Michael Burden
(Director) who has been lecturer in Music at New College since
1989, and since 1995, Fellow in Music and Lecturer in Opera Studies
in the University, founded New Chamber Opera with Gary Cooper in
1990. He has directed some twenty productions since then, and
combines his opera work with research interests in theatre music of
the 17th, 18th and 20th centuries. He has edited and commissioned
several volumes of essays, including one on the Dido myth, and is
working on a volume on the history of staging opera in England from
Purcell to Mozart; his latest book is Henry Purcell’s Operas:
the Complete Texts and his new edition of Marcello has just
appeared.
