About

Described as “a talent to look out for”, Beth Fitzpatrick is an award-winning conductor currently studying a Masters in Orchestral Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She previously studied Music at the University of Oxford, (BA, MSt). She established herself as a prominent musical director in Oxford, leading productions of The Mikado (2022), Le nozze di Figaro (2023), and Don Giovanni (2024).

Now based in Cardiff, she has assisted on productions of Sweeney Todd, Orphée aux Enfers and multiple Opera Scenes performances, and conducted world premieres of several symphonic and choral works. She made her London conducting debut with Ensemble Orquesta’s Don Giovanni (2025), earning a Fringe Theatre Award in the Opera (Music) category. She was the Female and Non-Binary Conductor Trainee at Opera North (25-26), assisting on productions of Le nozze di Figaro, Britten’s Peter Grimes, and David Fennessey’s Pass the Spoon. She also conducted the run of Opera North’s family concert series ‘Orchestra Unpacked’ and assisted the Opera North Youth Orchestra’s performance of Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. She is the assistant conductor of the Alina Orchestra in Milton Keynes where she recently jumped in to conduct a performance of Max Richter’s Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi – The Four Seasons.

Future performances include Verdi’s La Traviata, Hansel and Gretel with Opera North, Puccini’s Tosca and the world premiere of Lisa Logan’s After my Breath: A Love Letter to Greta at the Grimeborn Festival, UK. She will also assist on RWCMD’s production of Handel’s Alcina and Loesser’s Guys and Dolls, and Opera Prelude’s double bill of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Weill’s Die sieben Todsünden (Seven Deadly Sins) at Opera Holland Park in August.