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Anthony Legge studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Oxford University and the London Opera Centre. He studied accompanying with Geoffrey Parsons and Paul Hamburger. He has given numerous recitals with, amongst others, Dame Janet Baker, Sir Thomas Allen, Gwynne Howell and Håkan Hagegård. He has recorded two CD's with Chandos accompanying Linda Finnie.
He has worked regularly with the principal British opera companies, Opera Australia, many European opera companies and at Bayreuth where he assisted on the Kupfer-Barenboim Ring Cycle for five years and the new production of Die Meistersinger. For 14 years he was Head of Music at English National Opera (ENO) where he conducted Dido and Aeneas, Orpheus and Eurydice, Lulu and Alcina. He is now Head of Royal Academy Opera and Music Advisor to ENO. His book The Art of Auditioning was recently reissued by Peters Edition.
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