Sir John Pritchard (1921-1989) was an English conductor, important in British opera and concert life. He worked with Glyndebourne, Covent Garden, the BBC and major international orchestras.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears in Tippett’s King Priam and in Edinburgh Festival repertory by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Nono and Debussy.

Pritchard’s conducting was clear, theatrical and musically disciplined, well suited to opera and modern repertory where structure must keep drama airborne.

His page is essential for the British opera strand. Pritchard brings clean lines, theatre sense and a modern-music nerve to the index.