Gundula Kreuzer is Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music at Yale University. Her publications include the multiple award-winning Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich (Cambridge University Press, 2010), a critical edition of Verdi’s chamber music (University of Chicago Press, 2010), a co-edited issue of The Opera Quarterly on “Opera in Transition” (2011), and Curtain, Gong, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera (University of California Press, 2018); a short volume on Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler and German cultural memory is forthcoming in the series Themen from the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. In 2019, she received the Dent Medal of the Royal Musical Association for her “outstanding contribution to musicology” and launched a series of symposia (Y | Opera | Studies Today) and a monthly Opera Studies Working Group at Yale to foster dialogues between scholars, artists, and curators about contemporary opera. Other current research interests include “indie” opera in North America; the long history of stage technologies; opera’s entanglements with digital media; and a book project on the role of operatic repertories in postwar German memory cultures. In 2022, she was inducted into the Academia Europaea.