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Name Professor Sarah Hibberd
Job title Stanley Hugh Badock Chair of Music
Department Department of Music University of Bristol
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Qualifications PhD
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Membership of professional bodies Royal Musical Association
Keywords opera
opera and politics
French opera
Italian opera
Nineteenth-century opera
melodrama
Nineteenth-century music
Areas of expertise My interests focus on nineteenth-century opera – French, Italian, German – and musical culture in nineteenth-century London and Paris. I have also worked on melodrama, ballet, pantomime, early silent film and music.
Media experience I have given interviews (BBC Radio 3, BBC4) and talks (Royal Opera House, Opera North, Buxton festival) on Wagner, Verdi, Meyerbeer, Rossini, Bellini and Beethoven.