He has led most of the world's major orchestras, won Oscars for his movie music, written for Broadway and concert and opera halls, and has been knighted by the Queen of England.

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The venue, which was opened by the Queen in November 2004, is the home of Welsh National Opera, and hosts regular musicals, ballets and music and comedy events, while there is also a studio theatre.

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That thoughtfulness is in evidence not just through their patronage of the arts (he is chairman of the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute and serves on the board at the Metropolitan Opera and at Carnegie Hall, and she is a trustee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), but also in their generosity with their friends.

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