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 marks the centenary of Giacomo Puccini’s death. Yet his work is often relegated from histories of 20th-century music. Puccini scholar Alexandra Wilson explores the diversity – and modernism – of the composer’s later operas.
