Anthony Whitworth-Jones

Anthony Whitworth-Jones (born 1 September 1945) was the General Director of the Garsington Opera from 2005 until 2012. He also worked with the Glyndebourne opera during the 1980s and 1990s and was General Director for ten years from 1989 until 1998. During his tenure with each company a new opera house was built, at Glyndebourne designed by architect Michael Hopkins and at Garsington by architect Robin Snell who had worked on the Glyndebourne project earlier. Both projects won eight architectural awards, including the RIBA Award.

He is the son of Henry Whitworth-Jones and Patience Martin. In 1974, he married Camilla (née Barlow); daughter of Erasmus Darwin Barlow (and a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin). They have one daughter, Eleanor Gwen Whitworth-Jones (born 1975); he also has two stepchildren from her first marriage to Martin C. Mitcheson.

References

• Christiansen, Rupert (May 31, 2007). Where opera soars in harmony with nature, The Daily Telegraph, .
• ‘WHITWORTH-JONES, Anthony’, Who's Who 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2010 ; online edn, Oct 2010 accessed 26 May 2011