All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 2

All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 2

by | Oct 10, 2023

By Dr. April Lynn James.  Part 1 is published here  My bestselling book,* The Tenth Muse: How Maria Antonia Advanced the Pastoral Opera, is a major revision of the dissertation I completed in 2002. Why did I not publish it then? I had other things to do with my life...
All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 1

All Hail The Tenth Muse! Part 1

by | Aug 29, 2023

By Dr. April Lynn James Affectionately known as The PhDiva!!!, Dr. April is a classically trained soprano with a PhD from Harvard best known for her groundbreaking work returning operas composed by women to the world’s stages. She survived her Harvard doctoral...
Beyond Mrs. Bach

Beyond Mrs. Bach

by | Nov 7, 2014

The classical music world has been all a-tizzy in recent days about Martin Jarvis’ work linking Anna Magdalena Bach to J.S. Bach’s Cello Suites.  The story first made headlines in 2008, and again last week now that the theory is explored in a film. The...

Maria Antonia Walpurgis

by | Mar 22, 2011

Also known as Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724-1780) was Electress of Saxony as well as a composer, singer, harpsichordist and arts patron. In the same year that she wed (1747) she also joined the Accademia dell’Arcadia of Rome which sought to reform opera. Opera played...