Mrs Billington, 'A bravura Air'
Favourite songs in Zamira e Azore
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Michael Burden is Professor in Opera Studies at University of Oxford, and is Fellow in Music at New College, where he is also Dean. His published research is on the theatre music of Henry Purcell, on the staging of opera and dance in London in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; he is also working on the administration of the Pyne-Harrison and English Opera Companies. Both his study of the soprano Regina Mingotti's London years, and his five volume collection, London Opera Observ.d 1711-1844, will appear in 2013. He is currently working on The London Stage 1800-1900 database, a calendar of performances, and related projects. He has just finished three years as President of the British Society for 18th-century Studies, and is a Visitor to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, a trustee of RISM, and director of productions of New Chamber Opera. He organises the annual Oxford Dance Sympoisum with Jennifer Thorp, with whom he co-edited the Ballet de la Nuit in 2010.
Christopher Chowrimootoo is an Early Career Fellow in Opera Studies at Oxford Brookes University. In the academic year 2013-2014, he will take up the post of Assistant Professor of Musicology and Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests range broadly across the history of opera, with particular focus on the intersections between opera, modernism and middlebrow culture in the twentieth century. He is the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, including the British Library's Edison Fellowship and the 2012 Jerome Roche Prize of the Royal Musical Association (for a distinguished article by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career). He has published essays and articles in Eighteenth-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal and The Opera Quarterly.