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.

Janáček: Věc Makropulos, JW I/10 & Zápisník zmizelého, JW V/12 (Sung in English) [Live] - 2025-11-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Havergal Brian: Symphonies Nos. 29, 30, 31, 32 - 2025-02-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Tchaikovsky's Winter Ballets - 2024-11-09T00:00:00.000000Z

Charles Mackerras conducts Schumann: Symphony No. 3 (Live) - 2024-03-29T00:00:00.000000Z

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

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