Sally Burgess has sung Carmen at the English National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, Bastille, the Bavarian State Opera, Munich, the Bregenz Festival and in Zurich, Berlin, New Zealand and Portland. Her Azucena was heard with English Opera North, and her Amneris there was also performed for Scottish Opera and in Strasbourg, Nancy, Lausanne and Wiesbaden. With a series of other outstanding operatic successes throughout Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera, she has enjoyed equal success on the concert platform where she has performed with all the leading British orchestras. She performs regularly with her own jazz trio led by her husband Neal Thornton and has presented her own one woman show Sally Burgess’ Women at the Lyric Hammersmith and Sophisticated Ladies at the Purcell Room. She made her directorial début in London in Mark Glentworth’s new opera Ula, closely followed by a new production of Così fan tutte for English Chamber Opera, her directorial début for a complete opera. In August of 2010 she directed the world première of Sonya’s Story in collaboration with composer Neal Thornton and designer Charles Phu to tremendous critical acclaim.