Charles Osborne

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Charles Thomas Osborne ( November 24, 1927 in Brisbane - September 23, 2017 ) was an Australian writer and music critic who lived in the United Kingdom since 1953.

biography

Osborne studied music in Brisbane and Melbourne and then worked as a journalist in the fields of music and literature. In 1953 he moved to England, where he worked from 1958 to 1966 as an editorial assistant for London Magazine . From 1971 to 1986 he was literary director of the Arts Council of Great Britain .

Charles Osborne first became known as an authority on opera . He wrote the works The Complete Operas of Verdi (1969) and Wagner and His World (1977) , among others .

In the field of fiction he was best known in crime fiction . He reworked a number of Agatha Christie's stage plays into novels, including Black Coffee (1997) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). He also wrote the book Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (1982). In 1956 he was also an actor in the play Black Coffee . In the 1990s he asked Agatha Christie Limited , who manages the rights to the works of Agatha Christie, to revise the stage play Black Coffee into a detective novel .

He died on September 23, 2017.

bibliography

  • The Complete Operas of Verdi (1969)
  • Wagner and His World (1977)
  • The Complete Operas of Mozart (1988)
  • Verdi: A Life in the Theater (1989)
  • The Complete Operas of Richard Strauss (1991)
  • WH Auden : The Life of a Poet
  • Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie (1982)
  • The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini (1994)
  • Black Coffee (1997)
  • The Unexpected Guest (1999)
  • Spider's Web (2001)
  • Ned Kelly (1970)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barry Millington, Charles Osborne obituary , in: The Guardian , October 18, 2017, accessed October 19, 2017
  2. ↑ Charles Osborne, actor, poet, critic and biographer - obituary , The Telegraph (13 October 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Osborne, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osborne, Charles Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Brisbane , Australia
DATE OF DEATH 23 September 2017