Dancer and Opera Choreographer. She helped create productions for the leading opera houses of Great Britain and Europe. Raised in London, she studied modern dance at the Laban Centre, performed with the Tripsichore Dance Theatre Company and the Bridges Touring Company, and taught at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Drama. After spending one season with a Shakespeare troupe in Massachusetts, she held a Churchill Fellowship with the Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario, Canada. Returning to England, and Webber-Douglas, she choreographed Wagner's "Ring" for Den Norske Opera, Oslo, later bringing the production to Theatre Royal, Norwich. After her success with "The Ring", her work became much in demand; she choreographed "Iloanthe" for the Grange Opera, Bizet's "Carmen" for Mid-Wales Opera, and "Rusalka", "Don Giovanni", "Orfeo", and "I Pagliacci" for Opera North. Her most noted productions, however, were to be with the English National Opera; "Sir John in Love", "Das Rheingold", and "Lucia di Lammermoor". Glaskin was to garner special praise for her work with two of Leos Janacek's masterpieces, "The Makropolous Case" (nominated for an Olivier Award), and "Jenufa" (Olivier winner, 2007). She was to reach a much wider, and different, audience in the summer of 2008 when she was hired to teach body movement to the celebrity contestants on the BBC2 series "Maestro", essentially training them from-scratch how to conduct a symphony orchestra. Glaskin died in a motor vehicle accident while preparing a new production of Britten's "Peter Grimes" for English National Opera.
Dancer and Opera Choreographer. She helped create productions for the leading opera houses of Great Britain and Europe. Raised in London, she studied modern dance at the Laban Centre, performed with the Tripsichore Dance Theatre Company and the Bridges Touring Company, and taught at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Drama. After spending one season with a Shakespeare troupe in Massachusetts, she held a Churchill Fellowship with the Stratford Festival Theatre, Ontario, Canada. Returning to England, and Webber-Douglas, she choreographed Wagner's "Ring" for Den Norske Opera, Oslo, later bringing the production to Theatre Royal, Norwich. After her success with "The Ring", her work became much in demand; she choreographed "Iloanthe" for the Grange Opera, Bizet's "Carmen" for Mid-Wales Opera, and "Rusalka", "Don Giovanni", "Orfeo", and "I Pagliacci" for Opera North. Her most noted productions, however, were to be with the English National Opera; "Sir John in Love", "Das Rheingold", and "Lucia di Lammermoor". Glaskin was to garner special praise for her work with two of Leos Janacek's masterpieces, "The Makropolous Case" (nominated for an Olivier Award), and "Jenufa" (Olivier winner, 2007). She was to reach a much wider, and different, audience in the summer of 2008 when she was hired to teach body movement to the celebrity contestants on the BBC2 series "Maestro", essentially training them from-scratch how to conduct a symphony orchestra. Glaskin died in a motor vehicle accident while preparing a new production of Britten's "Peter Grimes" for English National Opera.
Bio by: Bob Hufford
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