December 31, 2020 at 9:11 am
Conductor Jane Glover has been made a dame in the 2021 New Year’s Honours for services to music, alongside the Birmingham Opera Company’s founder and artistic director Graham Vick, who has been knighted.
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Glover is one of the UK’s leading conductors and musicologists, having previously held the role of music director of both the London Mozart Players and Glyndebourne Touring Opera. In 2013, she became the third woman ever to conduct at the New York’s Metropolitan Opera, in a production of Mozart’s
The Magic Flute. Earlier this year, she was
female conductors to the stage. As a music professor and educator, she has previously held positions as director of opera at the Royal Academy of Music and visiting professor of opera at the University of Oxford. She has been a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) since the 2003 New Year’s Honours.
Sky Arts to broadcast new documentary going behind the scenes at Glyndebourne during lockdown
Sky Arts to broadcast new documentary going behind the scenes at Glyndebourne during lockdown Glyndebourne: No Ordinary Summer will highlight the opera company s struggles to return to live performance after UK theatres, opera houses and concert halls were forced to close in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic
December 15, 2020 at 1:15 pm
Glyndebourne will be the focus of a new documentary broadcast on Sky Arts later this month, telling the story of how it overcame the pressures of lockdown to open up again this summer, becoming the first UK opera house to stage a full-length opera to a live audience since the start of the pandemic.