Alan John 3698490 220546181 2008-06-20T11:30:11Z 121.210.83.146 '''Alan John''' (born [[May 7]] [[1958]] in [[Sydney]]) is an [[Australia]]n [[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 (musical)|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 (opera)|Through the Looking Glass]]'', to a libretto by [[Andrew Upton]], world-premiered at the [[Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne]], in the [[Victorian Opera (Melbourne)|Victorian Opera]]<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.victorianopera.com.au |title = Victorian Opera |accessdate = 2007-10-14 |year = 2007}}</ref> production conducted by [[Richard Gill (conductor)|Richard Gill]].<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.malthousetheatre.com.au/whatson/looking.html |title = Through the Looking Glass |accessdate = 2008-05-11 |year = 2008 |publisher = Malthouse Theatre}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23655298-16947,00.html |title = Alice at the Opera |accessdate = 2008-05-10 |date = {{Date|2008-05-10}} |publisher = [[The Australian]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2008/05/15/1210765055247.html |title = Here's looking at you, kid |accessdate = 2008-05-16 |date = {{Date|2008-05-16}} |publisher = [[The Age]]}}</ref> ==References== <references/> ==External links== {{Imdb|0424125}} {{DEFAULTSORT:John, Alan}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Australian composers]] [[Category:21st century classical composers]] [[Category:Opera composers]] {{composer-stub}}