Richard Fawkes is a writer, director, and producer who specializes in classical music. He is a regular contributor to Opera Now,
Classical Music magazine, and The
Singer, and has contributed to the BBC Music
Magazine, Gramophone, the Daily
Telegraph, She, the Sunday Telegraph,
the Sunday Times, and the Independent, mostly on music and the arts.
He is the author of several books, including Opera on Film, Welsh National Opera, Notes from a Low Singer, Fighting for a Laugh, and The Last Corner of
Arabia, among others. His audio productions, The History of Classical Music
and The History of Opera, won Talkie Awards.
Kim Criswell is one of the most exciting performers of our time. Her stage appearances include the original casts of Nine, Baby, The First, Stardust, and The Threepenny Opera on Broadway; Opera Pacific’s Kismet and Cats in Los Angeles; and Annie Get Your Gun, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Dames at Sea, and The Slow Drag in the West End. She has worked with numerous leading conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle, Richard Hickox, Marin Alsop, Leonard Slatkin, John McGlinn, and her regular partners Wayne Marshall and John Wilson with whom she appears in recital, concerts, and festivals all over the world.