Anthony Whitworth-Jones (born 1 September 1945) is an opera manager.

Early life

Anthony Whitworth-Jones was born on 1 September 1945 in

Gerrards Cross Gerrards Cross is a town and civil parish in south Buckinghamshire, England, separated from the London Borough of Hillingdon at Harefield by Denham, south of Chalfont St Peter and north bordering villages of Fulmer, Hedgerley, Iver Heath and ...

, Buckinghamshire, U.K. He is the son of Henry Whitworth-Jones and Patience Martin.

Career

Whitworth-Jones became a chartered accountant. Whitworth-Jones worked with the

Glyndebourne Glyndebourne () is an English country house, the site of an opera house that, since 1934, has been the venue for the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera. The house, located near Lewes in East Sussex, England, is thought to be about six hun ...

opera during the 1980s and 1990s and served as its General Director for ten years from 1989 until 1998, during which time the new opera house was built, designed by Michael Hopkins and Partners, opening in 1994. He was the General Director of the

Dallas Opera The Dallas Opera is an American opera company located in Dallas, Texas. The company performs at the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House, one venue of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. History The company was founded in 1957 as the Dallas Civi ...

from 2000 to 2002,involved in the commissioning of a new theatre for the opera company, designed by the Norman Foster practice, and the

Garsington Opera Garsington Opera is an annual summer opera festival founded in 1989 by Leonard Ingrams. The Philharmonia Orchestra and The English Concert are its two resident orchestras. For 21 years it was held in the gardens of Ingrams's home at Garsingto ...

from 2005 until 2012, moving the company from its original home in Garsington village to the Wormsley Estate, Buckinghamshire, where he oversaw the commissioning of its new opera house, designed by Robin Snell Associates which opened in 2011. In 2004 - 2005 he was artistic director of Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal, opening its renowned new concert hall, designed by Rem Koolhaas, in 2005. He has served on the board of the

English National Opera English National Opera (ENO) is an opera company based in London, resident at the London Coliseum in St Martin's Lane. It is one of the two principal opera companies in London, along with The Royal Opera. ENO's productions are sung in English ...

since 2012.

Personal life

In 1974, he married Camilla (née Barlow); daughter of

Erasmus Darwin Barlow Erasmus Darwin Barlow, FRCPsych, Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, FZS (15 April 1915 – 2 August 2005) was a British psychiatrist, physiologist and businessman. Born in London in 1915, he was the second son of Sir Alan Barlow, son of S ...

(and a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist

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). They have one daughter, Eleanor Gwen Whitworth-Jones (born 1975); he also has two stepchildren (Luke and Amy) from her first marriage to Martin C. Mitcheson.

References

* ‘WHITWORTH-JONES, Anthony’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 201
accessed 26 May 2011
1945 births Living people People from Buckinghamshire Opera managers {{opera-bio-stub