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)