Explores the rich and varied interactions between nineteenth-century science and the world of opera for the first time.
Benjamin Walton is University Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Jesus College. His monograph, Rossini in Restoration Paris: The Sound of Modern Life (Cambridge) was published in 2007, and a collection of essays entitled The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini (2013) was co-edited with Nicholas Mathew. From 2014-18 he was co-editor of Cambridge Opera Journal.
