John Ramster

For 24 years, John Ramster of the UK has been a drama teacher for opera singers at all the major music colleges in London.

He currently works at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has previously worked with opera singers at the Birmingham Conservatoire, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Northern College of Music, Casa da Música in Porto, and the South Denmark Music Conservatory.

John is a director, educator, and author; he has published the novel *Ladoes’ Man*, which has been translated into seven languages, and a book on acting for opera singers. He is currently working on a historical murder mystery set in Handel’s London.

He is an honorary fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, where he has directed over twenty productions. Outside the UK, his work includes *The Magic Flute* in Turku, Finland; *Lucia di Lammermoor* in Belgrade; *Don Giovanni* for Opera Faber in Portugal; *The Marriage of Figaro* for Íslenska óperan in Reykjavik; and *The Flying Dutchman* at the Bergen National Opera.

He graduated from Cambridge University, where he studied history. His directing career began at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield under Clare Venables, before he went on to direct more than twenty productions at the Glyndebourne Festival.