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Anthony Whitworth-Jones (born 1 September 1945) is an opera manager.
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Early life
Anthony Whitworth-Jones was born on 1 September 1945 in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, U.K.. He is the son of Henry Whitworth-Jones and Patience Martin.
Career
Whitworth-Jones became a chartered accountant.
Whitworth-Jones worked with the Glyndebourne opera during the 1980s and 1990s and served as its General Director for ten years from 1989 until 1998. He was the General Director of the Dallas Opera from 2000 to 2002, and the Garsington Opera from 2005 until 2012. He has served on the board of the English National Opera since 2012.
Personal life
In 1974, he married Camilla (née Barlow); daughter of Erasmus Darwin Barlow (and a great-great-granddaughter of the naturalist Charles Darwin). They have one daughter, Eleanor Gwen Whitworth-Jones (born 1975); he also has two stepchildren from her first marriage to Martin C. Mitcheson.