Lloyd-Jones, David (1934– )

English conductor and editor. He studied at Oxford and with Iain Hamilton. He was guest conductor with the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra from 1963 and conducted opera from 1967, giving the first UK stage performances of Haydn's La fedeltà premiata and Prokofiev's War and Peace. He has made an edition of Boris Godunov which returns to Mussorgsky's full score, and given the opera with Scottish Opera, the English National Opera, and at Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Music director at English National Opera North, Leeds, from 1977, he conducted the first performance of Josephs' Rebecca, in 1983 and gave the UK first performances of Křenek's Jonny spielt auf and Strauss's Daphne (Leeds, 1984 and 1987).