Graham Vick is artistic director of Birmingham Opera Company and works at leading opera houses all over the world with conductors like Muti, Levine, Haitink, Metha, Conlon and Andrew Davis. From 1994 to 2000 he was director of productions at Glyndebourne, where he staged Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Eugen Onegin and Pélleas et Mélisande among other works. Recent productions include Otello and Macbeth (La Scala, Milan), Moses and Aaron, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Metropolitan Opera, New York), The Queen of Spades (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Tannhäuser (San Francisco and Athens), Peter Grimes (Opéra National de Paris), Les Troyens (Munich and Florence), Rigoletto (Madrid), Tamerlano and Idomeneo (Florence), Simon Boccanegra and La clemenza di Tito (Turin), Werther, The Rhinegold, The Valkyrie, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung (Lisbon), The Magic Flute (Salzburg and Moscow), Méphistophélès (Amsterdam), Mitridate, Re di Ponto and Zaide (Mozart Festival La Coruña), Oedipe (Cagliari), Fidelio for Birmingham (recorded by BBC TV), Candide, Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Don Giovanni and La traviata. Forthcoming projects include Die Gezeichneten in Palermo, Aida for the Bregenz Festival and Tristan und Isolde (Deutsche Oper Berlin). He has twice been winner of the Abbiati Prize and received the South Bank Show Award for Opera in 1999. He was recently named Commander of the Order of the British Empire and is honorary professor of music at the University of Birmingham.