Welsh Stage Director Dafydd Hall Williams is the current Artistic Director of cross-border producing company Ulster Touring Opera. Dafydd trained at the Oxford School of Drama before attaining a BA and MA at Aberystwyth University. Dafydd has worked at leading opera institutions internationally, staging operas in the UK, Ireland and China. Dafydd is passionate about developing the dramatic skills of future opera singers, and has directed at the Royal College of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Opera directing credits include L'elisir d'amore (Shanghai Opera House), Il barbiere di Siviglia (Ulster Touring Opera), Il Tabarro, Tosca (Wexford Festival Opera), The Hidden Valley (Tête à Tête Festival).