John Paul Jones (musician) Foo Fighters on the Grammy Awards conducting the orchestral part to the song "The Pretender". On 7 June 2008, Jones and Jimmy Page appeared with the Foo Fighters to close out the band's concert at Wembley Stadium. Jones performed with Sonic Youth and Takehisa Kosugi, providing the stage music for Merce Cunningham's "Nearly 90", which ran 16–19 April 2009 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In February and March 2011 he appeared in the onstage band in Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera "Anna Nicole", about the "Playboy" model Anna Nicole Smith, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London. In August
John Berry (arts administrator) audiences through an affordable ticketing structure. • To encourage arts organisations to work together and share resources to create original work. • In August 2017 Opera Ventures will premiere its first new production, the iconic opera, Greek, by Mark Anthony-Turnage CBE. • This fully funded production will be co-produced with Scottish Opera, in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Festival, and will tour to Glasgow and to other opera houses and festivals around the world. • Michelle Wright is the CEO for Opera Ventures, Loretta Tomasi OBE is the Executive Producer and Sally Groves MBE is the Chair. • Opera Venture's