Projects

| 2017|

Don Giovanni - Opera Holland Park ('17)

Roxana was the Associate Director for the 2017 season at Opera Holland Park. She directed the Young Artist production of Don Giovanni based on Olly Platt's show with designer Neil Irish and lighting designer Mark Howland. The performance was on June 22nd 2017 with the City of London Sinfonia and the Opera Holland Park Chorus and sung in original Italian.

| 2016 |

Don Giovanni - Glyndebourne Opera Tour ('16)

During September Roxana has had an observership with Glyndebourne Opera. She was in the rehearsal room for the Jonathan Kent revival of Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne Opera, with revival director Lloyd Wood and conductor Pablo González. The show toured the UK in Autumn 2016.

Circus 1903 - Magic Space Entertainment (16')

Circus 1903 is a large scale circus production being created by the producers of The Illusionists and with puppets designed by the some of the makers of War Horse. Roxana has been assisting Mervyn Millar in the rehearsal room with the puppets, choreographing and devising scenes with the full size elephants (see her blog here for more information). The show will be touring Australia and North America this Autumn so if you've over seas and want tickets click here.

September 2016 | Significant Object | Assistant

La Finta Giardiniera - The Royal College of Music ('16)

Mozart's early comic opera La Finta Giardiniera is brought to life by the Royal College of Music International Opera School, directed by Harry Fehr and conductor Michael Rosewell. Performances are in the Britten Theatre on Monday 28, Wednesday 30 November, Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December 2016 for more information and tickets please see the RCM website.

November - December 2016 | RCM | Assistant Director

An Album of Memories - Indomitable Productions ('16)

An Album of Memories is a personalised concert for those living with dementia based on the connection between music and personal memory. Complete with singing, conversation and an interval full of tea and cakes, An Album of Memories was a multi-sensory, immersive project created in partnership with Arts Council England, Camden Carers and their service users. Indomitable Productions developed a program of songs based on memories from their partners' service users. After an interval of tea and conversation, the rest of the program then is built with the audience's help based on requests of songs that are important to them. The project was created with co-artistic director Guy Withers and Music Director William Cole.

August - October 2016 | Indomitable Productions as part of The Bloomsbury Festival 2016 | Creative Producer and facilitator

Iris - Opera Holland Park ('16)

The new production of Mascagni's Iris is presented by Opera Holland Park , directed by Olivia Fuchs and conducted by Stuart Stratford. Iris is one of several monumental works that Mascagni went on to compose and in this tale of an exploited young Japanese woman (written before Puccini's Butterfly), the composer set out to create something that was 'endlessly beautiful'. The tragic story takes us through the darker side of desire, hope and innocence, weaving oriental flavours into countless delicious choruses and arias and a breathtaking score that even features a short ballet. Cast includes Anne Sophie Duprels, Mikhail Svetlov, Noah Stewart and James Cleverton. For more information see here.

(May - June 2016 | Opera Holland Park) (Assistant Director)

Still Falls the Rain & An Album of Memories - Indomitable Productions (16)

Still Falls the Rain was an Arts Council Funded R&D project spanning a ten day period, with the aim to devise a new "opera" based on Benjamin Britten’s Five Canticles. Alongside this show was the outreach project, An Album of Memories, which was created for and with people living with or affected by Dementia. We created a bespoke concert format so that songs are requested live and sung by the a Capella Indomitable Ensemble - this makes every concert entirely unique and personalised.

(2016 | Tristan Bates Theatre | Age UK Offices) (Director/Facilitator/Producter/Puppet Maker)

Scenes from the End ('16)

Zero Wave presents Music for One of Two People: Solos & Duets composed for live instruments and voice. Soprano Héloïse Werner presents selections from her new solo show "Scenes from the End" composed by Jonathan Woolgar and directed by Roxana Haines. Paris-born Héloïse Werner is singer and co-director for contemporary quartet The Hermes Experiment, Park Lane Group Young Artists 2015/16 and winners of the 2014 Nonclassical Battle of the Bands. She recently created the role of Anya in one-woman opera "Mannequin" by Maria Vatenina at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival 2015. Jonathan Woolgar was 2010 winner of the Proms Young Composer Competition. His works have been performed by Manchester Camerata and Aurora Ensemble."

(2015/2016 | Tristan Bates/20th Century Theatre) (Director)

| 2015|

The Loris (Significant Object/Bloomsbury Festival '15)

"Established in 2006, Bloomsbury Festival is a creative explosion of performance, arts, music and heritage events held in the streets, parks, museums, galleries, laboratories and public and private buildings of one of London’s most vibrant cultural quarters. This area has a unique blend of academic institutions, businesses, cultural organisations and diverse communities. The Festival celebrates the best of Bloomsbury and its pioneering attitude. We’re not just a showcase for the area – we act as a catalyst to bring together artists and academics, scientists and dancers, or musicians and publishers, to make new projects and to inspire and learn from each other."

