Career
Trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He recently directed the French premiere of Stephen Sondheim"s Sunday in the Park with George at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, following successful productions of A Little Night Music (2010 - starring Leslie Caron, Greta Scacchi and Lambert Wilson) and Sweeney Todd (2011). Later this year, he directs his third opera for the Santa Fe Opera Festival, The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein, starring Susan Graham in the title role.
He returns to the Chatelet in 2014 to direct his fourth Sondheim production - Into the Woods.
He will also direct The King and I in the same season. Lee received a Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship in 2007.
This took him to many of the major Opera houses of North America to study Lyric Artist Development and the Cultivation of Philanthropy for Opera. He lives with his partner and two cats in London.