Bio

Heather Hadlock studies 18th- and 19th-century French and Italian opera, with a focus on changing norms for representing masculinity in opera on nineteenth century stages and in contemporary productions of classic operas. Her research repertoire encompasses Italian bel canto opera, Berlioz, Offenbach, operatic masculinities, opera in the age of its digital mediation, and divas and technology. She approaches operatic voices and performance through feminist theories of difference, vocality, and embodiment; gender and sexuality studies; and dynamics of adaptation between opera, literature, and video. She has directed Stanford's interdisciplinary Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and served on the Phiip Brett Award committee and board of the AMS LGBTQ Study Group. She serves on the editorial board of the journal Nineteenth-Century Music.

Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Music

Administrative Appointments

  • Assistant Professor of Music, Stanford University (1996 - 2004)
  • Associate Professor of Music, Stanford University (2004 - Present)
  • Director of the Program in Feminist Studies, Stanford University (2008 - 2012)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Co-Chair of the Board, LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society (2016 - Present)
  • Chair, Musicology Search Committee, Stanford University (2011 - 2012)
  • Editorial Board, Nineteenth-Century Music (2008 - Present)
  • Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Feminist Studies, Stanford University (2008 - 2012)

Program Affiliations

  • Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Professional Education

  • Ph.D., Princeton University, Musicology (1996)

Links

2024-25 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Light Music meretrix Offenbach, "Rondeau de la Lettre' (Metella), La Vie parisienne, Act II CAMBRIDGE OPERA JOURNAL Hadlock, H. 2016; 28 (2): 203-207

    View details for DOI 10.1017/S0954586716000252

    View details for Web of Science ID 000385678400019

  • "The Televisual Apotheosis of the Diva in István Szabó's Meeting Venus" Technology and the Diva Hadlock, H. edited by Henson, K. Cambridge University Press. 2016: 136–149

    View details for DOI https://doi-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031240.010

  • Different masculinities: Androgyny, effeminacy, and sentiment in Rossini's La Donna del lago Rethinking Difference in Music Scholarship Hadlock, H. edited by Bloechl, O., Lowe, M., Kallberg, J. Cambridge University Press. 2014: 170–213
  • 'Ce bal est original!' Classical parody and burlesque in Orphée aux enfers by Crémieux, Halévy, and Offenbach Music's Obedient Daughter: The opera libretto from source to score Hadlock, H. edited by Lichtenstein, S. Rodopi. 2014: 155–184
  • Opera and Gender Studies The Cambridge Companion to Opera Studies Hadlock, H. edited by Till, N. Cambridge University Press. 2012: 257–275
  • Women in Music www.oxfordbibliographies.com Hadlock, H. 2011

    View details for DOI 10.1093/OBO/9780199757824-0078

  • Women playing men in Italian opera, 1810-1835 Women's Voices Across Musical Worlds Hadlock, H. edited by Bernstein, J. Northeastern University Press. 2004: 285–307
  • Sonorous bodies: Women and the glass harmonica JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY Hadlock, H. 2000; 53 (3): 507-542

    View details for Web of Science ID 000169202500002

  • The Career of Cherubino, or, The Trouser Role Grows Up Siren Songs: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Opera Hadlock, H. edited by Smart, M. Princeton University Press. 2000: 67–92
  • After Wagner: Gilliam and Daub OPERA QUARTERLY Hadlock, H. 2015; 31 (4): 308-315

    View details for DOI 10.1093/oq/kbv011

    View details for Web of Science ID 000368889000007

  • Portrait of a castrato: politics, patronage and music in the life of Atto Melani (Book Review) EARLY MUSIC Book Review Authored by: Hadlock, H. 2010; 38 (3): 446-449

    View details for DOI 10.1093/em/caq057

    View details for Web of Science ID 000282249600013

  • Return of the repressed: The Prima donna from Hoffmann's Tales to Offenbach's Les contes National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera Hadlock, H. Ashgate . 2010: 396
  • Music of the Sirens (Book Review) JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY Book Review Authored by: Hadlock, H. 2008; 61 (3): 633-645

    View details for Web of Science ID 000261188400015

  • The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Book Review) JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY Book Review Authored by: Hadlock, H. 2008; 61 (3): 633-645

    View details for Web of Science ID 000261188400014

  • Tancredi and Semiramide The Cambridge Companion to Rossini Hadlock, H. edited by Senici, E. Cambridge University Press. 2004: 139–158
  • Berlioz, Ophelia, and feminist hermeneutics Berlioz: Past, Present, Future Hadlock, H. edited by Bloom, P. University of Rochester Press. 2003: 123–133
  • 'The firmness of a female hand' in The Corsair and Il Corsaro Cambridge Opera Journal Hadlock, H. 2002; 14(1-2): 47-57
  • Offenbach Les 'Brigands' NOTES Hadlock, H. 1996; 53 (1): 130-132

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996VE66500048

  • Offenbach La 'Vie Parisienne' NOTES Hadlock, H. 1996; 53 (1): 130-132

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996VE66500047