Ian Judge first joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1975. His productions there include The Wizard of Oz, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol, The Relapse, Troilus and Cressida and The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Other credits include The Rivals and King Lear at the Old Vic; Banana Ridge, One For The Pot and Peter Pan at the Shaw Festival in Canada; Macbeth for the Sydney Theatre Company; and Henry VIII and Love for Love for Chichester Festival Theatre. Opera repertoire includes Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Le Nozze di Figaro and Roméo et Juliette (Los Angeles); Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Sydney, Houston, Opera Pacific); Faust, The Merry Widow, Cav/Pag, La Belle Vivette, Don Quixote, Mefistofele (English National Opera) also at the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires; Der fliegende Holländer, Simon Boccanegra in both the 1857 and 1881 versions (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Simon Boccanegra (Washington, Dallas); Macbeth (Cologne) and Faust, Tosca, Macbeth, Boris Godunov, Acis and Galatea and Attila (Opera North); Norma (Scottish Opera, Bühnen Graz); La Bohème (Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg); The Mikado (Savoy Theatre); Salome (New York City Opera); and Falstaff (Theatre du Châtelet, Paris). His work in musicals includes Merrily We Roll Along (Bloomsbury Theatre); The Swan Down Gloves and The Wizard of Oz (Royal Shakespeare Company); Oh Kay! (Chichester Festival Theatre); Bitter Sweet (Sadler's Wells and UK tour); A Little Night Music (Piccadilly Theatre, London); Show Boat (London Palladium and UK tour); and West Side Story (Australia and New Zealand). Recent work includes Roméo et Juliette in Chicago; Tosca, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Carlo and Tannhäuser at LA Opera; and the first production in nearly 50 years of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love at the English National Opera. He recently directed a new production of Der fliegende Holländer for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. In 2009 he made his debut at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto with Simon Boccanegra ("Dora" Award nomination for Best Opera Production) and staged Tannhäuser at the Teatro Real in Madrid and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Britten Theatre in London.

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