Antony Peattie
{{short description|British music writer}}
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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.{{cite web|url=https://unbound.com/authors/antony-peattie |title=Antony Peattie |publisher=Unbound |access-date=9 March 2017}}
Personal life
For around 25 years, Peattie lived with the artist Sir Howard Hodgkin{{cite web|author=Lucy Davies |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/howard-hodgkin-in-the-studio/ |title=Howard Hodgkin interview: 'The older I get, the more I am afraid of this great void coming up' |website=Telegraph.co.uk |access-date=9 March 2017}}{{cite news|author=Christina Patterson |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/interviews/howard-hodgkin-i-want-to-set-things-straight-1379925.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/interviews/howard-hodgkin-i-want-to-set-things-straight-1379925.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Howard Hodgkin: 'I want to set things straight' |newspaper=The Independent |date=16 January 2009 |access-date=9 March 2017}}{{cite news|author=Stuart Jeffries |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/may/21/howard-hodgkin-interview-painting |title=Remembrance of things past | Art and design |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=9 March 2017}} until Hodgkin's death in March 2017. They lived in a four-storey Georgian house in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum.{{cite news|author=Ria Higgins |url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/article1467837.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317105014/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/Magazine/article1467837.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 March 2015 |title=A Life in the Day: Sir Howard Hodgkin, artist |newspaper=The Sunday Times |date=12 October 2014 |access-date=9 March 2017}}
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}}