I run one of London's great orchestras — the London Philharmonic, founded in 1932. It has been a concert and opera orchestra from its very beginning: our first conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, was also music director of the Royal Opera House and pre-war there was not an Opera House Orchestra as there is today. For the past 55 years the LPO has been the resident orchestra of Glyndebourne Opera Summer Festival.
