Julian Grant

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Writings

JULIAN GRANT contributes to many musical journals - here is a selection of writings, criticism and interviews

  • Programme Notes – works by Julian Grant
  • Other Writings
  • Articles
  • Opera Reviews by Julian Grant
  • Programme Notes – works by 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

  • Other Writings

    Click HERE for an interview with Composition Today.

    For a blog at the UK Guardian click HERE

  • Articles

    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)

  • Opera Reviews by Julian Grant

    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

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