Julian Grant

Programme notes for selected works by Julian Grant

STRIKE OPPONENT’S EARS WITH BOTH FISTS

GREAT GAME

TOURNAMENT OF SHADOWS

HEX 

OFF COURSE

MOONSTONE SONGS

Click HERE for an interview with Composition Today.

For a blog at the UK Guardian click HERE

ZANDONAI IN CONTEXT. The last professional Italian Opera Composer. A programme essay for a production of Zandonai’s FRANCESCA DA RIMINI at HOLLAND PARK OPERA in 2010

A VELVET REVOLUTION. An Introduction to DEBUSSY’s  only completed opera Pelléas et Mélisande for HOLLAND PARK OPERA 2010 season

ART? ENTERTAINMENT? WHAT ABOUT CRAFT? An article on the 21st century opera problem, and the workshopping of new operas. (Opera magazine 60th anniversary issue, FEBRUARY 2010)

REVEALING TCHAIKOVSKY. An essay, published as an introduction for the programme booklet for the Revealing Tchaikovsky Festival curated by Vladimir Jurowski at London’s South Bank Centre in November 2008. 

IOLANTA – TCHAIKOVSKY’S THEATRICAL SWAN-SONG. A programme note for a concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s last opera at the Revealing Tchaikovsky Festival, November 2008

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)

ARRIETA: La conquista di Granata CD review

CHALIAPIN THE ENCHANTER Documentary film review

CILEA: Adriana Lecouvreur  Two DVD reviews

DESHEVOV: Ice and Steel  DVD review

DMITRI CHERNIAKOV directs MUSSORGSKY and TCHAIKOVSKY DVD reviews

DUKAS: Ariane et Barbe Bleue CD review and live review from Bastille Opera (2007)

FRANCHETTI: Germania DVD review

GALUPPI: L’olimpiade DVD review

GIORDANO: Fedora DVD review

GIORDANO and MASCAGNI: Two operas CD reviews

GLINKA and TCHAIKOVSKY: Two operas DVD reviews

HONEGGER: Jeanne d’Arc au bucher DVD review

MACONCHY: Two operas CD review

MESSIAEN: St Francois d’Assise  Proms 2008

MUSSORGSKY: Khovanshchina DVD review

POULENC Dialogues des Carmelites DVD review

PROKOFIEV Love for Three Oranges DVD review

PUCCINI Manon Lescaut DVD review

RENEE FLEMING – Verismo CD review

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Golden Cockerel CD review

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Kashchey the Immortal Proms 2008

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: The Tale of Tsar Saltan Mariinsky Opera at Sadler’s Wells October 2008

ROSSINI Il viaggio a Reims DVD review

SCHUBERT Alfonso und Estrella DVD review

SCHUBERT Fierrabras DVD review

SHOSTAKOVICH Cherry Town DVD review

SHOSTAKOVICH and PROKOFIEV Operas DVD reviews

TCHAIKOVSKY Eugene Onegin DVD review

WOLF-FERRARI: La vedova scaltra CD review

ZANDONAI: Francesca da Rimini Two DVD reviews