Ellen Lockhart is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto. Lockhart received her PhD from Cornell University in 2011, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University from 2011-14. Her articles have appeared in Representations, Eighteenth-Century Music, and the Cambridge Opera Journal. Her book Animation, Plasticity, and Music in Italy, 1770-1830 (2017) was published by the University of California Press, with an AMS75 Book Subvention Prize. Her critical edition of Puccini’s “Wild West opera” La fanciulla del West had its premiere at La Scala in 2016 under the baton of Riccardo Chailly. With Sarah Hibberd, she is General Editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.

Ditlev Rindom is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Music and Theatre at Sapienza University of Rome. He studied at Oxford, the Royal Northern College of Music and Cambridge (PhD, 2019), and was subsequently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King’s College London; he has also held a Visiting Fellowship at Yale University (2018). He has published articles in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 19th-Century Music and the Cambridge Opera Journal, and his monograph on Italian operatic circulation between Italy and the Americas 1870–1918 is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. His critical edition of Puccini’s La rondine (1917) for Ricordi was premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in April 2024 under Riccardo Chailly, in a new production to mark Puccini’s centenary.

Marco Ladd received his PhD in Music History from Yale University in 2019 and is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at King’s College London; previously he was a Junior Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His research examines music in Italy in the early twentieth century with a particular focus on intersections between popular and elite musical traditions. His work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Cambridge Opera Journal and The Opera Quarterly, and he is currently completing a monograph on music in Italian silent cinema.

Peter McMurray is Associate Professor in Ethnomusicology at the University of Cambridge. His work focuses particularly on auditory cultures of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey and its diasporas. He is completing a book/media project on Islamic sonic arts and practices among (post)migrant communities in Berlin since 1961. He is Principal Investigator on the ERC/UKRI project, ‘Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media, and Power, 1789-1922’. Other research interests include intersections of sound/Islam, histories of audiovisual recording media, and orality/oral poetry. He is co-editor of two recent volumes, Singers and Tales in the 21st Century (with David F. Elmer) and Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media, and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century (with Priyasha Mukhopadhyay).