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D. Warner North is president and principal scientist of NorthWorks, Inc., and consulting professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Over the past forty years Dr. North has carried out applications of decision analysis and risk analysis for electric utilities in the US and Mexico, for the petroleum and chemical industries, and for government agencies with responsibility for energy and environmental protection.






Cheryl North (Warner's wife and the director of the music journalism activities of NorthWorks) is a noted music columnist for the Oakland Tribune and other papers of the Bay Area News Group. She writes performance reviews and feature articles for other publications, including Opera Now, based in Great Britain. Profile/interviews with major figures on the international, national, and local San Francisco Bay Area classical music scene have become an important specialty for which she is in demand.

New from Cheryl North:
San Francisco Opera Spring 2010

Read Cheryl's North's review of Gounod's Faust, which opened the spring season on June 5: "Patricia Racette was a definitive Marguerite, acting and singing with the all the alternating innocence, unabashed passion and ultimate despair the character requires. Racette's charismatic stage presence seems to grow with each succeeding role - as does the beauty and timbre of her voice."

Last fall, Patricia Racette has realized her dream of singing all three soprano roles in the three one-act operas of Puccini's Il Trittico. Cheryl North's interview with Patricia Racette was published Friday, September 18, 2009 in Bay Area New Group papers under the headline, "Puccini's 'Senza Mama' follows Racette everywhere."

And, for you Wagner fans, read Cheryl North's interviews with Mark Delavan (Wotan), Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), and Maestro Donald Runnicles regarding Die Walküre, the second installment of the American Ring, which will be performed in its entirety next summer. Her previous interviews with Mark Delavan, Christopher Ventris and Donald Runnicles are in the Interviews section of this website. And see also the 2006 interview with Deborah Voight, now starring in the title role of Puccini's Girl of the Golden West.



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