Overview
Melodrama and related genres, from opera to film; theatrical practices and visual cultures; French musical aesthetics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, music and philosophy of the arts; the 'chanson populaire'.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Associate Professor of Music
·
2008 - Present
Music,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Speaking German Musically: Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820
Book · May 20, 2025 Poetic Recitation in Central Europe, 1760-1820 Jacqueline Waeber. spection , became the privileged theatrical locus for the display of excess . 62 The melodramatic libretto is a ' shortened tragedy ' : a Kurztragödie , a term used in German .. ... CitePhilon und Theone Georg Anton Benda (1722–1795), ed. Austin Glatthorn Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, 2020 pp. xxiv + 166, ISBN 978 1 9872 0456 8
Book Review Eighteenth Century Music · March 2024 Full text CiteThe Cambridge Companion to Seventeenth-Century Opera
Book · December 22, 2022 With a range from opera's sixteenth-century antecedents to the threshold of the eighteenth century, this path breaking book is broad enough to function as a comprehensive introduction, yet sufficiently detailed to offer valuable insights ... ... CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
University of Geneva (Switzerland) ·
2002
Ph.D.