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Founded in 2012 by artistic director Ella Marchment, Helios Collective was an award-winning opera company that had development and connectivity at its heart. Through innovative and imaginative programming, Helios enabled an international community of performers, creatives, and arts partners to work together to shape the future of opera.

Director, Ella Marchment Il Letto (The Bed) was a co-production created by Helios Collective, Buxton International Festival and Copenhagen Opera Festival Buxton, England Copenhagen, Denmark July / August 2022 It is where we give birth, It is where we would like to die. It where we make love, It is where we lie next, (to each other).…

Directed by Ella Marchment Cover Production Buxton International Festival, Buxton, UK 2014 Buxton International Festival Buxton International Festival Audience Feedback ★★★★ So full of promise and potential. – Buxton International Festival Audience Feedback Photos (c) Buxton International Festival

Directed by Ella Marchment Composed by Gioacchino Rossini Buxton International Festival, Buxton, UK 2014 Buxton International Festival Planet Hugill ★★★★★ This was a wonderfully enthralling performance with some vividly virtuosic singing. – Planet Hugill Photos (c) Buxton International Festival

Assistant Director, Ella Marchment Director of Children’s Choir, Ella Marchment Director, Stephen Unwin Buxton International Festival, Buxton, UK 2014 Buxton International Festival The Guardian★★★★ A rare and delightful revival of Dvořák’s comedy – The Guardian Photos (c) Buxton International Festival

Assistant Director, Ella Marchment Director, Stephen Unwin Buxton International Festival, Buxton, UK 2015 Buxton International Festival Manchester Evening News ★★★★ Those eerie motifs which foreshadow Lucia’s lunacy are cleverly brought out, and the singers are skilfully supported. – Manchester Evening News Photos (c) Buxton International Festival

Assistant Director, Ella Marchment Director, Stephen Medcalf Buxton International Festival, Buxton, UK 2016 Buxton International Festival The Telegraph ★★★★ Buxton Festival at its best – The Telegraph Photos (c) Buxton International Festival

Assistant Director, Ella Marchment Director, Harry Silverstein Buxton International Festival, Buxton, UK 2017 Buxton International Festival The Stage ★★★★ Harry Silverstein’s modern-dress production gives credibility to the characters and their situations, however high-flown, while the general standard of singing in an opera that demands virtuosity from all its principals is never less than honourable and…

Assistant Director, Ella Marchment Director, Stephen Medcalf Buxton International Festival, Buxton, UK 2018 Buxton International Festival Planet Hugill ★★★★ An Idomeneo riven by his own demons in this striking new production – Planet Hugill Photos (c) Buxton International Festival

Hathaway—Eight Arias For A Bardic Life is a plaria (play–opera aria) script, written and first performed in 2016 to mark the quatercentenary of William Shakespeare’s death in 1616. Full script available from this link. Synopsis Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare and mother to their three children, sits in the parlour of New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon,…