Alan John
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Alan John (born May 7, 1958 in Sydney) is an Australian composer. He studied music at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1980. His compositions include original music for various plays, films (such as Three Dollars and The Bank) and TV series (including Love My Way), and the musical theatre works Jonah Jones, Orlando Rourke, and the musical Snugglepot and Cuddlepie for the Sydney Festival 2007 at the Theatre Royal.
His opera, The Eighth Wonder, had its World Premiere when produced by Opera Australia in 1995 and was revived in 2000, during the Sydney Olympics Arts Festival. In May 2008, his chamber-opera Through the Looking Glass, to a libretto by Andrew Upton, world-premiered at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, in the Victorian Opera[1] production conducted by Richard Gill.[2][3][4]
He has four children, Peter, Hannah, Vincent and Francis.
[edit] References
- ^ Victorian Opera (2007). Retrieved on 2007-10-14.
- ^ Through the Looking Glass. Malthouse Theatre (2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-11.
- ^ Alice at the Opera. The Australian (10 May 2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-10.
- ^ Here's looking at you, kid. The Age (16 May 2008). Retrieved on 2008-05-16.
[edit] External links
Alan John at the Internet Movie Database
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