As Assistant Conductor and Repetiteur, Edward Reeve has been a key member of the Royal Opera House team.  Working with Antonio Pappano, he has been preparing for the continuing roll out of the Ring Cycle and this year, specifically Siegfried.

He completed a PhD on Wagner’s orchestration at Cambridge University in 2022 which will shortly be published by Routledge. He will discuss with musical examples how this research will be used in his preparation for Siegfried looking at the trade-off between the practical and aesthetic in the orchestration.

Edward Reeve is a London-based conductor, pianist, répétiteur and organist, with many years of professional opera and solo experience, both in the UK and abroad. From 2022 to 2024, Edward worked full time on the Music Staff at the Royal Opera House as a conductor and répétiteur on the Jette Parker Artist Programme.  During his two seasons on the programme, he assisted on Jephtha, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Turandot and The Rape of Lucretia, and was a répétiteur for Così fan tutte, Don Carlo, La bohème, Tannhäuser, Das Rheingold, Elektra and Wozzeck.  In April and May 2024, Edward conducted the Britten Sinfonia for a double bill of Bohuslav Martinů’s Larmes de couteau and John Harbison’s Full Moon in March in the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre. Edward has previously worked at the Bayreuth Festival as Assistant Chorus Master on productions of Der fliegende Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Götterdämmerung and Parsifal.

Photo: Marc Brenner, 2023