Walter Sutcliffe

Who is Walter Sutcliffe?

Walter Sutcliffe is a British opera and theatre director.

His work has been seen in the UK, US, Germany, Austria, The Czech Republic, and Estonia, including productions of Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning, Strindberg's The Great Highway and the Austrian premier of Michael Tippett's The Knot Garden for the Klangbogen Festival in Vienna. He recently directed the American stage premiere of Leoš Janáček's first opera, Sarka, for Dicapo Opera, New York. He is currently developing new productions for Estonian National Opera, Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt, Linz Opera and Dicapo Opera.

His production of Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave opened on 24 January 2010 at the Bockenheimer Depot of the Opera Frankfurt am Main.

Sutcliffe's parents are the opera critic Tom Sutcliffe and the playwright and librettist Meredith Oakes.