Culture: Paws for Thought ; Julian Phillips Talks to Terry Grimley About Varjak Paw, His Opera for Families and Kids
Birmingham Post › October 30, 2008
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Julian Philips was staying in a palazzo in Umbria last week when he called me via his laptop to talk about his new family opera, Varjak Paw.
He was the guest of the Civitella Ranieri foundation, an American cultural charity set up by multi-millionairess Ursula Corning,which offers the inspiring equivalent of aweekend hideaway for creative artists.See the full content of this document
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Culture: Paws for Thought ; Julian Phillips Talks to Terry Grimley About Varjak Paw, His Opera for Families and Kids
"Quite a lot of British composers have been here - Jonathan Dove, Richard Causton, Thomas Ades," he said. "I'm trying to finish an opera for Glyndebourne and planning another piece for them for 2010 which is a sort of community opera."
Philips, who was born in Cardiff in 1969 but moved to Warwickshire at the age ...See the full content of this document
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