"The audience’s enthusiastic response to Glover’s warm and skillful direction on the podium was like that of a rock star. Indeed, in the classical music world, she is a star."
Cincinnati Business Courier, January 2024
Professor Dame Jane Glover, DBE, MA, DPhil, FRCM, HonRAM
British conductor Jane Glover, named Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’s Honours, has been Music of the Baroque’s music director since 2002, and has just begun her tenure as Principal Guest Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony.
This season Jane celebrates her 50th anniversary in the profession: her debut was at the Wexford Festival in 1975, when she conducted 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. From 2009 until 2016 she was Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, where she is now the Felix Mendelssohn Visiting Professor. She was recently Visiting Professor of Opera at the University of Oxford, her alma mater.
Jane Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. In recent seasons she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the San Francisco, Houston, St. Louis, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Kansas City and Toronto symphony orchestras, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Montreal’s Orchestre Metropolitain, the Bamberg Symphony, the Bremen Symphony, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the Salzburg Camerata. She has worked with the period-instrument orchestras Philharmonia Baroque and the Handel & Haydn Society. She has also made frequent appearances at the BBC Proms.
In demand on the international opera stage, Jane Glover has appeared with numerous companies including the Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera, Covent Garden; English National Opera; Glyndebourne; the Berlin Staatsoper; Glimmerglass Opera; New York City Opera; Opera National de Bordeaux; Opera Australia; Chicago Opera Theater; Opera National du Rhin; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Teatro Real, Madrid; Royal Danish Opera; Teatro La Fenice; and Detroit Opera. A Mozart specialist, she has conducted all the Mozart operas all over the world regularly since she first performed them at Glyndebourne in the 1980s, and her core operatic repertoire also includes Monteverdi, Handel, and Britten. Highlights of recent seasons include The Magic Flute with the Metropolitan Opera; Alcina with Washington Opera; L’Elisir d’amore, The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni for Houston Grand Opera; Medea for Opera Omaha; Così fan tutte for Lyric Opera of Kansas City; The Turn of the Screw, Jephtha, and Lucio Silla in Bordeaux; The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Giovanni at the Aspen Music Festival; Gluck’s Armide and Iphigenie en Aulide with Met Young Artists and Juilliard; Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) in Lisbon; Albert Herring and Leonora (Paer) with Chicago Opera Theater; and Xerxes with Detroit Opera. The many operas she conducted while Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music include Eugene Onegin, The Rake’s Progress, The Marriage of Figaro, L’incoronazione di Poppea, and the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen!
Future engagements include debuts with the Detroit Symphony, and the Orchestra of the 18rth Century; and her returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, and the Chicago Symphony.
Jane Glover’s discography includes a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies with the London Mozart Players and various recordings with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, Trinity Church (Wall Street), and the BBC Singers. She is the author of the critically acclaimed books Mozart’s Women, Handel in London, and Mozart in Italy. She holds a personal professorship at the University of London, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music, an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, and the holder of several honorary degrees. In 2020, she was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Gamechanger Award for her work in breaking new ground for other female conductors.
September 2025