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An Interview with David Parry

David Parry studied at Cambridge University and the Royal Academy of Music, London. He went on to study conducting with Sergiu Celibidache and began his career as a repetiteur at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, later becoming Chorus Master for the Touring Opera and assisting Sir John Pritchard both at Glyndebourne and at Belgian National Opera. He made his operatic debut with La Cenerentola for the English Music Theatre. He was on the conducting staff of the Dortmund City Opera, and then joined the newly-founded Opera North as a resident conductor. In 1983 he was appointed Music Director of Opera 80, a post he held until 1987, when he left to develop a freelance career.