Alan John

Alan John (born 7 May 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 [cite web
url = http://www.victorianopera.com.au
title = Victorian Opera
accessdate = 2007-10-14
year = 2007] production conducted by Richard Gill. [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] [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] [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]

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