About

Described as “a talent to look out for”, Beth Fitzpatrick is currently studying a Masters in Orchestral Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. The current Female Conductor trainee at Opera North for the 25/26 Winter season, she was recently nominated for a Fringe Theatre Award for her conducting of Don Giovanni with Ensemble Orquesta in August 2025.

She previously studied Music at the University of Oxford, (BA, MSt), where 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, Orfée aux Enfers and Alcina, 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 nomination. She was the Female and Non-Binary Conductor Trainee at Opera North (25-26), assisting on productions of Le nozze di Figaro and Britten’s Peter Grimes, and is the assistant conductor of the Alina Orchestra.

Future performances include Opera North’s family concert series ‘Orchestra Unpacked’, Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, and Mozart’s Così fan tutte. She will also assist productions of Hansel und Gretel with Opera North, Handel’s Alcina at RWCMD, 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.