“A nine-piece chamber orchestra, led with spirit by conductor and recitative pianist Beth Fitzpatrick, sets a lively pace for the full evening.”
About
In recent news, Beth was the first award recipient of the Opera Music category at the Fringe Theatre Awards for her conducting of Don Giovanni with Ensemble Orquesta in August 2025 at the Arcola Theatre as part of the Grimeborn Festival 2025.
Photo by Hans Kleijn (2025)
Described as “a talent to look out for”, Beth Fitzpatrick is an award-winning opera conductor. She previously studied at the University of Oxford (BA, MSt) and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
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 Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra for the 26/27 season and 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.
Recent 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, as her Opera Holland Park debut with Opera Prelude on their double bill of Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Weill’s Die sieben Todsünden (Seven Deadly Sins) at Opera Holland Park in August.
In the 26/27 season, she will begin her tenure as assistant conductor with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra, which includes conducting excerpts and pieces in performance for every concert this season, as well as taking part in the outreach work with Camden Schools.
Opera North Female Conductor Traineeship 25/26
Click here for an interview about Beth’s time at Opera North as their Female Conducting Trainee for the 25/26 season. For more information, see the link here: