
CHARLES HART writes words for music. Operas include: Marx In London (Jonathan Dove, Stadttheater Bonn); Benvenuto Cellini (Hector Berlioz, English National Opera); The Vampyr (Heinrich Marschner, BBC TV). Musicals include: Bend It Like Beckham (Howard Goodall, Phoenix Theatre); Aspects of Love (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Prince of Wales Theatre); The Phantom Of The Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Her Majesty's Theatre). Songs include: Seventeen (Claude-Michel Schönberg, sung by Russell Watson); Goodbye For Now (Richard Rodney Bennett, sung by Claire Martin); I Live This Life For Me (Michael Kunze, Sylvester Levay, sung by Pia Douwes). He has also provided both words and music for Granada TV comedies Watching (sung by Emma Wray) and Split Ends (sung by Anita Dobson), and a song-cycle for BBC Radio: Love-Songs (sung by Mary-Louise Clark).Charles Hart is the recipient of two Ivor Novello Awards, and has been nominated twice for a Tony award and once for an Academy Award. He was born in London, educated in Maidenhead and Cambridge, and lives and works in West London and East Anglia.