- Michael Burden
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Michael Burden (born 14 March 1960), BA (Hons), MA (Adelaide), PhD (Edinburgh) is Fellow in Music, Dean and Chattels Fellow at New College, Oxford; he is also Director of New Chamber Opera, and Reader in Opera Studies in the University of Oxford.
His research is on the stage music of Purcell, and on aspects of dance and theatre in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and includes a catalogue of Metastasio’s operas as performed in London, an edition of Le Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6 with Jennifer Thorp, and a forthcoming biographical account of Regina Mingotti’s years in London. He is currently completing a book on the staging of opera in London 1660 to 1860, and is on the editoral committees for the collected Stradella and Eccles editions.
In October 2007, he was elected a Visitor to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; he is also curator of the Music Faculty's collection of portraits. Since 2009, he has been the president of The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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Sources
- The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- University of Oxford Faculty of Music. Dr. Michael Burden
- New College Oxford. Michael Burden
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