John Ramster
John Ramster is a director, teacher and writer. His first novel, Ladies’ Man, was translated into seven languages.
British John Ramster is a director, teacher and writer. He was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, studying Medieval and Renaissance. He has directed over twenty productions for Royal Academy Opera, including Eugene Onegin, L’incoronazione di Poppea and Die Dreigroschenoper.
Outside the British Isles, he has directed Die Zauberflöte for the Turku Festival in Finland, Lucia di Lammermoor in Belgrade and Don Giovanni for Opera Faber in Portugal – to mention a few. Autumn 2019 he was director for The Marriage of Figaro at The Icelandic Opera in Reykjavik.
He is now also teaching and directing at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Associate Head of the Vocal Department.
John Ramster has visited Bergen National Opera as a director four times: After the highly acclaimed new production of The flying Dutchman spring 2018, he directed the chamber version of Carmen on tour the same autumn. And the year before ( 2017) with the prisonopera Paper Bag Princess, as well as "Carmen på låven" (Carmen in the barn) at the summer festival Mimì goes glamping at Åmot Operagard (now: Villa Åmot) in Sunnfjord.
Updated 2018
