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Charles Mackerras

1925 - 2010

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Sir Alan Charles MacLaurin Mackerras (; 17 November 1925 – 14 July 2010) was an 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Mackerras has received more than 161,156 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Charles Mackerras is the 70th most popular conductor (up from 80th in 2019), the 4,665th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,743rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular American Conductor.

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  • 50.01

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among CONDUCTORS

Among conductors, Charles Mackerras ranks 70 out of 97Before him are Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Jean Martinon, Jiří Bělohlávek, Kent Nagano, Michael Gielen, and Armas Järnefelt. After him are Niyazi, Jeffrey Tate, Aleksandr Gauk, Franz Welser-Möst, Paavo Berglund, and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Charles Mackerras ranks 233Before him are Jeanne Crain, Yogi Berra, Marco Cé, Ernst Jandl, Theodore Levitt, and András Kovács. After him are Jonathan Winters, Henning Larsen, M. S. Swaminathan, Carmen Martín Gaite, Konrad Wolf, and Jan Wolkers. Among people deceased in 2010, Charles Mackerras ranks 190Before him are Allan Sandage, Julien Guiomar, Lena Horne, Ed Roberts, Zelda Rubinstein, and Simon MacCorkindale. After him are Laurent Terzieff, Egon Klepsch, Samuel T. Cohen, Jean Rollin, Marcel Domingo, and Mary Daly.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Mackerras ranks 4,665 out of 18,182Before him are Patti LaBelle (1944), Nick Bollettieri (1931), Howard Schultz (1953), The Ultimate Warrior (1959), Bobby Jones (1902), and Richard Belzer (1944). After him are Harold Hotelling (1895), Albert Collins (1932), Lee Friedlander (1934), Clarence Nash (1904), Stephen Krashen (1941), and Jim Reeves (1923).

Among CONDUCTORS In United States

Among conductors born in United States, Charles Mackerras ranks 5Before him are Herbert Blomstedt (1927), John Philip Sousa (1854), James Levine (1943), and Kent Nagano (1951). After him are Dennis Russell Davies (1944), Arthur Fiedler (1894), and Alan Gilbert (1967).