Stephen Higgins
Stephen Higgins is a sought-after vocal coach and chorus master as well as a conductor and pianist. He is a frequent guest with Bergen National Opera.
Stephen Higgins studied at University of Oxford, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and National Opera Studio in London. Higgins works as a conductor and pianist with leading British operahouses like Glyndebourne, Royal Opera House, English National Opera and Scottish Opera. For ENO he has conducted The Magic Flute, L’elisir d’amore for Opera Holland Park, Don Giovanni for the festival in Porto, in addition to several musicals by Sondheim for Châtelet in Paris. In 2016 he conducted Britten’s opera Owen Wingrave at Opéra National de Paris.
Higgins was the music director for the world premiere of BNOs Future Opera at the festival Borealis spring 2018, and also for our chamber version of Bizet’s Carmen on tour the same year.
He conducted Sweeney Todd for BNO in Grieghallen (autumn 2019), and was also music director for Future Opera spring 2020. (Note: the Future Opera premiere was cancelled due to the Covid-19-situation.) Higgins is the music director of Bergen National Operas's new film about Carmen, which was launched on the Norwegian TV channel NRK2 October 2020.
Listen: Ent'racte to third act from Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini at Den Nationale Scene in Bergen:
