Stuart Murphy

Stuart Neil Luke Murphy (born 6 November 1971 in Leeds) was the Chief Executive of the English National Opera (2018–2023). He was educated at St Mary's School, Menston and Clare College, Cambridge.

From 2012 to 2015, he was Director, Entertainment Channels at Sky overseeing Sky 1, Sky Living, Sky Arts and the launch of Sky Atlantic. Sky won its first Emmy Awards and Oscar nominations as well as BAFTAs, British Comedy Awards and Royal Television Society Awards during this period. Murphy also had responsibility for Sky Arts, which as well as a channel is an on-demand library of arts and cultural content in Europe.

In 2003 Murphy launched BBC Three and commissioned Little Britain, Gavin and Stacey and Flashmob The Opera. Before BBC Three, he was Channel Controller of BBC Choice, and previously he ran UK Play, a music and comedy channel co-owned by BBC Worldwide.

Previously a board member of the A&E Networks International, and Silicon Valley–based Jaunt Virtual Reality Company. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Television Society in 2016.

Under Stuart Murphy, the ENO broadened the appeal of opera and mixed the age, ethnicity, and social background of ENO's audience by introducing radical ticketing schemes by offering free tickets for under-21s and subsidised tickets for under-35s (ENO being the only opera company in the world to offer such a scheme).

As a teenager, he played clarinet for the Leeds Youth Orchestra and Leeds Youth Opera. Provided by Wikipedia