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.
A new opera, The Adventures of Pinocchio, has been commissioned by Opera North, and will be 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)
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