RHODRI HUW, TV DIRECTOR

Rhodri Huw specialises in directing music, theatre, opera, dance and large-scale events for television and cinema.

 

Opera

In the world of opera and classical music he has directed several of The Royal Opera House’s productions for live cinema and DVD – credits include The Tales of Hoffmann with Juan Diego Florez; L’elisir d’amore with Bryn Terfel and Nadine Sierra; Nabucco with Placido Domingo and Damiano Michaeletto’s Olivier Award-winning production of Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci, conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.

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With English National Opera and BBC Studios he has directed Mozart’s Requiem, the Messiah and  Yeoman of the Guard.  For Glyndebourne and Maestro Broadcasting he has directed Floris Visser’s critically-acclaimed production of La Bohème and The Merry Widow, directed by Cal McCrystal and starring Danielle de Niese. 

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BBC Music

As a director with BBC Wales Music department from 1997 to 2018, Rhodri worked on many high-profile musical events – highlights include Tom Jones and Beverley Knight’s Gospel Christmas; First and Last Nights of the BBC Proms; BBC Young Musician Finals; Radio 2 Folk Awards; Cardiff Singer of the World; London and Brecon Jazz Festivals; BBC Young Dancer; Proms in the Park; Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with Julia Fischer; Ten Pieces at the Proms; and all of the Doctor Who at the Proms concerts from the Royal Albert Hall.   

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Theatre, Dance and Events

Since leaving the BBC Rhodri has worked with many of the UK’s leading theatre companies.  For NT Live he directed Henry V from the Donmar starring Kit Harrington, and  was screen director on Complicité’s ground-breaking Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead.  For  Illuminations Media Rhodri filmed several plays at the Royal Shakespeare Company,  collaborated with Phyllida Lloyd on her ground-breaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy at the Donmar Theatre, and was screen director on Almeida’s critically-acclaimed TV adaptation of Hamlet, starring Andrew Scott and Juliet Stephenson.  

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Dance highlights include screen directing Danny Boyle’s spectacular Free your Mind, based on The Matrix, from the Aviva Studios in Manchester for BBC Two; a dance version of the Mozart Requiem with Phoenix Dance and Opera North; A Winged Bull in an Elephant Case with Studio Wayne McGregor from the National Gallery; and Kate Prince/Zoo Nation’s Mad Hatter’s Tea Party from the Lindbury Studio, Royal Opera House.

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Festival and events work include directing the tv and live streaming coverage of the annual Other Voices festival in Cardigan for South Wind Blows and Triongl, where artists have included Celeste, James Dean Bradfield, Nadine Shah, Berwyn and Gwenno.  Rhodri also directs the major bardic ceremonies and competition from the main stage of the National Eisteddfod of Wales, the BBC’s second largest annual OB event after Wimbledon. 

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International

Internationally he has directed Zarqa Al Yamama, the first grand opera in Arabic starring Dame Sara Connolly;  two of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual Europa Concerts for EuroArts, conducted by Daniel Barenboim and Sir Simon Rattle; a dramatic interpretation of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ from Cádiz with Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations; and for Idéale Audience, Rhodri directed the Missa Solemnis from Lisbon and The Creation from Naarden.