Jane Glover

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

Glover met in their youth as the daughter of the Head of School Monmouth in Monmouthshire, Wales, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, Britten and became for them a model. She studied at Oxford ( St Hugh 's College ), where she obtained a doctorate in 1975 on the baroque opera (The Teatro San Apollinare and the Development of Seventeenth - Century Venetian Opera) and even the opera by Handel Athalia aufführte as a student. For her doctoral her biography of Francesco Cavalli (1978 ) was born. In 1975, she made ​​her debut as a conductor at the Wexford Festival with Cavalli's " L' Eritrea ". In 1979 she was engaged at the Glyndebourne Festival, whose Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985 she headed musically. 1984 to 1991 she was Artistic Director of the London Mozart Players and conducted in the 1980s, various BBC productions. Since 2002 she runs the " Musique of the Baroque" Ensemble in Chicago. They also conducted, for example, 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, at Glyndebourne it is especially devoted to Mozart operas. But you will also conduct still Baroque operas, for example, by Monteverdi, Purcell and Handel, and, inter alia, the operas of Rossini, Puccini, Gluck. They also conduct regular concerts, including Britten's War Requiem at the Proms. She was also director of the Huddersfield Choral Society.

From 2003 she is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE). She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music and multiple honorary doctor.

Writings

• Cavalli. = Francesco Cavalli. Palgrave Macmillan, London 1978, ISBN 0-312-12546-1.