February 13, 2026 | 3:30PM
Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor
Down the Line: In Search of Operatic Infrastructures
Dr. Flora Wilson
Cultural historian of music, writer and broadcaster
About Dr. Flora Wilson
Flora Willson is a UK-based writer, broadcaster and cultural historian of music. Until December 2025 Flora was a Senior Lecturer in Music at King’s College London, where her teaching focused on nineteenth-century music history. Her academic research appears in journals including 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music & Letters and Opera Quarterly as well as in numerous edited collections, including the award-winning Hearing the Crimean War: Wartime Sound and the Unmaking of Sense edited by Gavin Williams. Flora edited the critical edition of Donizetti’s 1840 grand opera Les Martyrs (Ricordi, 2015) and her first monograph, Operatic Infrastructures: Materiality and Meaning in 1890s London, Paris, and New York, will be published by University of Chicago Press in May 2026.
As a professional music journalist, Flora is one of the Guardian’s classical music critics as well as writing regularly for Gramophone, the Times Literary Supplement and other outlets. As a presenter and speaker, Flora has worked on and off camera with leading UK cultural institutions including BBC Proms, English National Opera, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Opera Rara, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Ballet & Opera and Southbank Centre. Flora has been a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4 for over a decade, occasionally appears as a music expert in BBC TV documentaries and is the presenter of the eight-part series Unmissable Opera on Royal Ballet & Opera Stream.