Public Musicology

Opera Breakdowns Videos for Opera Philadelphia’s repertoire since 2021

Listening Guides for Opera Philadelphia’s Student Newsletters

• Madame Butterfly

• Simon Boccanegra

• Unholy Wars

• Hansel and Gretel

• La bohème

• Carmina Burana

• Rossini’s Otello

Essays for Opera Philadelphia’s Sounds of Learning Program

• Conflicting Emotions, Beautiful Harmonies: Exploring Rigoletto’’s Famous Quartet

• Oedipus Rex and the Greek Chorus

• La Traviata in the Time of COVID-19

• The History of the Verdi Requiem

• The Architecture of the Verdi Requiem

• Eight Trumpets for “Tuba Mirum”

• Written on Skin: A Complex Combination of the Arts

Roundtables

• "The Listeners Roundtable: Artists and Creative Team” (Missy Mazzoli, Royce Vavrek, Lileana Blain-Cruz, and Nicole Heaston; moderated by Dr. Lily Kass)

• “Reimagining Opera’s Heroines for the Modern Age” (Dr. Naomi André, Aria Umezawa, and Karen Slack; moderated by Dr. Lily Kass)

Program Notes

• La Bohème, Opera Philadelphia, April 2023

• Don Giovanni, Peabody Opera Theatre, March 2023

• Carmina Burana and Credo, Opera Philadelphia, February 2023

• Oedipus Rex, Opera Philadelphia, January 2022

Massive Open Online Course

• Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain

K-12 Worksheets

• Simon Boccanegra: Backstories

• Madame Butterfly: Orientalism in Music

Interviews

• Meet the Scholar in Residence (with Opera Philadelphia’s Vice President of Community Initiatives, Veronica Chapman-Smith)

• The Indie Opera Podcast’s OperaFix

• The Bodice Ripper Project with Maren Montalbano

Webinar

• “Generation NOW: Opera Translation and Audience Engagement” (Opera NextGen)

Book Reviews

• Heidi Waleson’s Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America for Gotham Center Blog for Scholars of New York History

• Sterling Lambert’s Re-Reading Poetry: Schubert’s Multiple Settings of Goethe for Opera News

Scholarly Publications

• Penitence, External and Internal Sound at the Eastern State Penitentiary: 1830-1850

• Italian Ornamentation of British Patriotic Songs: Brigida Giorgi Banti at the King’s Theatre, Chapter 10 in Politics and Culture in 18th-Century Anglo-Italian Encounters: Entangled Histories

Press Mentions:

• https://conradbrunstrom.wordpress.com/2021/04/14/never-ending-asecs-painting-the-moor-green-confronting-race-and-gender-in-mozarts-the-magic-flute/

• https://globalchaucers.wordpress.com/tag/penn-humanities-forum/

• https://drexel.edu/now/archive/2016/January/Cold-Mountain/

• https://technical.ly/philly/2016/02/02/cold-mountain-online-course-opera-philadelphia/