Christopher Renshaw

Christopher Renshaw (born 18 March 1952) is a British opera and theatre director. He has directed many musicals, plays and operas in London, Australia and New York. He was nominated for a Tony Award for his work on The King and I.

He began his career in the 1970s directing opera at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and then the Royal Opera House in London. He directed operas around the world, including Europe, Australia and the US. He directed plays and musicals in London's West End and on Broadway. His production of The King and I began in 1991 in Australia, was mounted on Broadway in 1996 and in the West End in 2000. Among other more recent West End successes, Renshaw's We Will Rock You ran for 12 years.

Renshaw was born in Reading, Berkshire and educated at Reading School, where his father taught German, and Magdalen College, Oxford.

He began his career directing for three years at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera before moving to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. He has directed operas all over the world, including Eugene Onegin at the Aldeburgh Festival, conducted by Rostropovitch, Lucrezia Borgia (with Dame Joan Sutherland) in Rome, Falstaff in Monte Carlo and Luisa Miller (with Luciano Pavarotti) in Philadelphia, which was recorded for American television. Other productions of his have been seen at Opera North, Buxton Festival, Belfast, Antwerp, Oslo, Jerusalem and elsewhere. He directed eight productions of the Australian Opera at the Sydney Opera House including Aida, Norma (again with Sutherland), Trial by Jury and The Mikado, which was released on commercial video. Renshaw directed a production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal Opera House and, in 1978, the British premiere of Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orleans.

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