Choreographer

Adam Haigh

Norma

Biography

Adam is a London-based choreographer. This is his first production with Irish National Opera. His previous work in opera and music-theatre includes: Ushers, The Front of House Musical (The Other Palace); Oh, What a Lovely War! (UK Tour); Kiss Me Kate (Leicester Curve); Soho Cinders (Charing Cross Theatre); Grease (Italy); Chess by Björn Ulvaeus, Danny Strong, and Tim Rice (Leicester Curve, Broadway World Nomination for Best Choreography); UK Premiere of Brooklyn the Musical (Greenwich Theatre); Wizard of Oz (New Lincoln Theatre Royal); Cole Porter’s Anything Goes (The Other Palace); Can Can! (Nominated for Best Off West End Choreographer 2018); Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki (Shenandoah Conservatory, USA); Massenet’s Le roi de Lahore (Dorset Opera, Nominated for Best Rediscovered Work at the International Opera Awards 2023); Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado (Theatre Royal Bath/ UK Tour); Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore (Wilton’s Music Hall); Eledeline Lee Collection 2023 (London Fashion Week); Jingle Bell Christmas (Barbican); Treasure Island (Middle East Tour); Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera in Concert (Sir John Loveridge Hall, Guernsey); Romeo & Juliet (Palketto Stage, European Tour); Rogers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific (Guernsey); Transforming Minds (Park Theatre); Some Enchanted Evening, A Night of Musicals (UK Tour); Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar (Folketeateret, Norway); and Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal College of Music Opera Studio).

May 2026