Joan Ingpen

Joan Mary Eileen Ingpen (née Williams; 3 January 1916 – 29 December 2007) was a classical music and opera talent manager and agent. Ingpen is credited with launching the career of opera singer Luciano Pavarotti. She also served as the former artistic administrator of the Royal Opera House in London. However, she continued to work, this time with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as a vocal consultant, until her retirement from that institution in 1987.

Death Joan Ingpen died at her hometown of Hove, England, on 29 December 2007, after a short illness. She was 91 years old. She had been married twice and had no children. In Brighton, she lived with her partner, actor Sebastian Shaw, who predeceased her.