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1925–2010 Australian conductor Mackerras began his career as an oboist in Australia before coming to Europe to study conducting. In Prague he became interested in Czech music, particularly Janáček, whose operas he championed through definitive recordings and performing editions. He was music director of Sadler’s Wells (later English National) Opera 1970–77, Welsh National Opera 1987–92, and later ...

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Ilia. Everyone rejoices, with the exception of Electra, and Idomeneus gives a farewell speech to the jubilant people of Crete. Recommended Recording: Idomeneo, Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Charles Mackerras, conductor; EMI Classics 5 57260 2; Soloists: Lisa Milne (Ilia), Barbara Frittoli (Elettra), Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Idamante), Ian Bostridge (Idomeneo), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Arbace) Personalities | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

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pressure from friends and colleagues, but he also insisted on making changes to the orchestration. Kovarovic’s revised Jenůfa became the accepted version until the 1980s, when Sir Charles Mackerras recorded Janáček’s opera in its original form. The raw naturalism of the text and the declamatory sounds of the Czech language produced violent, sometimes shocking effects that contributed to ...

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have made him one of the most popular and successful of twentieth-century opera composers. Recommended Recording: Kátya Kabanová, soloists, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna PO (cond) Sir Charles Mackerras (Decca) Leoš Janáček: Works Operas: Sárka (1888); The Beginning of a Romance (1891); Jenůfa (1903); Fate (1905); The Excursions of Mr Brouček (1917); Kátya Kabanová (1921); The Cunning Little Vixen ...

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Cunning Little Vixen (1923) and The Makropulos Affair (1925). He died while still finishing From the House of the Dead (1928). Since Janáček’s death, the scholarship of Sir Charles Mackerras and John Tyrrell has produced definitive editions from numerous versions of the composer’s original scores. First Significant Opera The impetus for Janáček to write his first significant opera, Jenůfa ...

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Philharmonic 2002–09 and the Munich Philharmonic 2011–14. His opera 1984 (based on Orwell’s novel) was premiered at Covent Garden in 2005. Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | (Sir) Charles Mackerras | Contemporary | Classical ...

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The twentieth century was replete with the names of composers hailing from every part of the western world, each boasting their own personal style. The conductor Sir Charles Mackerras was studying in Czechoslovakia in 1947 when he first heard Janáček’s music being played in rehearsal. Mackerras was immediately drawn to the music, as well as to the challenge of ...