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.
- A new opera, The Adventures of Pinocchio, was commissioned by Opera North and Sadler's Wells Theatre, and premièred at the Grand Theatre Leeds on 21 December, 2007.
Selected works
Operas
- Hastings Spring (community opera) (1990)
- Pig (chamber opera) (1992)
- Flight (1998)
- Tobias and the Angel (church opera), to a libretto by David Lan (1999)
- 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)
- 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
