Alexandra Wilson is Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on opera and operatic culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Her publications include the award-winning The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity and a monograph on Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain (OUP, 2019), and she regularly works with the UK's leading opera companies.

[Wilson's] own love for & insight into the work, & indeed into Puccini's individual approach to music drama, shine out....she deftly identifies the strong reasons why connoisseurs continue to delight in the piece. [She] is scrupulous in addressing still-prevalent negative attitudes fully and fairly, while ultimately refuting them....measured and observant.

• Introduction Chapter 1: La Bohème in ContextChapter 2: La Bohème's ParisChapter 3: La Bohème's TravelsChapter 4: Popularising La BohèmeChapter 5: La Bohème Reimagined Bibliography

Alexandra Wilson is Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on opera and operatic culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Her publications include the award-winning The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity and a monograph on Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain (OUP, 2019), and she regularly works with the UK's leading opera companies.

[Wilson's] own love for & insight into the work, & indeed into Puccini's individual approach to music drama, shine out....she deftly identifies the strong reasons why connoisseurs continue to delight in the piece. [She] is scrupulous in addressing still-prevalent negative attitudes fully and fairly, while ultimately refuting them....measured and observant.

• Introduction Chapter 1: La Bohème in ContextChapter 2: La Bohème's ParisChapter 3: La Bohème's TravelsChapter 4: Popularising La BohèmeChapter 5: La Bohème Reimagined Bibliography

Alexandra Wilson is Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on opera and operatic culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Her publications include the award-winning The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity and a monograph on Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain (OUP, 2019), and she regularly works with the UK's leading opera companies.

[Wilson's] own love for & insight into the work, & indeed into Puccini's individual approach to music drama, shine out....she deftly identifies the strong reasons why connoisseurs continue to delight in the piece. [She] is scrupulous in addressing still-prevalent negative attitudes fully and fairly, while ultimately refuting them....measured and observant.

• Introduction Chapter 1: La Bohème in ContextChapter 2: La Bohème's ParisChapter 3: La Bohème's TravelsChapter 4: Popularising La BohèmeChapter 5: La Bohème Reimagined Bibliography