Victoria Newlyn

Victoria trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.  She works as an opera director and choreographer and teaches Movement and Drama at the Guildhall School and the Royal Academy of Music in London.

She enjoys a close association with the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, where she has directed Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring, The Rape of Lucretia and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Telephone (Menotti) / A Dinner Engagement (Berkeley); and most recently, Postcard from Morocco (Argento).

Victoria has directed Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro for British Youth Opera; Respighi’s Maria egiziaca / La bella dormente nel bosco; Monteverdi madrigals, and Aminta e Fillide (Handel) / Venus and Adonis (John Blow) for the Guildhall School, and The Burning Fiery Furnace (Britten) for Royal Academy Opera. With the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Victoria has directed Birtwistle’s The Last Supper and Tippet’s New Year in Glasgow; and Kurtág’s Fin de partie and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms.

Victoria’s work is focused around young and developing artists, enabling expression, agency and ownership of existing and newly created work. She continues to perform as an actor, mainly in collaboration with singers and musicians.

Updated September 2025