Cecilia Stinton

Cecilia Stinton is the artistic director of Spectra Ensemble. She initially trained as a violinist at the Junior Royal Academy of Music and holds degrees in Music and History of Art from the University of Oxford. In 2022, she earned her AHRC-funded PhD in History of Art from University College London with the thesis ‘Opera as Multimedia: The Experiments of Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova and Kurt Schwitters, 1908-1928’. Recent engagements include Opera Scenes (Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), La traviata (Oxford Opera), Suor Angelica (Saluzzo Opera Festival), Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park) and Ethel Smyth’s The Boatswain’s Mate (Spectra Ensemble). She has worked as staff director at English National Opera and ROH, and has assisted at Garsington Opera, Berlin Opera Academy and British Youth Opera. Future engagements
include directing The Barber of Seville for Opera Holland Park in 2024. She previously worked as Public Engagement Curator at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, where she staged LiveFridays.