Matthew Barclay


Background: Born in the UK. Trained in Melbourne at the Victorian College of the Arts and The National Theatre Drama School. Is also a graduate of The Australian Ballet School. Is currently Senior Resident Director and Dance Supervisor for Opera Australia.
For Opera Queensland: Madama Butterfly.
Other companies/Australia: Bliss, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Dido and Aeneas, L’incoronazione di Poppea, Alcina, La clemenza di Tito, Idomeneo, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Julius Caesar, La bohème, La traviata, Madama Butterfly, Il trovatore, Simon Boccanegra, L’elisir d’amore, Les pêcheurs de perles, Carmen, Les contes d’Hoffmann,
Béatrice and Bénédict, Eugene Onegin, The Merry Widow, Der Freischütz, Tannhäuser, Madeline Lee, The Love for Three Oranges, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and the Brisbane season of Julie Taymor’s production of The Magic Flute (Opera Australia), Faust (West Australian Opera), Don Giovanni, L’elisir d’amore, Carmen (State Opera of South Australia), La clemenza di Tito (VCA Opera Studio), Die Fledermaus (Sydney Conservatorium), the 2002 and 2003 Australian Dance Awards (The Australian Dance Council - Ausdance).
International: Associate director/choreographer Julius Caesar (Los Angeles Opera). Director Madama Butterfly (Pittsburgh Opera, Opéra de Montréal), Carmen (National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan), Il trovatore (Macau International Musical Festival in China).