Christina Fuhrmann received her Ph.D. from WU in 2001. She is professor of music history and literature at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Performing Arts. Her co-edited book just received a national award at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society:
H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award
Christina Fuhrmann & Alison Mero, eds.
Opera and British Print Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Liverpool University Press, 2023).
“...Together, the essays in this volume illuminate how opera – ‘a living, performative art’ – was brought to life and into the homes of thousands through the “static” medium of newspapers and periodicals, librettos and scores, playbills and many other forms of print culture. Each of the book’s twelve chapters contributes significantly to the scholarship of nineteenth-century opera, highlighting a series of interactions between opera and print including how performers and impresario leveraged an array of publications to shape their public personas; how opera became intertwined with literature, serving as sources of inspiration and points of contention in literary circles; and how issues of nationalism, class, and gender permeated various forms of writing about opera composers, music, and performances.”
