for Theatre Augsburg, Germany and La gazzetta and La Scala di Seta for the Rossini Festival in Wildbad, Germany. Non-opera design work includes All about it (Big Fish Theatre) and Rhymes, reasons and bombass beatz (Oval Theatre). She was a finalist in the European Opera Directing Prize 2007 for her design concept for Rusalka. Plans for 2009 include costume design for Peter Grimes at the San Carlo Opera House, Napoli and design for La fedeltà premiata for the Royal Academy of Music.

Matthew Haskins
Lighting Designer
Matthew gained a BA (Hons) in Lighting Design at Rose Bruford College. His opera credits include INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler’s Wells (The Sofa/The Departure), ETO (House on the Moon, Tolomeo, Orfeo), RCM (Le nozze di Figaro), Classical Opera Company (Così fan tutte), Bridewell (Ned Rorem shorts); Young Vic/ETO (Tobias & the Angel) and Opéra Azuriales, France (Partenope). His theatre credits include Edinburgh Festival (Only The Brave), Albany Theatre (What Does it Take?), Gate Theatre (Mud), Trafalgar Studios (Lovely & Misfit), Hackney Empire (Ana in Love), Bridewell (We’ll Gather Lilacs), BAC (Orpheus Descending) and Riverside Studios (Four Knights in Knaresborough). He has created architectural and site-specific projects for Kensington Palace (Dido, Queen of Carthage), The Shout/De La Warr Pavilion (Sea Tongue) and Greenwich & Docklands Festival (Encounters). Plans include Romeo and Juliet at Wilton’s Music Hall and La fedeltà premiata at the RAM.

Natalie Murray
Assistant Conductor and Vocal Coach
Natalie studied at the Sydney Conservatorium, the Guildhall School and the National Opera Studio. She is a professor at the Royal College of Music and opera coach to the Jette Parker Young Artist Programme (ROH) and the National Opera Studio. She is also Artistic Advisor and Vocal Consultant to INDEPENDENT OPERA at Sadler’s Wells. Natalie began her career on the music staff of Welsh National Opera and continues to work for them as a guest artist. She has also worked for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, ETO, Savoy Opera, Opera Holland Park and the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. Natalie has studied conducting with Jorma Panula and was a 2007 London Symphony Chorus Conducting Scholar. She has assisted Rinaldo Alessandrini, Nicholas Kok, Peter Robinson and James MacMillan, and has recently conducted Partenope (Opéra Les Azuriales, France), 20 Women Singing (WNO), the Contemporary Opera Showcase (NOS) and workshops of Don Carlo and The Rake’s Progress (Royal National Theatre).