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Nicholas Payne joins UK Foundation

Posted on 18 December 2014

Dame Kiri is delighted to announce the appointment of Nicholas Payne as a trustee of the UK Foundation. “I am particularly pleased that Nicholas agreed to accept my invitation – he is a good friend and colleague and I know his vast experience working with opera will be a big plus for the Foundation.”

Nicholas Payne has worked in opera since he joined the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in 1968 for the final two years of the Webster/Solti period. After a spell at the Arts Council of Great Britain during the early 1970s, he worked for four different UK opera companies over 27 consecutive years. At Welsh National Opera in Cardiff, his responsibilities included finance, labour relations, marketing, planning and programmes. He was then appointed General Director of Leeds-based Opera North, a company which he built up over a ten year period. He returned to London as Director of the Royal Opera Covent Garden during the 1990s. He was subsequently appointed General Director of English National Opera at the London Coliseum.

Throughout this time he was concerned with providing opportunities to develop singers, conductors and production teams, as well as being responsible for managing the business.

Since 2003, he has been Director of Opera Europa, for which he has built up services and a membership of 155 opera companies and opera festivals from 37 countries and has established it as the leading professional opera association in Europe. During this time he has established professional contacts throughout the operatic world and has written and broadcast regularly on operatic and general arts subjects.

He has served on the jury for AsLiCo’s competition for young European singers in Como, the Belvedere in Vienna, Neue Stimmen in Germany, the Competizione dell’Opera in Dresden and Moscow, and as chairman of the jury for the Kathleen Ferrier competition in London, the International Festival of Operatic Singers in Tirana, Albania and the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2013.

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