Raymond Gubbay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Raymond Gubbay

British music promoter

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1946

Place of Birth: London

Profession: impresario, music promoter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Raymond Gubbay

  • Raymond Jonathan Gubbay, CBE (born 2 April 1946) is a impresario who has been at the forefront of promoting and producing opera, ballet and classical music in London, across the UK and around the world for over 50 years.
  • He has worked with some of the most prestigious classical artists of our time including Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Joseph Calleja, Rolando Villazon, Yehudi Menuhin, James Galway, Henry Mancini, Victor Borge and Kiri te Kanawa; in dance, he has co-produced seasons by New York City Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, Carlos Acosta, Sylvie Guillem, Bejart Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and American Ballet Theatre.During a near thirty-year partnership with the Royal Albert Hall, he staged arena scale productions of La bohème, Tosca, Carmen, Aida and Madam Butterfly, plus Romeo and Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake, in partnership with English National Ballet.
  • His hugely popular Christmas concerts have become an annual tradition in recent years although since he sold his company, the organisation of the Royal Albert Hall Christmas Festival has reverted to the Hall.
  • Having quickly decided that he did not relish retirement, he is now collaborating with West End producer, Edward Snape, on a joint venture and future plans include a three-week season by Barry Humphries with Meow Meow at the Barbican Theatre in July and a Christmas Season of Circus 1903 at the Royal Festival Hall Raymond Gubbay is an Honorary Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
  • He was awarded a CBE in June 2001.
  • He lives in London and France.

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