Public Musicology
I provide public-facing lectures, narration, panel discussions, and other educational outreach programming for opera companies in the Toronto area.
2021–2024
Narrator, lecturer, and author, Toronto City Opera
Pre-performance opera chats: Susannah, February 2024
Program notes, composition and performance of live narration for Tosca, December 2022
Program notes, intermission opera chat, composition and performance of live narration for Nabucco, November 2021
2023
Narrator, Mississauga Symphony Orchestra
Composition and performance of live narration for Il barbiere di Siviglia, February
2022
Interview for "The Blue Woman" on BBC Radio 4, June 29
I discussed the prevalence of and problems with representations of sexual violence on the opera stage to contextualize Laura Bowler's opera The Blue Woman ahead of its premiere at the Royal Opera House.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0018p5v
2020
Lecturer, Opera by Request
Pre-performance opera chats: Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, February
2019–2020
Lecturer, Canadian Opera Company
Pre-performance opera chats: La Bohéme, April–May 2019
Pre-performance opera chats: Rusalka, October 2019
2019
Discussion host and panel curator, Amplified Opera, October 10–12
The AMPLIFY concert series explored the experience of members of equity-seeking groups within opera. These inaugural concerts explored queerness, gender identity, disability, and black identity in contemporary operatic practice.
2019
Public Musicologist, Canadian Opera Company
COC blog post on Così fan tutte, January 9
https://www.coc.ca/COC-news1?Page=1&EntryID=18657
2019
Panel discussion moderator, Canadian Opera Company and SoHo House
Primer for Così fan tutte with director Atom Egoyan, February 13
2018–2019
Lecturer, Canadian Opera Company and Toronto Public Library
“OperaTalks”: La Bohème, May 2019
“OperaTalks”: Intro to Opera, September–November 2018
2018
Panelist, Canadian Opera Company
Spotlight Series: “Wages of Love” panel discussion, October 16