(October 2015 | Senate House, UCL) (Dramaturg)

Bloomsbury Festival ('15)

Martha and the Event Horizon ([Alter] '15)

"They haven't spoken in ten years, but when a box of memories arrives on Martha's doorstep, she knows it's from Reuben. In his recording studio, Reuben reaches across the void between them, making a gift to help Martha remember. Sound and science tell an ear-tickling story of memory, friendship, and loss."

(July 2015 | Camden People's Theatre) (Director)

Photo Finish (Indomitable Productions '15)

"Indomitable Productions presents Photo Finish, a hilarious one-man show and unconventional love story laced with all the magic and coincidence of a modern day fairy-tale. "Some people say that you fall in love, but I don't think you do. I think you jump... And I jumped" What do you do when you fall in love with a girl you barely know? Luke is a twenty-something, ready for life, and finds the girl he wants to be with in the back of a holiday snap. Follow his hilarious journey as he navigates from 'Once Upon a Time' through the treacherous and difficult waters of young love towards the promise of a happily ever after."

(June 2015 | Waterloo East Theatre) (Producer )

SharedSpace Project (Culumnus/The Prague Quadrennial '15)

"SharedSpace is a three-year international scenography research and artistic project that consists of a series of symposia (Gatherings and Retreats), experimental SharedSpace exhibitions (working titles: Music, Weather, Politics, Object, Makers, Space, Tribes) and SpaceLab the extensive educational component (series of workshops, performances, co-productions etc). The main goal of the project is to create a platform for investigation of contemporary scenography; to explore scenography as an interdisciplinary field and an active agent in the creation of spatial/performative/social relationships. Roxana is part of Cumulus, a group formed from ATP students from CSSD, who are devising a show for SharedSpace as part of The Prague Quadrennial in June 2015. Roxana is a scenographer and performer for this piece."

(July 2015 | The Prague Quadrennial) (Scenographer & Performer)

Die Fledermaus (OperaGold '15)

"OperaGold is an amateur opera company attached to Goldsmiths College, London, UK. It draws most of its cast from college members past and present, though singers from outside the college are occasionally also invited to take part. OperaGold was formed in 2004 by Nan Christie, who directs and produces. Roxana is happy to be working with Nan Christie again and with ROH Head of Music David Syrus as Assistant Director to OperaGold as they venture into Strauss' Die Fledermaus for shows in June 2015. Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner (de) and Richard Genée."

(June 2015 ) (Director - Nan Christie, Assistant Director - Roxana Haines, MD - David Syrus)

Supernova ('15)

"Roxana is overseeing a project called Supernova, a practice as research experiment about playwriting, with the aim to decipher whether script-writing is better with one writer, or three. Each writer is also a character in this piece, and will initially be writing solely from that perspective."

(*Ongoing 2015*) (Project Manager - Roxana Haines)

Crab Bucket (Absence of Apathy '15)

"Fast paced, bold, and laced with humour, Crab Bucket explores a modern perspective of the nature of feminism as seen through the eyes of the women experiencing it directly. Inspired by the theory of Crab Mentality, Crab Bucket explores the issues surrounding young women in society today and how their apathy and sexuality can have a profound effect on the recognition of their place in the world around them. Roxana is a movement consultant and co-choreographer for James Rushbrooke's play Crab Bucket, produced by Absence of Apathy."

(10th - 14th February 2015 | Waterloo East Theatre) (Director - James Rushbrooke, Movement Consultant & Co-Choreographer - Roxana Haines)

| 2014 |

Ernst Krenek's What Price Confidence? (Trinity Laban '14)

"Ernst Krenek is most famous for writing the first jazz opera, Jonny Spielt Auf in 1926. Persecuted by the Nazis, he moved to the USA in 1938, where he wrote What Price Confidence? in 1945. It might be surprising that, at that moment, he chose to write a short, comic opera about the romantic complications of two bourgeois London couples. In it, however, he worries away at the difficulty of connecting to other human beings, and of keeping faith with the human, in a world turned marketplace. After a week's intensive workshop, BMus fourth year students give an intimate performance of this overlooked work."

(12th December 2014 | Blackheath Halls) (Director - Toria Banks, Assistant Director - Roxana Haines, MD - Paul Chilvers)

Innocence & Experience (Indomitable Productions '14)

"Indomitable encourages young musicians and performers of all artistic disciplines to combine, collaborate, explore and experiment with different creative forms, frequently breaking and redefining the brackets of opera, classical music and theatrical disciplines. Innocence and Experience is an emotional and honest piece of puppetry theatre. Coupled with voice and oboe, this production finds its roots in Vaughan-Williams' song-cycle Ten Blake Songs. Innocence and Experience provides a brief but powerful look into the lives of a couple unable to conceive and their journey through the adoption process. This production conveys the intermingled sorrow and pure joy of the care sector."

