Lola Salem: Opera Must Change, Or It Will Die!

The Samuel Andreyev Podcast

Dr Lola Salem graduated from the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, in 2015 (MA Musicology), the Sorbonne in 2018 (MA Aesthetics and Philosophy of Arts) and the University of Oxford in 2023 (D.Phil. Musicology). Her academic research lies in the fields of 17-18th centuries opera, performers, patronage and material conditions, with a specific focus on law. In 2018, one of her papers won the Young Scholar Prize at the STIMU Symposium, Utrecht. Since 2018, Lola has taught Music undergraduates across the University in Oxford, and since 2022 she has worked as a Lecturer in French at Wadham and St Catherine’s Colleges. At Oriel College, Oxford, Lola is a Lecturer in Music and teaches the following papers: Foundations in the Study of Music, Musical Thought and Scholarship, Historically Informed Performance, Music and Nationalisms, The String Quartet Between Classicism & Modernism, 18th Century Opera. As a child and teenager, she sang and was professionally trained at the Maîtrise de Radio France (2005-2010). Later, she became an art critic for I/O Gazette between 2016 and 2020. Since 2022, she regularly publishes in The Critic, a UK magazine, and other media such as Arthwart and Engelsberg Ideas. She is also a Civic Future Fellow and a consultant in London on issues related to education, culture, and the arts.
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