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Antony Peattie

Antony Peattie

British music writer

Antony Peattie is a British music writer. He co-edited the 1997 revision of The New Kobbé's Opera Book, with Lord Harewood.

Career

Peattie was publications editor at Welsh National Opera, before leaving to help launch Opera Now magazine, and then going freelance, creating Opera Bites for Glyndebourne, surtitles for Scottish Opera and supertitles for the Royal Opera.[1]

Personal life

For around 25 years, Peattie lived with the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin[2][3][4] until Hodgkin's death in March 2017. They lived in a four-storey Georgian house in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum.[5]

Selected publications

  • The Private Life of Lord Byron
  • The New Kobbé's Opera Book, (1997 revision), edited with Lord Harewood, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 0091814103

References

  1. [1]
    "Antony Peattie". Unbound. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. [2]
    Lucy Davies. "Howard Hodgkin interview: 'The older I get, the more I am afraid of this great void coming up'". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  3. [3]
    Christina Patterson (16 January 2009). "Howard Hodgkin: 'I want to set things straight'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  4. [4]
    Stuart Jeffries. "Remembrance of things past | Art and design". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  5. [5]
    Ria Higgins (12 October 2014). "A Life in the Day: Sir Howard Hodgkin, artist". The Sunday Times. Archived from the original on 17 March 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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