Max Mason

Max is a recent Cambridge University graduate, where he was elected a Senior Scholar in 2024. As a College Choral Scholar, he was involved in performing new commissions as a part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, and a recital of Duruflé’s Requiem at the Duomo di Milano. After a short acting career, playing in the London debut of Friel’s Fathers and Sons at the Donmar Warehouse, he has since moved into opera. In Cambridge, recent directorial credits include Semele, The Magic Flute, and (in his own original translation) Orpheus in the Underworld. His original operetta—an adaptation of Christina Rossetti’s Goblin Market—was performed at Trinity College, Cambridge in 2023. His remarks on rehearsing Handel’s Saul in Cambridge is forthcoming in publication in Opera Quarterly, edited by James Garrett.

Max is delighted to be making his professional directing debut here at Waterperry.