Books By Michael Burden - Author

Michael Burden is Professor in Opera Studies at University of Oxford, and is Fellow in Music at New College, where he is also Dean. His published research is on the theatre music of Henry Purcell, on the staging of opera and dance in London in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries; his on-going research includes the administration of the Pyne-Harrison and English Opera Companies. He is currently working on two databases, the Italian Aria on the London Stage before 1801, and The London Stage 1800-1900, a calendar of performances. He organises the annual Oxford Dance Symposium with Jennifer Thorp, with whom he co-edited the Ballet de la Nuit Rothschild B1/16/6 in 2010.