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Professor of Musicology, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto

RESEARCH INTERESTS

As an 18thC music historian, my research focuses on Haydn studies, Mozart opera and historiography, and the politics of musical reception. As an opera researcher, I investigate processes of adaptation, gender and representation, opera’s cultural resonances, and the activities of indie opera collectives.

My current project focuses on Haydn’s unperformed Orpheus opera (London 1791) in the context of English anxieties about the French Revolution, and the opera’s eventual premiere (Florence 1951) during the Cold War.

I’m also part of a research team investigating music in the treatment of epilepsy (Krembil Brain Institute, Toronto Western Hospital, UHN).

EXPERIENCE

Professor, University of Toronto, 1993-present
Senior Fellow, Massey College, 2019- ; Fellow, Trinity College, 2009-
Faculty Research Fellow, Jackman Humanities Institute, 2020-2021 – Indie Opera Collectives

EDUCATION

Cornell University, PhD, Musicology, 1991

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Cambridge Haydn Encyclopedia, co-edited with Sarah Day-O’Connell. Cambridge UP, 2019
https://faculti.net/cambridge-haydn-encyclopedia/

“Hearing Riel,” University of Toronto Quarterly 87/4 (Fall 2018), co-editor.

“Seizing the Menotti Moment: Opera meets McLuhan meets Millennials,” College Music Symposium 56 (Fall 2016)

Haydn’s Jews: Representation and Reception on the Operatic Stage. Cambridge UP, 2009

The Cambridge Companion to Haydn, editor and author. Cambridge UP, 2005

“Forging Identity: Beethoven’s Ode as European Anthem,” Critical Inquiry 23 (1997):789-807; trans. into Korean, Aesthetics and Sociology of Beethoven, ed. Hee Sook Oh. Seoul: Monopoly Publisher, 2020