Contributors to This Issue

Carolyn Abbate teaches music and film at Harvard University, where she is also the Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She works as a dramaturg and director, most recently staging Ravel's ballet Ma mère l'oye as a multi-media theater piece (2006) in Forli, Italy; her academic work focuses on performance and technology, the subject of her forthcoming book Overlooking the Ephemeral.

William Albright is a longtime contributer to OQ. He has written articles and reviews for numerous other publications including The Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union, The Los Angeles Daily News, Variety, Opera, Opera News, and Opera Canada and liner notes for London Records.

Robert Baxter is the arts critic for the Camden Courier-Post. His reviews and feature articles have appeared in Opera, Opera News, Opera Canada, and other publications.

Daniel K. L. Chua is a reader in music theory and analysis at King's College London. He is the author of The "Galitzin" Quartets of Beethoven (Princeton University Press, 1995) and Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge University Press, 1999); recent articles include "Adorno's Metaphysics of Mourning: Beethoven's Farewell to Adorno" (Musical Quarterly 87[3], 2004), "The Promise of Nothing: The Dialectic of Freedom in Adorno's Beethoven" (Beethoven Forum 12[1], 2005) and "Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring" (Music Analysis, forthcoming).

Daniel Foley is an independent scholar of 19th century Italian opera with degrees in philosophy and mathematics from Ohio University. He is the creator of an extensive Web site devoted to Giovanni Pacini and is the artistic director of Ottocento Opera Ltd., a recently formed New York–based opera company dedicated to reviving works by contemporaries of Verdi. Forthcoming articles include a review in issue 98 of the Donizetti Society Newsletter.

Eli Friedlander is professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Signs of Sense: Reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus (Harvard University Press, 2000) and J.J. Rousseau: An Afterlife of Words (Harvard University Press, 2004). Eli Friedlander is currently completing a book on the philosophical character of Walter Benjamin's "Arcades Project."

Lydia Goehr is a professor of philosophy and aesthetics at Columbia University. She is the author of The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford: 1992) and The Quest for Voice: Music, Politics, and the Limits of Philosophy (Oxford: 1998) and coeditor with Daniel Herwitz of The Don Giovanni Moment: Essays on the Legacy of an Opera (Columbia University Press: 2006).

Michal Grover-Friedlander is an associate professor in the musicology program and the interdisciplinary program in the arts at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She has co-edited with Vered Lev Kenaan The Voice and the Gaze: Between Philosophy and Literature, Cinema and Opera, Myth and Law (Resling: 2002) (in Hebrew). She is author of Vocal Apparitions: The Attraction of Cinema to Opera (Princeton: 2005) and is currently completing a book entitled Singing Evanescence: Afterlife of Death in Opera.

Beth Hart is a regular contributor to The Opera Quarterly, recently publishing "What Becomes a Legend Most? A Tribute to Beverly Sills," and a profile of Dame Felicity Lott in the autumn 2004 issue. Hart is a professor of clinical psychology and director of the Center for Psychological Services at Pace University. She is currently writing a book on Strauss and Hofmannsthal's psychologically transforming women.

George Jellinek has been connected with radio station WQXR in New York as music director (1968–1984). On his retirement, he continued as emeritus to 2006 and produced a variety of special projects. He created and hosted the nationally syndicated and award-winning The Vocal Scene (1969–2004). He is the author of Callas, Portrait of a Prima Donna (1960) and History Through the Opera Glass (1994). Both books are still in print on the Dover and Limelight imprints. His Memoirs will be published by McFarland in late 2006.

Joe Law is assistant vice president for articulation and transfer, coordinator of Writing...