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Ian Burton is a British dramatist and writer who has created librettos for various operas, ballets, musicals and plays. He has worked with Robert Carsen and other directors and has been awarded several prizes for his productions.
Jan 23, 2024 · Ian Burton is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and a pioneer in climate change adaptation research and policy. He received the Order of Canada in 2023 and advocates for more collaborative and proactive action to reduce the impacts of climate change.
About. Ian Burton has research interests and technical expertise in risk assessment of natural and technological hazards, water resources and supply, climate change impacts and adaptation, and environment and development. Trained in geography (PhD Chicago 1962) he works now primarily in the interface between research, science, and policy, and ...
Chambers UK, 2022. “Ian Burton is probably the best white-collar criminal solicitor in London,” enthuses a leading barrister adding: “He is the doyen of financial crime.”. The Legal 500, 2021. “Ian Burton has a huge and well-deserved reputation as the leading figure for high-profile criminal representation.
Ian Burton is a writer and dramaturg. He wrote the libretto for Giorgio Battistelli’s opera Richard III, which was voted by Opera News as the best new opera of the decade 2000-2010. He also wrote a libretto for a new opera by Philippe Fenelon about J.J. Rousseau entitled J.J.R. Citoyen de Geneve , which was performed in Geneva in 2012.
Ian Burton is a senior partner and founder of BCL Solicitors. Having worked on most of the significant business crime investigations and prosecutions brought by the UK authorities over the last 25 years, he has unrivalled strategic judgement and experience.
Ian Burton has worked with director Robert Carsen since 1987. Among their collaborations have been Orfeo ed Euridice (2005|06) and Iphigénie en Tauride (2006|07). Burton, who has published eight volumes of poetry, has had articles published by many opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera ...
