Julian Grant

Programme notes for selected works by Julian Grant

STRIKE OPPONENT’S EARS WITH BOTH FISTS  HERE

GREAT GAME  HERE

TOURNAMENT OF SHADOWS HERE

HEX HERE

OFF COURSE HERE

MOONSTONE SONGS HERE

Click HERE for an interview with Composition Today.

For a blog at the UK Guardian click HERE

BEIJING: THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE NATIONAL
CENTRE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: Plus a review of the inaugural
production of Puccini’s Turandot (Opera magazine, JUNE 2008)

THOROUGHLY MODERN TCHAIKOVSKY: An essay, comprising an
interview with Glyndebourne Music Director Vladimir Jurowski, on
Eugene Onegin for the 2008 Glyndebourne programme

A VERY COOL COMPOSER: A reassessment of Rimsky-Korsakov’s
operas in his centenary year (Opera magazine, JANUARY 2008)

IF I CAME BACK as the Moor of Khalifat (Opera magazine, JULY 2007)

A SPECIAL ALCHEMY  Julian Grant revisits Montemezzi’s greatest
operatic hit (Opera magazine, JULY 2007)

SPINNING A NEW YARN – Knitting the Odyssey (Opera magazine,
OCTOBER 2006)

A COMPULSIVE NARRATOR - Julian Grant on the operas of Judith
Weir (Opera magazine, JUNE 2006)

DOOMED LOVERS – Rachmaninov’s Francesca da Rimini (for Opera
North programme EIGHT LITTLE GREATS, 2004)