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Feb 19, 2026 1 hr 9 min

Gundula Kreuzer

from EC2 Hosted by Ella Choi

In this episode, I chat with Professor Gundula Kreuzer. Professor Kreuzer is a musicologist and Professor at Yale University whose research spans the history and theory of opera, staging technologies, media archaeology, music in the Third Reich, and contemporary experimental opera. Her first book, Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 2010), won the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society and the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize, and her second, Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera (University of California Press, 2018), explores how composers shaped staged opera through specific theatrical technologies. She is a member of the Academia Europaea and recipient of the Royal Musical Association's Dent Medal, the Alfred Einstein Award, and multiple other honors. At Yale, she founded the YOST: Y | Opera | Studies Today conference series and leads the Opera Studies Today Working Group, fostering dialogue between artists, scholars, and administrators in the field.

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