“America, Genre, and Opera, c.1893” (Dr Charlotte Bentley, Newcastle University)

Charlotte Bentley has been a Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University since 2021, having previously held a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Her recent research focuses on musical transnationalism, with a particular interest in the development of transatlantic and intra-American operatic networks in the nineteenth century. Her monograph, New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera, 1819-1859, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2022 and won the American Musicological Society’s H. Robert Cohen / RIPM Award in 2023.