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About the Author
DONALD STURROCK WAS BORN in 1961 and grew up in England and South America. After reading Modern History at Oxford University, he joined BBC Television’s Music and Arts Department, where he worked as both producer and director between 1983 and 1992. Since then his award-winning work as writer and director has included The Graham Greene Trilogy and Plácido Domingo’s Tales at the Opera, both for BBC Television; also The Art of Singing and The Art of Piano, as well as An Awfully Big Adventure and Little Red Riding Hood (with Danny DeVito and Julie Walters). He has written librettos for five operas and directed the world premiere in Los Angeles of Tobias Picker’s opera based on Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Mr. Fox. He lives in London.
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