Jonathan Dove

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Jonathan Dove (born July 18, 1959 in London ) is a British composer.

Life

Dove, son of an architect couple, studied composition with Robin Holloway in Cambridge. After graduating, he worked as a song accompanist, repetitor, animator and arranger. In Glyndebourne , where he had assisted in an opera project, he received his first composition commission. From 2001 to 2006 he was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival.

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Dove's catalog of works includes more than 20 operas, choral works, instrumental and orchestral music as well as incidental music for the National Theater in London, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the New York Shakespeare Festival.

The airport comedy Flight , composed in 1998, premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival and gave Dove his breakthrough. Two operas written especially for television reached an audience of millions: When She Died… (2002) is about the reactions to the death of Princess Diana (born Diana Spencer ), and Man on the Moon (2006) is about Buzz Aldrin , the second human on the moon. Two commissioned works for Opera North in Leeds / Yorkshire have also reached German opera audiences: The Adventures of Pinocchio, based on the children's book by Carlo Collodi , premiered in Leeds at Christmas 2007, the German premiere under the title Pinocchio's Adventure took place in 2008 at the Chemnitz Opera House . Swanhunter , a fantasy short opera based on motifs from the Finnish Kalevala epic, had its world premiere in the same houses in 2009 and its German premiere in 2011.

Dove is particularly committed to cultural work at the local level. With “community operas” like The Palace in the Sky (2000) he brings people of different origins and backgrounds together to create a musical project together.

Dove was also commissioned to write compositions for public celebrations. His music accompanied the millennium celebrations at the Millennium Dome in London and, in June 2000, the opening of Millennium Bridge (London) , which crosses the Thames between St Paul's Cathedral and the Tate Gallery of Modern Art .

Works (selection)

Operas

Swanhunter , a chamber opera from 2009, here at the Linbury Studio Theater des ROHs , April 2015
  • Hastings Spring (Community Opera, 1990)
  • Pig (Chamber Opera, 1992)
  • Siren Song (1994)
  • Flight (1998)
  • Tobias and the Angel (church opera, libretto: David Lan)
  • The Palace in the Sky (Community Opera, 2000)
  • L'altra Euridice (2002)
  • When She Died… (Death of a Princess) (TV opera on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Princess Diana's death, 2002)
  • Man on the Moon (TV Opera, 2006)
  • Hear Our Voice (community opera in collaboration with Matthew King, libretto by Tertia Sefton-Green, 2006)
  • The Enchanted Pig (Libretto by Alasdair Middleton, 2007)
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio (Libretto by Alasdair Middleton, 2007)
  • Swanhunter (Libretto by Alasdair Middleton, 2009)
  • Mansfield Park (chamber opera based on the novel by Jane Austen , 2011)
  • Life is a Dream (opera based on the verse drama Life is a dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca , libretto by Alasdair Middleton, 2012)
  • The Monster in the Maze (opera based on the Minotaur saga, 2014)
  • Marx in London (A Comedy, Libretto by Charles Hart, 2018)

Other works

  • The Passing of the Year (song cycle for two choirs and piano, 2000)
  • The Magic Flute Dances (Flute Concerto, 2000)
  • His Dark Materials Part I & II (2003)
  • On Spital Fields (Community Cantata, 2005)
  • Airport Scenes (orchestral suite with musical motifs from the opera Flight, 2006)
  • Missa Brevis (2009)

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personal data
SURNAME Dove, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH London