Edward Downes Edward Downes Sir Edward Thomas ("Ted") Downes, CBE (17 June 1924 – 10 July 2009) was an English conductor, specialising in opera. He was associated with the Royal Opera House from 1952, and with Opera Australia from 1970. He was also well known for his long working relationship with the BBC Philharmonic and for working with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra. Within the field of opera, he was particularly known as a conductor of Verdi. He and his wife, Lady (Joan) Downes, committed assisted suicide at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland on 10 July 2009, an event that received significant media
Icon (Wetton and Downes album) being remixes with orchestrations by Mike Stobbie (indicated by * below) Icon (Wetton and Downes album) Icon is a studio album recorded and released by Asia band members John Wetton and Geoffrey Downes in 2005. It is the first in the "Icon" series (though they previously released the album "Wetton Downes" in 2002, a collection of demos from the 1980s) See also "" (2006). The third Icon album is "Icon 3" (2009). All three were reissued in 2018 by Epicon Records, a vanity label for Icon albums set up by Wetton's estate and Downes. An Icon EP was also released