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EARLY CAREER Lloyd-Jones was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and made his professional conducting debut in 1961 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra . He worked briefly as a Répétiteur at the Royal Opera House before joining the New Opera Company, where he worked from 1961 to 1964. SADLERS WELLS OPERA/ENGLISH NATIONAL OPERA In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at Sadlers Wells Opera (now English National Opera ), where he conducted a wide Repertory which included the first British staging of War And Peace by Sergei Prokofiev . OPERA NORTH Lloyd-Jones became the first Music Director of Opera North in 1977, where he conducted over fifty productions. Highlights of his career there included the first British performance of Krenek 's Jonny Spielt Auf and the British stage première of Richard Strauss 's Daphne . Other notable Opera North productions which he conducted included Delius 's A Village Romeo And Juliet , Borodin 's Prince Igor , Berlioz 's Les Troyens , Richard Jones 's staging of The Love For Three Oranges , a double-bill coupling (as at their first performances) of Tchaikovsky 's Iolanta and The Nutcracker - the latter choreographed by Matthew Bourne of Adventures In Motion Pictures - and the world première of Wilfred Josephs 's ''Rebecca''. He stepped down from the position of Music Director in 1990. AWARDS In 2007, Lloyd-Jones was awarded honorary membership of the Royal Philharmonic Society . REFERENCES
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