NEW APPOINTMENT FOR GARSINGTON OPERA

• Monday, 07 November 2005

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NEW APPOINTMENT FOR GARSINGTON OPERA
Anthony Whitworth-Jones has been appointed General Director to the annual summer opera festival held at Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire. Garsington Opera will continue - Rosalind Ingrams has become President, her daughter Catherine Ingrams has joined the Board and William Birch Reynardson has been appointed Chairman.

Anthony Whitworth-Jones who, as Artistic Director of Casa da Musica in Porto opened Rem Koolhaas’s acclaimed new concert hall in April 2005, was General Director of Glyndebourne for ten years from 1989 to 1998 and of the Dallas Opera from 2000 to 2002. He will take up his appointment as General Director of Garsington Opera immediately, while retaining a consultancy position for Casa da Musica. He said:

I am, at the same time, deeply sad at the reason for my appointment and delighted to be joining Garsington which, under Leonard Ingrams’ passionate leadership, has established a reputation for musical excellence, the presentation of some fascinating operatic rarities and the promotion of young singers. I will try to uphold and develop this tradition.

There will be a special concert in memory of Garsington Opera’s founder Leonard Ingrams, on Monday 30 January 2006 at Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, London SW1 when excerpts from operas staged at Garsington will be performed by the Company.

Garsington Opera continues its tradition of promoting rare and little known works and in the 2006 season (10 June – 11 July) will stage the re- discovered work Der Stein der Weisen (The Philosophers’ Stone) by Mozart and friends, Rimsky Korsakov’s Mayskaya Noch’ (May Night) and Donizetti’s Don Pasquale.

7 November 2005

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