Simon Banks

Simon Banks taught art history at the University of St Andrews and had a career in qualifications management with Cambridge Assessment.

Since 2019 he has published articles in Opera magazine and programme notes for Wexford Festival Opera. In 2023 he published an article about Wagner and the Emperor Frederick II in 'Wagner News', the magazine of the Wagner Society. 

An article titled "Building new futures by rewriting the past: how operas have recreated history" was published in the Summer 2023 edition of 'The Historian', the magazine of the Historical Association.