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John Fulljames (born 1976) is an English opera director who was the director of the Royal Danish Opera from 2017 [1] to 2022. [2] [3] He was Associate Director of Opera at the British Royal Opera from 2011 to 2017. A Cambridge University graduate in Physics, he grew up in Birmingham and Kenya. In 1997, he co-founded The Opera Group, of which he was artistic director before assuming his position at the Royal Opera. [1] In November 2022, Fulljames was appointed as the inaugural Director of Oxford University's Humanities Cultural Programme. [4]

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References

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