"The invigorating fizz that Jane Glover has brought to Music of the Baroque since arriving as music director in 2002 shows little sign of abating."
Chicago Sun-Times
Recently named artistic director of opera at London’s Royal Academy of Music, acclaimed British conductor Jane Glover has been Music of the Baroque’s music director since 2002. She made her professional début 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 Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 until 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.
Jane Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the US, Asia, and Australia. Highlights of her concert career include her major South Bank series “Mozart Explored,” “Music of Two Decades: The 1780s and 1980s” and “Mozart to Strauss” with the London Mozart Players; her débuts in New York (with Jessye Norman and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s) and Vienna (with Imogen Cooper and the Sinfonia Varsovia); 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, Ms. Glover has appeared with numerous companies including English National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Berlin Staatsoper, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera Theatre St. Louis, and Teatro La Fenice. Among other works, she has conducted all the major Mozart operas; numerous Handel operas including Giulio Cesare, Agrippina, Tamerlano, La Resurrezione, Theodora, and Ariodante; the Monteverdi trilogy; and many other early operas. She has also conducted Fidelio, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Albert Herring, The Turn of the Screw, Don Pasquale, Cenerentola, The Secret Marriage, Hansel and Gretel, and Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Iphigénie en Tauride. She also collaborates closely with the Mark Morris Dance Group.
In addition to her appearances with Music of the Baroque, highlights of 2009–10 include Jeptha at Opéra National de Bordeaux; Messiah in New York City with Trinity Choir; Mozart Dances with the Mark Morris Dance Group in Boston and L’Allegro with Mark Morris at English National Opera and in Birmingham; Cavalli’s Giasone at the Royal Academy of Music; and concerts with many orchestras including the Toronto Symphony and Handel and Haydn Society. Last season’s engagements included The Turn of the Screw in Bordeaux, Semele at Milwaukee Opera Threatre, La Clemenza di Tito at Chicago Opera Theater, and The Rape of Lucretia at the Aspen Music Festival, as well as concerts with the London Mozart Players and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.
Jane Glover’s many recordings feature a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies for ASV and arias with Felicity Lott, all with the London Mozart Players, plus other recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Strauss, Britten, and Walton with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, and the BBC Singers. Her extensive broadcasting career includes the TV series “Orchestra and Mozart,” and the radio series “Opera House” and “Musical Dynasties” (all for the BBC). Her most recent book, Mozart’s Women, is published in the US by HarperCollins.
Jane Glover studied at St. Hugh's College, Oxford, where, after graduation, she did her D.Phil on seventeenth-century Venetian opera. She was created a Commander of the British Empire in the 2003 New Year's Honors.
