Conductor Andrew Davis, music director emeritus of Lyric Opera, dies at 80

Sir Andrew Davis, the widely beloved music director and principal conductor of Lyric Opera of Chicago for some 21 years and one of the great operatic figures of his generation, died Saturday of leukemia, with the Lyric announcing his death Sunday morning. Davis was 80 years old and had been living in a retirement community in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Davis’s interpretations of the music of Mozart and Richard Strauss were among his most admired endeavors at Lyric, but then that is a long list. Davis was born in the British county of Hertfordshire in 1944 and studied at the Royal College of Music and King’s College, Cambridge. His career spanned innumerable companies and orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra , Glyndebourne Festival Opera , the Toronto Symphony Orchestra as well as Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, among many others. He became Lyric’s music director and principal conductor in 2000.

“We will miss his incredible artistry, his extraordinary wisdom, his irrepressible humor, his unfettered zest for life, and his devotion to the arts and the humanities. We have all been incredibly fortunate to have had Sir Andrew as a constant inspiration for so many years,” said Anthony Freud, Lyric’s general director, in a statement., Davis’s successor at Lyric, said that Davis was “a remarkable music director and conductor.

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