Welsh stage director Dafydd Hall Williams is the current Artistic Director of cross-border producing company Ulster Touring Opera. Dafydd trained at the Oxford School of Drama before attaining a BA and MA at Aberystwyth University. Dafydd’s MA was undertaken in partnership with Music Theatre Wales, where he worked alongside Director Michael McCarthy on the UK premiere of Philip Glass’s In The Penal Colony, which opened in the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre.

Opera directing credits include Il Tabarro, Tosca (Wexford Festival Opera), The Hidden Valley (Tête à Tête Festival), Die Zauberflöte, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Opera Mint), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Ulster Touring Opera). As a visiting director at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dafydd has directed five productions of Opera Scenes since 2015 with undergraduate and postgraduate Vocal Studies students.