Victoria Newlyn BA(English) BA(Acting)

Victoria works as an actress, having trained at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and as a movement and drama teacher, specialising in working with singers.

She began her teaching career assisting and training with Mandy Demetriou, teaching movement on the Postgraduate Vocal Studies and Opera Courses at the Royal Academy of Music, and assisting at the National Opera Studio and the Royal Opera House.

Victoria joined the staff at the Guildhall School in 2005 and currently teaches movement and drama on the Opera Course. She also works with singers from undergraduate to postgraduate level, teaching drama, directing opera scenes programmes and creating performance projects in collaboration with other staff. Victoria also leads performance studies and historical dance sessions for the Department of Historical Performance.

Choreography and movement direction includes Don Giovanni (Opera North), La Wally and Un ballo in maschera (Opera Holland Park), Le nozze di Figaro and The Rape of Lucretia (British Youth Opera), Die Walküre and The Rake’s Progress (St Endellion Festival), Ariodante (Cambridge Handel Opera), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and Le nozze di Figaro (Guildhall School), and Eugene Onegin, Mansfield Park, Die Zauberflöte, Die Dreigroschenoper, La Calisto and Rinaldo (Royal Academy Opera, where she continues to teach).

Victoria regularly collaborates with Iain Burnside, and has worked on the shows Seduced (Guildhall), Lads in Their Hundreds (Guildhall, Kings Place & Ludlow Festival), and A Soldier and a Maker (Barbican Pit & tour).

In 2013, Victoria is directing Atalanta for CHO, Die Fledermaus for Clonter Opera and Carmen for St Endellion Festival. She will be playing Clara Schumann in Iain Burnside’s chamber drama Shining Armour, a re-imagining of Brahms’ Die schöne Magelone, with Roderick Williams (Buxton Festival) and William Dazeley (Machynlleth Festival).