Stephen Higgins

Stephen Higgins is a conductor and pianist who has worked extensively in major opera houses and festivals both in the UK and abroad.He spent his early professional career on the music staff of Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne and English National Opera and has worked on a wide variety of repertoire, ranging from Monteverdi, Mozart, Puccini, John Adams and Stephen Sondheim.

Higgins also has an interest in music theatre, working with Sondheim on revivals of A little Night Music and Sunday in the park with George at the Châtelet theatre in Paris, and conducting Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End.

He is also considerably in demand as a vocal coach and as guest chorus master for opera companies up and down the country.
Since January 2016 Higgins has been Head of Music at Bergen Nasjonale opera in Norway. He has conducted Hansel and Gretel and Carmen for the company and has assisted visiting conductors on productions of Madama Butterfly, Il Turco in Italia, Otello, Peter Grimes and Messiah.