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“After the Premiere” {Blog}
Justin Vickers is an international authority on the music and lives of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, their entrepreneurial endeavors, and their coterie of colleagues and friends.
A specialist on the history of the Aldeburgh Festival and the English Opera Group, Vickers brings both a scholar’s eye and a singer’s ear to his work. Building on a long career as a performer, he now writes extensively on postwar and contemporary opera, vocal, chamber, and orchestral music.
It’s that performance authority that resonates across his published writing.
Vickers’s scholarship in the area of children’s opera promises to tilt Opera Studies — with its otherwise adult-centric focus — off its axis. Vickers is keen to examine composers of children’s operas and those works with the same historical scrutiny the discipline affords to new and established operas in the canon.
Vickers has a wide range of interests and he embraces them with abandon. Check back routinely for new entries in his “After the Premiere” blog.
About the Author
Justin Vickers is an award-winning author celebrated for his deep archival research, clear historical expertise, thought-provoking storytelling, and his evocative use of language. His compelling narratives explore the overlapping of rich contextual knowledge with probing and fresh insights.
An in-demand essayist, Vickers writes regularly for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the English National Opera.
Vickers is Distinguished Professor of Music at Illinois State University, was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, and a Visiting Fellow at New College, Oxford.
He publishes with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Bittern Press, and The Boydell Press.
Above all, Vickers prizes collaboration, believing deeply that the greatest results are generated through teams of invested creatives and scholars.
Justin aims to explore a panoply of ideas in his “After the Premiere” blog, on this site.
Justin Vickers at work in the Britten Pears Arts Archive on the grounds of The Red House in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, UK.