(11th & 12th September 2014 | Waterloo East Theatre) (Director - Roxana Haines)

The Walthamstow Mysteries ('14)

"The Walthamstow Mysteries! “Somewhere you know, nowhere you’ve been.” For a place so enriched in history and culture, it’s not surprising our site-specific theatrical extravaganza is set within and based so strongly on this beautiful part of London. Our audiences will follow The Local Historian, The Lady of the Pageant, a Watercress Seller and a Shade as their stories lead us to the mysterious marshes where almost anything can happen…even a dragon fight!"

(6th & 7th September 2014 | Walthamstow Marshes) (Director - Becka McFadden, Assistant Director - Roxana Haines)

Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (OperaGold '14)

"As part of the Department of Music's PureGold season, OperaGold presents Mozart's 'Die Zauberflote', directed by Nan Christie and conducted by Tim Hooper. Prince Tamino promises the Queen of the Night that he will rescue her daughter Pamina from the enchanter Sarastro. He begins his quest, accompanied by the bird catcher Papageno, but all is not as it initially seems… Mozart wrote Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) for the Theater auf der Wieden and drew on the magical spectacle and earthy comedy of popular Viennese theatre. As well as being a comedy, Die Zauberflöte is an expression of Mozart’s most profound spiritual beliefs."

(12th & 13th June 2014 | The Great Hall, Goldsmiths College) (MD - Tim Hooper, Director - Nan Christie, Assistant Director - Roxana Haines)

| 2013 |

Britten's Five Canticles (Indomitable Productions '13)

"Indomitable Productions presents its debut production in celebration of Britten's centenary with a wholly new and innovative dramatization of Britten's Five Canticles, a beautiful set of songs for a small ensemble of performers. Supported by Britten100, St David's Hall, Arts Active, Cardiff Council and Cardiff University School of Music, the production will tour three centres (Cardiff, Bristol and Bath) in early December. The Five Canticles is an evening spectacle you won't forget. This thought-provoking production asks questions not only of Britten's music, but of his love and life also, focusing on the darkest and brightest moments of a person's existence."

(2nd, 10th & 12th December 2013 | Bristol, Bath & Cardiff Tour) (Director - Roxana Haines)

Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen (Bristol Opera '13)

"The Company was founded in 1923 (we are celebrating our 90th year next year) as the Bristol Opera School. The School was later renamed Bristol Opera Company, and is now generally known as Bristol Opera. For it's Autumn production, Bristol Opera is presenting a fairytale – full of colour, rich orchestral sounds and lots of animals. Be enchanted by this glorious music, which is influenced by the sounds of the forest and sets the scene of the countryside. Based on a 1920s cartoon series in a Czech newspaper, this delightful opera follows the adventures of mischievous vixen Sharp Ears, while life continues on its inevitable cycle."

(19th October 2013 | The Redgrave Theatre, Bristol) (MD - Arne Kovac, Co-Directors - Roxana Haines & Becky Barrelle)

Mozart's Don Giovanni (Tessitoura Opera '13)

"Tessitoura emerged in 2010 from a desire by a group of young musicians to perform opera in unusual and interesting venues. Don Giovanni is a man who takes what he wants: women, money, even lives... The ‘accidental’ death of the Commandatore sets in motion events which will become his undoing. Accompanied by his faithful, if unhappy companion Leporello, our flirtatious gangster evades Donna Anna's accusations and Donna Elvira's want for love and breaks Zerlina's resistance to his charms. Set in the modern day this dark, yet comic opera will be performed with spoken dialogue in a new English translation by Graham Billing."

(8th & 15th June, 6th & 12th July 2013 | Bristol Tour) (MD - Arne Kovac, Director - Becky Barrelle, Assistant Director - Roxana Haines)

Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (OperaGold '13)

"Come watch this timely performance of Benjamin Britten's mystical adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as part of the PureGold Music Festival. 'A beguiling and enchanting opera with a spellbinding atmosphere, inhabited by a truly unique dreamworld.' - Produced and directed by internationally feted Nan Christie (Opera Scotland) and conducted by Tim Hopper, the performance will feature Goldsmiths current students and alumni, full orchestra and original costumes and set. Reproduced and performed by kind permission of the Britten-Pears Library."

(6th & 7th June 2013 | The Great Hall, Goldsmiths College) (MD - Tim Hooper, Director - Nan Christie, Assistant Director - Roxana Haines)