Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin MackerrasAC, CH, CBE (/məˈkɛrəs/; 17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010)[1][2] was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the English National Opera (and its predecessor) and Welsh National Opera and was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He also specialized in Czech music as a whole, producing many recordings for the Czech label Supraphon.
^Wilson, Ashleigh (15 July 2010). "Symphony mourns death of conductor Charles Mackerras". The Australian. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
^"Sir Charles Mackerras dies". The Daily Telegraph. 15 July 2010. Retrieved 15 July 2010.
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associated with the company have been Colin Davis, Reginald Goodall, CharlesMackerras, Mark Elder and Edward Gardner. The current music director of the...
include: Charles Mackerras AC, CH, CBE (1925–2010), Australian conductor Colin Mackerras AO (born 1939), Australian sinologist Ian Murray Mackerras (1898–1980)...
concert performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by CharlesMackerras and with Birgit Nilsson as the soprano soloist. The first music played...
conducted by, among many others, Sir Thomas Beecham, Charles Dutoit, Herbert von Karajan, Sir CharlesMackerras, Sir Neville Marriner, Pierre Monteux, Sir Georg...
conductor, and twin brother of Professor Colin Mackerras, a leading China specialist. Another brother, Neil Mackerras, was active in the Democratic Labor Party...
Corporation Limited. Handel: Julius Caesar with the English National Opera; CharlesMackerras conducting (Chandos CHAN 3019; recorded 1–7 August 1984; released...
singers conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent in the 1950s and 60s and Sir CharlesMackerras in the 1990s have made audio sets of several Savoy operas, and in...
"Music for the Royal Fireworks" in 1959. This featured the conductor CharlesMackerras who made other recordings on the label, including a Janacek compilation...
des Promeneurs (company) The Sadler's Well Orchestra, conducted by CharlesMackerras made a recording of the music in July 1950 at Abbey Road studios,...
comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir CharlesMackerras. Pineapple Poll is based on "The Bumboat Woman's Story", one of W...
production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, conducted by Sir CharlesMackerras. In 1964 at the Palace Theatre in Sydney, Weaver and a number of other...
Opera House as its home base for most of its concerts. In 1982, Sir CharlesMackerras, a former oboist with the orchestra, became the first Australian to...
Australian classical conductor. He is the nephew of the conductor Sir CharlesMackerras, and both are descended from the composer Isaac Nathan. Alexander...
Retrieved 12 February 2012. Nigel Simeone; John Tyrrell (2015). CharlesMackerras. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 98. ISBN 978-1-84383-966-8. "The Marriner/Philips...
Staatsopernchor & Philharmoniker/CharlesMackerras, recorded 1981 (Decca 417 129-2) Orchestre de Paris/CharlesMackerras, video recorded 1995 (Kultur D4544...
Lindgren. Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus by L. von Beethoven, Sir CharlesMackerras and Scottish Chamber Orchestra (2005). Goethe lieder. Stanislaw Richter...
Elizabeth II, President Hu Jintao, President Horst Köhler, Prince Charles (now Charles III), then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, President Nicolas Sarkozy...
Karajan Carlos Kleiber Otto Klemperer Rafael Kubelík James Levine CharlesMackerras Neville Marriner Zubin Mehta Yevgeny Mravinsky Riccardo Muti Eugene...
his "corpses". The conductor Sir CharlesMackerras believed that the term was invented by Lord Harewood. Both Mackerras and Harewood joined the list of...
Gobbi and Elisabeth Söderström. Among the conductors have been Sir CharlesMackerras, Reginald Goodall, James Levine and Pierre Boulez. The company has...
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