Anthony Russell-Roberts

Anthony de Villeneuve Russell-Roberts CBE (25 March 1944 – 14 January 2024) was a British businessman and opera manager.

After graduation, having decided that he was unlikely to succeed in his preferred career as a professional painter, Russell-Roberts became a general management trainee at the brewers Watney Mann (1965–68).

From 1977 until 1980, he was assistant to the general director of the Royal Opera House, and from 1981 until 1983 he was artistic administrator of Opéra National de Paris.

In the 2004 New Year Honours, Russell-Roberts was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire "for services to dance".

He had a stepson, Ingo Ferruzzi, and two daughters, Tabitha and Juliet from his previous marriage to Anne Dunhill.