Raymond Leppard obituary

Conductor whose vivid realisations of operas by Monteverdi and Cavalli brought them new audiencesThe conductor and harpsichordist Raymond Leppard, who has died aged 92, did much to attract audiences to Italian baroque opera. Captivated by the dramatic potential and emotive power of the stage works of Claudio Monteverdi and dismayed by the unavailability of suitable performing editions, he persuaded Glyndebourne, the opera house in East Sussex, to present Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione