Roger Granville

Roger Granville is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of the New Generation Foundation and Mascarade Opera in Florence, which he established with Francis Parham and Max Fane. Roger has led international theatre productions at the Young Vic Theatre, The Prithvi Theatre in Mumbai and Shakespeare’s Globe, with whom he co-produced a project in 2012 to encourage the revival of the performing arts in Afghanistan, culminating in an Afghan touring production of Shakespeare’s 'Comedy of Errors'. Other producing credits include Oliver Dench’s 'One-Man Hamlet' at the Théâtre National de Nice, 'Waiting for Godot' at the Arcola Theatre, and 'Much Ado About Nothing' at the Rose Theatre Kingston. For the New Generation Festival, he directed Donizetti’s 'L’Elisir d’amore' and Mozart’s 'Don Giovanni', as well as assisting with the direction of 'The Three Divas', co-produced with the 23Arts Initiative at the Boboli Gardens in Florence. He has directed Sir Tom Stoppard’s 'The Invention of Love' at the Oxford Playhouse and worked as an assistant director at both St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Alongside his co-founders, Roger was appointed Honorary Ambassador of the City of Florence and was honoured with the city’s Silver Florin decoration. He was educated at Eton College followed by Christ Church college at the University of Oxford where he took a First in Middle Eastern Studies and Modern Languages (M.A. Oxon).