In recent seasons she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the San Francisco, Houston, St.
Jane Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. She was recently Visiting Professor of Opera at the University of Oxford, her alma mater. From 2009 until 2016 she was Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music where she is now the Felix Mendelssohn Visiting Professor. She was artistic director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991, and has also held principal conductorships of both the Huddersfield and the London Choral Societies.
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She made her professional debut at the Wexford Festival in 1975, conducting her own edition of Cavalli’s LʼEritrea. She joined Glyndebourne in 1979 and was music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 until 1985. His national theatre directing credits include nearly every major theater across the country including: the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Arena Stage, The Goodman, Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House, Hartford Stage, Second Stage, The Guthrie, Indiana Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Huntington Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, Playmakers Rep, City Theatre, Virginia Stage, and the Old Globe.Īcclaimed British conductor Jane Glover, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’s Honours, has been Music of the Baroque’s music director since 2002. At schools and conservatories: directed productions and/or held artistic residencies master classes at NYU, Juilliard, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia, Tulane, Indiana/ Bloomington, and Kansas/ Lawrence. His opera Blue is rescheduled for future productions at Washington National Opera, Chicago Lyric, Minnesota Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Seattle Opera, English National Opera, and Mostly Mozart Festival. He is commissioned by chic Opera Theater to write a new opera and Seattle Opera to write a song cycle. A select list of operas directed: Dialogues of the Carmelites, Death in Venice, Xerxes, Carmen, Don Giovanni, The Tender Land, Street Scene, Pearl Fishers, Norma, Margaret Garner, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Patience, Freedom Ride. He was chosen to rewrite the libretto and direct the American premiere staging of Aaron Copland’s The Second Hurricane as part of a New York State-wide celebration of Copland’s 85th birthday. He holds the record for directing three productions: Appomattox/ Philip Glass, Lost in the Stars/ Kurt Weill, and his American premiere production from Glimmerglass Festival of Cato in Utica/ Vivaldi, all in the same season in three different theaters at The Kennedy Center. His production of Porgy and Bess, broadcast Live from Lincoln Center, received EMMY Award nominations for Best Director, and Best Production: Classical Music. He has play commissions from Lincoln Center Theatre, South Coast Rep and People’s Light & Theatre Company.
His a cappella musical Jubilee: Fisk Jubilee Singers had its world premiere spring of 2019 and played to extended performances and SRO audiences at Arena Stage. His award-winning play, Constant Star has had 16 national productions, garnering 9 Barrymore Awards, 5 NAACP Awards and 3 Carbonell Awards Mary T & Lizzy K, commissioned and produced at Arena Stage, is the recipient of The Edgerton Foundation New American Play Award adaptor of the revue, Jam & Spice: The Music of Kurt Weill an adaptation of A Christmas Carol and a contributing writer to Our War, short plays for Washington DC. He has opera commissions from the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Opera Theater. He has more than 150 directing credits, including 30 world and American premieres, in major opera houses and theaters across the USA, France, Spain, Italy, Africa, Japan and Canada, including New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, Washington National Opera, Teatro Real, La Scala, L’Opera Bastille in select cities: Cape Town, Paris, Tokyo, Milan, Madrid, Osaka, Vancouver, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Norfolk, Washington DC, New Orleans, and San Francisco. The New York Times and Washington Post listed Blue as Best in Classical Music for 2019. His opera Blue with composer Jeanine Tesori, won the 2020 MCANNA Award for Best New Opera in North America. Tazewell Thompson is an internationally acclaimed director of opera and theater, an award-winning librettist and playwright, teacher, lecturer and actor.
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