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- ‘Sex and Silence: Comte’ d’Orsay, Rossini’s Parody of Opera’s Erotic Dream’ Glyndebourne Opera Programme, 1998
- ‘On Crete and the Female Voice in Opera’, London Review of Books 1997
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