Conductor Jane Glover
Jane Glover, Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque, made her professional debut at the Wexford Festival in 1975, conducting her own edition of Cavalli's L'Eritrea. She joined Glyndebourne in 1979 and was Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 to 1985. 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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Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, the Far East and Australia. Highlights of her concert career include her major South Bank series "Mozart Explored," "Music of Two Decades: the 1780s and the 1980s" and "Mozart to Strauss" with the London Mozart Players; her debut in New York (with Jessye Norman and the Orchestra of St. Luke's); her 1995 performances of Britten's War Requiem at the BBC Proms and in Normandy; and the many concerts where she has premiered new works.
Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, the Far East and Australia. Highlights of her concert career include her major South Bank series "Mozart Explored," "Music of Two Decades: the 1780s and the 1980s" and "Mozart to Strauss" with the London Mozart Players; her debut in New York (with Jessye Norman and the Orchestra of St. Luke's); her 1995 performances of Britten's War Requiem at the BBC Proms and in Normandy; and the many concerts where she has premiered new works.
In demand on the international opera stage, Glover has appeared with numerous companies including the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Australia, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Chicago Opera Theater and Teatro La Fenice. She has conducted all the Mozart operas many times, numerous Handel operas including Giulio Cesare, Alcina, Agrippina, Tamerlano, Ariodante and Theodora, the Monteverdi trilogy (in her own editions) and many other early operas. Other operas include Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice and Iphigenie en Tauride, Fidelio, Barbiere di Siviglia, Cenerentola, Don Pasquale, Hansel und Gretel, Albert Herring, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Turn of the Screw and Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are.
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