Pygmalion and the Music of Mere Interest

Ellen Lockhart is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Toronto, having recently completed postdoctoral studies at Princeton’s Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts. Her articles have appeared in the Cambridge Opera Journal, Eighteenth-Century Music, and Opera Quarterly; her book will be published by the University of California Press in 2016, and her forthcoming critical edition of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West for Casa Ricordi will be performed at La Scala in 2017 under the direction of Riccardo Chailly.