by admin | Oct 11, 2024
Ah, star-cross’d lovers! I’ll be giving the pre-performance talk for LA Opera‘s production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. I’ll delve into the particular history and aesthetic traditions of French opera, I’ll spotlight some of the charms (those duets!) of this canonic... 
by admin | Oct 11, 2024
Ever notice that French-language opera doesn’t get the same time in the programming spotlight as Italian-language opera? No fair! I will dive into the rich history of French opera and focus especially on the cultural, aesthetic, and musical world of French grand... 
by admin | May 29, 2024
I continue my seminar series with for the Opera League of Los Angeles celebrating the centennial of Puccini’s death. This second lecture looks at Puccini’s “triple crown” of popular works: La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly. I’ll... 
by admin | May 16, 2024
My life as a teacher and scholar has been wonderfully enriched over the past 2+ years as a Lecturer in Musicology at UCLA. Case in point? The “Music in Dialogue” Conference organized by the student editorial team of MUSE: An Undergraduate Music Studies... 
by admin | Mar 13, 2024
The Barrington Area Library invited me to speak about my book, Understanding the Women of Mozart’s Operas (Univ. of Calif. Press, 2007, 2021), a critical re-evaluating source materials as well as common reception assumptions about the female roles in the Da...