Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove (born July 18, 1959) is a British composer of opera and choral works and theatre, film, orchestral and chamber music. He has arranged a number of operas for English Touring Opera and the City of Birmingham Touring Opera (now Birmingham Opera Company), including in 1990 a famous 18-player two-evening adaptation of Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" for CBTO. He was Artistic Director of the Spitalfields Festival from 2001 to 2006.

Recent/current work

*"Airport Scenes", an orchestral suite from the airport-comedy opera "Flight", was premiered by the University of Warwick Symphony Orchestra on March 7, 2006.
*The Enchanted Pig, libretto by Alasdair Middleton, was premièred at the Young Vic, London in December 2006 and toured parts of the UK in early 2006
*The Adventures of Pinocchio, libretto by Alasdair Middleton, was commissioned by Opera North and Sadler's Wells Theatre, and premièred at the Grand Theatre Leeds on 21 December, 2007.
* The London Premier of "Flight" will be performed by British Youth Opera in September 2008

Selected Works

Operas

*"Hastings Spring" (community opera) (1990)
*"Pig" (chamber opera) (1992)
*"Siren Song" (opera) (1994)
*"Flight" (1998)
*"Tobias and the Angel" (church opera), to a libretto by David Lan (1999)
*"The Palace in the Sky" (community opera) (2000)
*"L'altra Euridice" (2002)
*"When She Died... (Death of a Princess)" (television opera, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales) (2002)
*"Man on the Moon" (television opera, about Buzz Aldrin, second man to walk on the moon, and the effects the experience had on him and his marriage) (2006)
*"Hear Our Voice" (community opera) in partnership with Matthew King (2006), libretto by Tertia Sefton-Green. http://www.hmdt.org.uk/inschool_hearourvoice_1.html

Other works

*"The Passing of the Year" (song cycle for double chorus and piano) (2000) 20th-century
*"The Magic Flute Dances" (flute concerto) (2000)
*"Stargazer" (a trombone concerto written for Ian Bousfield)
*"Köthener Messe", for choir and chamber ensemble
*"Out of Winter" (song-cycle)
*"Seek Him that maketh the Seven Stars"
*"His Dark Materials Part I & II" (incidental music) (2003)
*"On Spital Fields" (community cantata) (2005)
*"Hojoki - "An Account of my Hut" (Counter-Tenor and Orchestra)

External links

* [https://www.editionpeters.com/php/artist_details.php?artist=DOVE&section=composer Jonathan Dove page at Edition Peters]