Rachel Cowgill is Professor of Music at Cardiff University, and editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Her research encompasses British music and musical cultures, Italian opera, Mozart reception, and gender and sexuality, and has appeared in Cambridge Opera Journal, JRMA, Early Music, Musical Times, and collections from Ashgate, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Oxford University Press, and Princeton University Press. Rachel co-edited Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music (Ashgate, 2006), Music in the British Provinces, 1690-1914 (Ashgate, 2007), and Art and Ideology in European Opera (Boydell & Brewer, 2010).
Hilary Poriss is Associate Professor at Northeastern University, Boston. Her research interests focus on Italian opera, performance practice, diva culture, and the aesthetics of nineteenth-century musical culture. She is the author of Changing the Score: Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance (Oxford University Press, 2009); and co-editor, with Roberta Montemorra Marvin of Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (Cambridge University Press, 2010). She has published articles and reviews in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Verdi Forum, and Nineteenth-Century Music Review.