David Lloyd-Jones

David Lloyd-Jones (born 19 November 1934) is a British conductor. He is also an editor and translator, especially of Russian operas.

[edit] Early career

Lloyd-Jones was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and made his professional conducting debut in 1961 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He worked briefly as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera House before joining the New Opera Company, where he worked from 1961 to 1964.

In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at Sadlers Wells Opera (now English National Opera), where he conducted a wide repertory which included the first British staging of War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev.

Lloyd-Jones became the first Music Director of Opera North in 1977, where he conducted over fifty productions. Highlights of his career there included the first British performance of Krenek's Jonny spielt auf and the British stage première of Richard Strauss's Daphne. Other notable Opera North productions which he conducted included Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet, Borodin's Prince Igor, Berlioz's Les Troyens, Richard Jones's staging of The Love for Three Oranges, a double-bill coupling (as at their first performances) of Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and The Nutcracker - the latter choreographed by Matthew Bourne of Adventures in Motion Pictures - and the world première of Wilfred Josephs's Rebecca.

He stepped down from the position of Music Director in 1990.

In 2007, Lloyd-Jones was awarded honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society.

Warrack, John, and Ewan West (1992). The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-869164-5.
Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993) ISBN 0 859 67 894 6

Preceded by none	Music Director, Opera North 1977-1990	Succeeded by Paul Daniel

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