John Paul Jennings

American conductor John Paul Jennings has quickly emerged onto the scene as a young conductor of note. He is Music Director of the Suffolk Youth Orchestra, and Assistant Artistic Director of Regents Opera, where he has led performances in critically acclaimed productions of Strauss’s Die Ägyptische Helena and Verdi’s La forza del destino. He received great praise for performances of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle with Green Opera for the Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival in 2022, with critics describing it as “a searingly incisive orchestral tableau” (britishtheatre.com). In June 2023, he conducted a new production of Bizet’s Carmen with St Paul’s Opera, and his Czech debut came as assistant and second conductor of a new production of Bluebeard’s Castle at the Moravské Divadlo in Olomouc.