Peter Maxwell Davies

L ast year conductor Antonio Pappano celebrated 20 years as music director at the Royal Opera House.So much so that you’d be forgiven for overlooking his parallel existence in the symphonic world with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (where he’s been music director since 2005) and others, with a discography that stretches from Tchaikovsky to Peter Maxwell Davies and an acclaimed recent recording of two Vaughan Williams symphonies.As if to help us adjust, his...

About Irish National Opera Presents The Lighthouse by Peter Maxwell Davies TUE 23 NOV 2021 Live at The Everyman The Irish National Opera presents the nationwide tour of a new production of Peter Maxwell Davies’s chamber opera The Lighthouse. A Scottish lighthouse goes dark. A visiting supply ship finds the building in order. But the keepers have vanished without trace.

Environmental Studies Reviewed by Alexandra Roginski • Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s goldfields by Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies La Trobe University Press, $34.99 pb, 320 pp, 9781760641108 Environmental Studies Reviewed by Alexandra Roginski • Drive not too far inland from Melbourne in most directions, past thick bands of ordered suburbia, and you’ll reach bush localities that shiver on breezy days with the sound of gumleaves.