Brian Dickie -- Appointed General Director of Chicago Opera Theater in 1999, he produced 20 Chicago premieres including such favorites as Orfeo, Death in Venice, Nixon in China, and this past season's Jason. In 2011 he will mark his 21st and 22nd Chicago premieres with the Midwest premiere of Tod Machover's Death and the Powers and a new production of Charpentier's Medea. He began his opera career with Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1962. He was Artistic Director of the Wexford Festival from 1967 to 1973. From 1981-1988 he was General Administrator of Glyndebourne Festival Opera.