Daniel Aguirre Evans is an experienced and motivated freelance arts administrator, producer and opera surtitler, working throughout Wales and the wider UK, and open to new freelance opportunities.
Daniel’s skills and experience cover a wide scope of the arts sector including in artistic planning, producing, orchestra management, concert duty, artist liaison and project coordination, and also a more recent specialism in opera surtitles and theatrical captioning work.
Ongoing current surtitle work includes his continued extensive collaboration with Welsh National Opera, providing and operating surtitles for their Autumn 2025 production of Tosca and their Schools Concert including at their base in the WMC and throughout the Autumn tour. He is proud to see this surtitle relationship with WNO now enter it’s 5th year, and is set to continue in Spring 2026 with productions of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and the welcome return of the mining-community tale Blaze of Glory!
Beyond surtitle work, Daniel took up a new role as Festival Administrator for the Gŵyl Beaumaris Festival in October 2025, involving year-round preparations for the 6-day festival leading into May 2026; including artist contracts, venue bookings, funding applications, marketing liaison and general administration for the festival.
Daniel has also spent the Autumn working behind the scenes on a number of new projects launching in 2026. These include the inaugural Cardiff Double Bass Day, a day-long event of workshops, recitals, rehearsals and a performance all centred around the Double Bass on Sunday 25th January 2026.
Spring 2026 will see Daniel launching Sunday Serenades at Insole Court, a new classical chamber music series of regular afternoon concerts featuring some of best established and emerging musicians in Wales from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Welsh National Opera Orchestra and students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
This builds on his longer-term collaboration with the Ceridwen Ensemble, who form part of the first series! And further hones his skills in website building, marketing print design, box office management, social media coordination, and all-round concert logistics and administration.
Finally, Daniel has also been working on plans for other ventures around the discipline of opera, including opportunities for young singers, repetiteurs, and aspiring libretto writers.
The first fruit of this tree hopefully being a one-day conference event coming in Spring / Summer 2026, with a panel of expert opera writer-librettists, directors, composers, conductors and producers to discuss the craft of opera-libretto writing!
This Autumn, also saw Daniel upskilling and going back to school, participating in two substantial training courses as well as a number of smaller refreshers. Firstly, the Creative Bootcamp course rung by Welsh ICE in partnership with the University of South Wales Startup Stiwdio Sefydlu in Treforest – which aims to help creatives and artists launching new start-up ventures and businesses. The second of which is the Theatre Production Management course with ELVTR, run by Sarah O’Connor from the Royal Opera House.
In addition, Daniel has recently renewed his health and safety training, including completing IOSH‘s Creative Industries Safety Passport (Level 2, valid for 3 years) as well as a 3-day First Aid at Work course (also valid for 3 years). Watch this space, for future announcements about which direction these training courses will take Daniel’s freelance work next!
In May this year, Daniel concluded another stint as Acting Artistic Planning Officer within the Artistic Administration team at WNO; having returned to this interim role in Autumn 2024 to temporarily cover a vacancy during a recruitment freeze. This work included the drafting and issuing of the company’s weekly schedule / call sheets, managing room bookings, and piano tunings, and generally coordinating rehearsal and performance activity across the many departments of the organization.
Spring 2025 also saw Daniel make a collaborative return to his work with the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. This work included the preparation of surtitles for their Spring 2025 production of Don Giovanni (Mozart), as well as delivery of a masterclass and subsequent training and mentoring of students to operate for the college’s run of shows at the Sherman Theatre. This followed on from his first collaboration in Spring 2024.
The 2024-2025 season also saw Daniel’s return to the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, on this occasion providing and operating surtitles for Haydn’s The Creation. This following previous surtitle projects for Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust and an opera-in-concert performance of Madam Butterfly in the 2023-2024 season. The next project in this series with the CBSO will be Tosca in June 2026 at Symphony Hall, with a world-class cast including Gwyn Hughes Jones, Bryn Terfel and Natalya Romaniw.
For more information about Daniel’s background, professional experiences and skills please visit the About page or view his LinkedIn profile. If you have a particular project or role in mind, or would like to discuss options of how Daniel’s skills and experience could help your project or organization, please get in touch.
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