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ROH Celebrates �10m Donation???

Date: 18 November 2003

Feeling generous? You'd have to have very deep pockets to match the generosity exhibited by Anglo-South African property tycoon Donald Gordon who this weekend donated �20 million to the arts, to be split equally between the Royal Opera House and the Cardiff-based Wales Millennium Centre, which is due to open in November 2004. It's believed that Gordon's pay-out is the single biggest private donation made to the arts in this country since 1985 when the late John Paul Getty gifted �50 million to the National Gallery. The businessman, who's ranked 51st in the Sunday Times rich list and has an estimated fortune of �560 million, says he'd been only "vaguely interested" in the arts before he moved to the UK four years ago. Evidently, he's now a convert.

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