Alexandra Wilson

Senior Research Fellow in Music, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Alexandra Wilson is a senior research fellow in music and history at Jesus College, University of Oxford, and holds a research residency at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is the author of The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism and Modernity (2007), Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain (2019) and Puccini’s La bohème (2021), and the editor of Puccini in Context (2023).

Written by Alexandra Wilson

Photo of a person in vibrant traditional attire with an orange headwrap singing on stage, another in shadow to the side.
MUSIC

How to get hooked on opera

Aspects of opera can seem strange. But give it a try and you’ll soon find yourself absorbed in a truly magical experience

by Alexandra Wilson