Sir Reginald Goodall

(b Lincoln, 13 July 1901; d Bridge, Kent, 5 May 1990). English conductor. He studied at the RCM and joined Sadler's Wells Opera in 1944, conducting the première of Britten's Peter Grimes in 1945. He joined Covent Garden the following year but opportunities were limited; full recognition came in 1968, with his spacious, refulgent, grandly unified performances of Die Meistersinger at Sadler's Wells. At the London Coliseum he conducted the Ring (1973) and Parsifal (1986) and with the Welsh National Opera Tristan und Isolde (1979).