Sinéad O'Neill
Uprising, Glyndebourne, January 2025
'Superbly directed by Sinéad O'Neill'
- Tim Ashley, The Guardian * * * *
'Superbly organised and powerfully written'
- Nicholas Kenyon, The Telegraph * * * *
Uprising, RSNO, Usher Hall, Edinburgh, March 2025
'Raw and authentic... viscerally thrilling'
- David Smythe, Bachtrack * * * *
'Engrossing and imaginative music theatre'
- Kate Calder, Edinburgh Music Reivew
Amor Mundi, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, June 2024
'wonderful and timely'
'It showed me the power of music'
- audience feedback
L'elisir d'amore (revival), Glyndebourne 2023
'slick, stylish and straight to the point...classic opera buffa at its best'
- Miranda Heggie, The Arts Desk
The Spectre Knight, Wexford Festival Opera, October 2022
'Director Sinéad O’Neill and musical director, Gioele Muglialdo – along with an excellent young cast – expertly exploited the energy and charm of The Spectre Knight. O'Neill indulges the sentimentality while keeping one tongue firmly in cheek... This was a performance of free-flowing fun, greatly enjoyed.'
- Claire Seymour, Opera Today
Pay the Piper, Glyndebourne, February 2022
'A significant achievement' - George Hall, Opera
'Familiar fairy tale expertly crafted' - The Stage * * * *
'innovative...unique...a labour of love' - Mark Aspen
Precipice, The Grange Festival, August 2020
'O'Neill's use of the differing landscapes is wonderfully original... The whole thing is a wonderful example of what the imagination can accomplish in difficult times.' - Tim Ashley, The Guardian * * * *
'A mirror of our times in mixed art forms... an event that's innovative, ambitious and responsive to conditions.' - David Karlin, Bachtrack * * * *
Il barbiere di Siviglia (revival) Glyndebourne Festival, 2019
'Happily revival director Sinead O’Neill has succeeded in calming down the staging while preserving
its joyful energy...' - Amanda Holloway, The Stage * * * *
'A magnificent performance of a superb production of a glorious opera.'
- William Hartston, The Express * * * * *
'Revival director Sinéad O’Neill has taken Figaro’s razor and sharpened up the stage action.'
- Mark Pullinger, Bachtrack * * * *
Sketches made by audience member Sam Motherwell
at On the Axis of this World
Pelléas et Mélisande: Glyndebourne Festival at the BBC Proms
(semi-staging by Sinéad O'Neill) July 2018
'Undoubtedly the best-ever semi-staging of an opera at the Proms.'
- Jim Pritchard, Seen & Heard International