Bio

Roger Parker is Professor of Music at King’s College London, having previously taught at Cornell, Oxford, and Cambridge. He is General Editor (with Gabriele Dotto) of The Critical Edition of the Operas of Gaetano Donizetti, published by Ricordi. His most recent books are Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio (University of California Press, 2006); and A History of Opera (Penguin, UK and Norton, US, 2012), written jointly with Carolyn Abbate. He is now working on a book about music in London in the 1830s.