Professor Alexandra Wilson is a musicologist and cultural historian, with a particular interest in opera. Her books include The Puccini Problem, Puccini’s La bohème, Opera in the Jazz Age, and an edited volume, Puccini in Context. She writes regularly for publications including BBC Music Magazine, Opera and The Critic, as well as for national newspapers, and has contributed essays to the programme books of all the UK’s major opera companies and many abroad. She has taught at the University of Oxford, the Open University, and for 18 years was on the staff at Oxford Brookes University.
2024 jährt sich der Todestag von Giacomo Puccini zum 100. Mal. Dennoch wird sein Werk oft aus der Geschichte der Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts verdrängt. Die Puccini-Expertin Alexandra Wilson erkundet die Vielfalt – und den Modernismus – der späteren Opern des Komponisten.
