Adrian Mourby

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Adrian Mourby is an international opera correspondent and opera producer. A graduate of the University of Wales, Lampeter, he was a producer at the BBC for twelve years, where, amongst other series, he produced a television adaptation of Sir Kingsley Amis' The Old Devils. For these productions, he won numerous national and international awards [which ones?], before turning to full-time writing and broadcasting. He has published numerous novels, including We Think the World of Him (1996) The Four of Us (1997)and Wishdaughter(2004). He wrote the 1994 BBC Radio 4 series Whatever Happened to ..? about the further adventures of various fictional characters for which he won the Sony Silver Award for Creative Writing on Radio. In 1997, his book "Whatever Happened to ...?: The Ultimate Sequels Book" was published with more such tales. He is a programme essayist working in the UK and his own opera productions include Semele (Malta 2002) Cosi fan tutte (Oxford 2004) Marriage of Figaro (Blewbury Festival 2006). He is also the creator and writer of Tristan and Matilda, a long-running comic strip in Opera Now magazine.