Meet our fabulous Creative Team
Madeleine Allegra Brooks
Stage Director
Alastair Chilvers
Music Director
Alastair is a freelance musician and arts education specialist who is particularly passionate about commissioning and conducting new works for young people. He is delighted to be working with the wonderful LYO creative team again for this year’s opera!
Having trained in opera directing at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Madeleine has worked as an assistant director with The Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Longborough Festival Opera and the Royal Opera House - assisting directors including Richard Jones, Olivia Fuchs, Sarah Fahie and Anthony Almeida. Also working in theatre, last year she was resident director for Robert Icke's The Doctor for its tour and West End run. Madeleine was one of 10 directors invited to take part in the semi-final of the European Opera Directing Prize 2023 in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Maggie Rawlinson
Choreographer & Movement Director
Maggie trained at the Arts Educational School. As an associate artist of London Youth Opera (formerly W11 Opera) Maggie has had the pleasure of working on over a dozen productions for the company to date. Her first production was with Annilese Miskimmon, working as Movement Director on Shadowtracks and since then has collaborated with four other directors and twice previously with this year's composer Stuart Hancock and librettist Donald Sturrock on The Cutlass Crew and Rain Dance.