Charles Mackerras Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Sir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE (/m??k?r?s/; 17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janá?ek and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. He was long associated with the English National Opera (and its predecessor) and Welsh National Opera and was the first Australian chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
He had the honor of conducting the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the opening night of the iconic Sydney Opera House in 1973.
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Orchestra conductor and oboist.
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Won two Grammys for best opera recording: 1981 for Leos Janácek's "House of the Dead" and 2007 for Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel and Gretel".
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His Australian father was working in the USA for the General Electric Company when he was born. The family returned to Australia when he was age 2.
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After emigrating to Britain in 1947, he received a British Council scholarship to study with the Czech conductor Vaclav Talich in Prague, where he conceived his love for Czech music - and in particular, Leos Janácek.
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He was awarded the AC Companion of the Order of Australia in the 1997 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to music. He was also awarded the Czech Republic's Medal of Merit (1996) and honorary doctorates from several universities.
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Born to Australian parents and raised there.
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He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1974 Queen's New Years Honours List before being awarded Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1979 Queen's New Years Honours, and awarded the CH (Companion of Honour) in the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to music.
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Don Giovanni
2008
TV Movie conductor
Mozart in Turkey
2000
Documentary conductor - as Sir Charles Mackerras
Great Arias: The Cunning Little Vixen
1995
TV Short conductor
The Cunning Little Vixen
1995
TV Movie conductor - as Sir Charles Mackerras
Roméo et Juliette
1994
TV Movie conductor
Xerxes
1988
TV Movie conductor / edition by
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
1988
TV Movie conductor
Nutcracker
1986
conductor - as Sir Charles Mackerras
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985
TV Movie conductor - as Sir Charles Mackerras / musical director - as Sir Charles Mackerras
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
1984/I
TV Movie conductor
Julius Caesar
1984
TV Movie conductor
Mary Stuart
1982
TV Movie conductor
Jenufa
1981
TV Movie conductor
Pineapple Poll
1979
TV Movie music arranger
Faust
1975
TV Movie conductor
Trial by Jury
1974
TV Movie conductor
Music on 2
1971
TV Series conductor - 1 episode
Zar und Zimmermann
1970
TV Movie conductor
Billy Budd
1966
TV Movie conductor
Gala Performance
1964
TV Series conductor - 3 episodes
Armchair Theatre
1961
TV Series conductor - 1 episode
Shadow Creek : Down in the Valley
1961
TV Short conductor
Pagliacci
1960
TV Movie conductor
The Turn of the Screw
1959
TV Movie conductor
Pineapple Poll
1959
TV Movie music arranged and conducted by
The Spur of the Moment
1959
TV Movie conductor
The Lady and the Fool
1959
TV Movie music arranged and conducted by
Theatre Night
1957
TV Series orchestrations - 1 episode
The Queen in Australia
1954
Documentary conductor
Faust
1952
TV Movie conductor
El amor brujo
1952
TV Short conductor
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
TV Series conductor - 2 episodes, 1951 - 1952 musical associate - 1 episode, 1950
Pagliacci
1949
TV Movie répétiteur / score preparation
Namatjira the Painter
1947
Short music
The Fighting Rats of Tobruk
1944
musical associate
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Now You See Me 2
2016
performer: "O Mio Babbino Caro - Gianni Schicchi" - as Sir Charles Mackerras
Beyond the Reach
2014
performer: "Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in E-Flat Major, K. 482: III. Allegro" - as Sir Charles Mackerras
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
2013
Documentary performer: "The Nutcracker, Op. 71a, Pas de Deux, Dance of the Prince and the Sugar-Plum Fairy" composed by nm0006318
Quixote's Island
2011
performer: "Ouverture"
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
performer: "Serenade No. 6 In D Major, K. 239 III Rondo Allegretto"
Z mrtvého domu - From the House of the Dead
2008
TV Movie "Z mrtvého domu, Opera in three acts"
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
2005
performer: "'Israel in Egypt' Part I 'Exodus' No 8, Chorus 'He sent a Thick Darkness'"
Mozart in Turkey
2000
Documentary performer: "Die Enführung aus dem Serail, Singspiel in three acts" - as Sir Charles Mackerras
Harmoniques
1998
TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Xerxes
1988
TV Movie performer: "Xerxes Serse, opera in Three acts"
Nutcracker
1986
performer: "The Nutcracker"
The Atomic Cafe
1982
Documentary performer: "Pictures at an Exhibition"
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Queen in Australia
1954
Documentary
Namatjira the Painter
1947
Short
Watch Over Japan
1947
Short
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Arias: The Cunning Little Vixen
1995
TV Short
Conductor
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
BBC Proms
2009
TV Series
Himself
Don Giovanni
2008
TV Movie
Himself - Conductor
Great Composers
1997
TV Series documentary
Conductor
Known for movies
Now You See Me 2 (2016) as Soundtrack
Xerxes (1988) as Music Department
Nutcracker (1986) as Music Department
God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985) as Music Department
$1.5 Million
