Michael Burden
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Michael Burden BA (Hons), MA (Adelaide), PhD (Edinburgh) is Fellow in Music, Dean and Chattels Fellow at New College, Oxford
New College, Oxford
New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.- Overview :The College's official name, College of St Mary, is the same as that of the older Oriel College; hence, it has been referred to as the "New College of St Mary", and is now almost always...

; he is also Director of New Chamber Opera, and Reader in Opera Studies in the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

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His research is on the stage music of Purcell
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...

, and on aspects of dance and theatre in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and includes a catalogue of Metastasio’s operas as performed in London, an edition of Le Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6 with Jennifer Thorp, and a forthcoming biographical account of Regina Mingotti’s years in London. He is currently completing a book on the staging of opera in London 1660 to 1860, and is on the editoral committees for the collected Stradella and Eccles editions.

In October 2007, he was elected a Visitor to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum
Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum...

; he is also curator of the Music Faculty's collection of portraits. Since 2009, he has been the president of The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The British Society for Eighteenth-century Studies is an interdisciplinary scholarly society based in the United Kingdom which promotes the study of all aspects of 18th-century cultural history...

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