Louise Bakker is a stage director across opera, theatre and musicals. She is Dutch and London-born, and studied Drama with English at Manchester University.
In Spring 2024 she will act as Assistant Director on Jonathan Kent's production of Tosca at the Royal Opera House. She will then revive Simon Stone's production of Innocence at San Francisco Opera. She will also direct Handel's Acis & Galatea at Opera Holland Park.
Directing credits include: Don Giovanni Tenorio, Orpheus in the Underworld, Opera Scenes (Royal College of Music), Lucia di Lammermoor (Brent Opera), The Rake's Progress, Jenufa, Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci (Aylesbury Opera), Saul, The Dragon of Wantley (Richmond Opera), Mozart & Salieri/Suor Angelica (Rose Opera), A Stroke of Luck (Limelight Theatre), Royal Academy of Music Opera Scenes, Shaw Goes Wilde (Pegasus Opera), Edith & Marguerite (Hen & Chickens Theatre), Assassins (Pleasance Theatre), Pravda (Bridewell Theatre), Virtue Reality (Southwark Playhouse), Waiting Room (Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Iranian Nights (John Thaw Studio Theatre) and Six Degrees of Separation (Edinburgh Festival).
Her opera scenes at the Royal Academy of Music in 2020 are available to watch here.
Associate/Revival Directing credits include Innocence (Simon Stone/Dutch National Opera), Jonathan Dove's Itch (Stephen Barlow/Opera Holland Park/Canadian Opera Company), Die Zauberflöte (Polly Graham/Royal College of Music) which is available to view here.
Assistant Directing credits include Così fan tutte, Tamerlano, Falstaff (The Grange Festival), Innocence, Jette Parker Young Artist Summer Performance (Royal Opera House), La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers (Vache Baroque Festival), Margot la Rouge/Le Villi, The Cunning Little Vixen, Kát’a Kabanová (Opera Holland Park), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Royal Academy of Music), The Enchanted Island (British Youth Opera), The School of Jealousy (Bampton Classical Opera), The Braille Legacy (Charing Cross Theatre), National Opera Studio Scenes (Welsh National Opera) and The Color Purple (Cadogan Hall).
She works extensively with the Royal Opera House’s Learning & Participation Department and has considerable performing experience as an actress, singer and voiceover artist. She studied singing at Junior Guildhall, and has sung with Manchester University's Chamber Choir Ad Solem under Marcus Farnsworth, OJ Ruthven and Matthew Hamilton, and for the New London Children's Choir under Ronald Corp.