Tim Hopkins works in two related areas: opera direction and making new lyric theatre works with multimedia elements.
He has directed operas for WNO, ENO, The Royal Opera, Opera North, Teatro dell'Opera Roma, Bayerische Staatsoper Festspiel, Staatsoper Hannover, Theatre Basel, Graz Oper, Glimmerglass USA, Almeida Opera, Aldeburgh Festival, Alternative Lyrique Paris and others.
He has directed operas for WNO, ENO, The Royal Opera, Opera North, Teatro dell'Opera Roma, Bayerische Staatsoper Festspiel, Staatsoper Hannover, Theatre Basel, Graz Oper, Glimmerglass USA, Almeida Opera, Aldeburgh Festival, Alternative Lyrique Paris and others.
Tim's current new works include Elephant and Castle, a live performance about architecture divided between two locations linked by the web, (London Artists Projects/Aldeburgh Productions); Les Noces, a meditation on Stravinsky's work (Opera Genesis at ROH2). His next opera production will be Britten's opera for television, Owen Wingrave, as a stage production for the Royal Opera.
In 2001 he was awarded a Nesta Fellowship to look at lyric theatre and new performance technology, and to consider how opera traditions of the past connect to the present. Mozart Lovers has come out of this work. It is his first film for TV.