Later she directed several opera and concert films for a Munich production company before taking the post of director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in London.

By then Sir Jeremy had left television to become general director of the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.

Fortunio premiered just a few months after Messager left his post as director of the Royal Opera House in London.

He was a director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1962-1970.

In 1925 he became director of the Hungarian Royal Opera House, the youngest director since Gustav Mahler.

Sir John Tooley (born 1 June 1924) is a former general director of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.

He was the founder and Governing Director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and was also a director of the Royal Opera House in London.

He was a director of the Royal Opera House and from 1980 to 1984 was the board chairman of the National Portrait Gallery.

Eatwell is the former chair of the British Library, a director of the Royal Opera House and the economic advisor to the Chartered Management Institute.

He was also executive director of the Royal Opera House in London before joining the Kennedy Center in February 2001.