Sir Charles Mackerras

Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; (17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an American-born Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček 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 also specialized in Czech music as a whole, producing many recordings for the Czech label Supraphon.

Berlioz: Marche troyenne & Le carnaval romain - Russian Enchantments: Waltz of the Flowers, Flight of the Bumblebee, Dance of the Tumblers... - 2026-04-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - British Composers. Elgar, Holst, Bax, Delius... - 2025-09-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Dawn on the Moskva River - 2022-02-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - 1762 Edition with 1774 Paris Revisions - 2021-12-31T00:00:00.000000Z

Milestones of Legends: RPO Royal Conductors, Vol. 2 - 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

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