Jane Glover

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Jane Glover (born May 13, 1949 in Helmsley , Yorkshire) is a British conductor and musicologist who specializes in baroque music (especially baroque opera) and Mozart.

Life

Glover met Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears in her youth as the daughter of the head of Monmouth School in Monmouthshire, Wales , and Britten became a role model for them. She studied at Oxford (St. Hugh's College), where she received her doctorate in baroque opera in 1975 ( The Teatro Sant 'Apollinare and the Development of Seventeenth-Century Venetian Opera ) and performed the opera Athalia by Handel as a student . Her biography of Francesco Cavalli (1978) emerged from her doctorate . In 1975 she made her debut as a conductor at the Wexford Festival with Cavalli's "L´Eritrea". From 1979 she was engaged at the Glyndebourne Festival , whose touring opera she directed from 1981 to 1985. From 1984 to 1991 she was artistic director of the London Mozart Players and conducted various BBC productions in the 1980s. Since 2002 she has directed the "Musique of the Baroque" ensemble in Chicago. She has also conducted, for example, at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), the Berlin State Opera , English National Opera , Teatro La Fenice , New York City Opera , the Royal Danish Opera . Since the 1980s in Glyndebourne, she has devoted herself primarily to Mozart operas. But she also continues to conduct baroque operas by, for example, Monteverdi, Purcell and Handel, and others. a. Operas by Rossini, Puccini, Gluck. She also conducts concerts on a regular basis. a. Britten's War Requiem at the Proms. She was also the director of the Huddersfield Choral Society.

From 2003 she is Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music and holds multiple honorary doctorates. She has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2011 .

Fonts

  • Cavalli. = Francesco Cavalli. Palgrave Macmillan, London 1978, ISBN 0-312-12546-1 .
  • Mozart's Woman. His family, his friends, his music. MacMillan, London 2005, ISBN 1-4050-2121-7 .
  • Trading in London: The Making of a Genius . London: MacMillan, 2018

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personal data
SURNAME Glover, Jane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English conductor and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmsley , Yorkshire