Suzanne Aspden

Suzanne Aspden (born August 1968)[1] is a New Zealand musicologist and cultural historian who has been a tutorial fellow and associate professor in music at Jesus College, University of Oxford since 2005.

Life

Aspden was a research fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2002 and a lecturer in music at the University of Southampton from 2002 to 2005. In 2002-3 she was the first John Marshall and Marie Louise Osborn Fellow at the Beinecke Library, Yale University.[2][3]

Aspden was formerly a co-editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.[4] She is currently a governor of the Crypt School in Gloucester.[5]

Aspden appeared in an edition of the BBC Radio 3 programme Record Review in June 2019.[6]

Selected publications

  • Editor, Operatic Geographies: The Place of Opera and the Opera House. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. ISBN 9780226595962.
  • The Rival Sirens: Performance and Identity on Handel’s Operatic Stage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. ISBN 9781107033375.
  • Co-editor with Suzanne M. Lodato and Walter Bernhart, Essays in Honor of Stephen Paul Scher and on Cultural Identity and the Musical Stage. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. ISBN 9042010037.

References

  1. ↑ "Suzanne Aspden Personal Appointments". Companies House. Retrieved 28 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Professor Suzanne Aspden - Jesus College, University of Oxford". Jesus.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Suzanne Aspden - Oxford University Faculty of Music". Music.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Suzanne Aspden; Steven Huebner (July 2009). "Twenty Years". Cambridge Opera Journal. 21 (2): 101–3.
  5. ↑ "Governors". The Crypt School. Archived from the original on 28 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Record Review, Andrew McGregor with Suzanne Aspden and William Mival". BBC Radio 3. Retrieved 28 December 2025.