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Biography
Dr. Basil Considine is an award-winning musicologist, opera director, and composer. He was named one of Musical America's Top 30 Movers & Shapers in 2017 and received (with Elissa Edwards) the Society for American Music's Digital Lectures in American Music Award for 2019.
Dr. Considine is one of Minnesota's pre-eminent music and theatre critics, with a specialization in opera history and new opera criticism. He is a specialist in French opera from the 18th and 19th centuries, and conducted ethnographic field research on music in Hawaii and Mauritius. His landmark doctoral dissertation Priests, Pirates, Opera Singers, and Slaves: Séga and European Art Music in Mauritius, the Little Paris of the Indian Ocean outlines the active musical history of this island from its first human habitation to the 21st century. His writings on P.G. Wodehouse and Donizetti are available from Ashgate and Brepols, and his writings on international education from Springer.
Basil has been the Artistic Director of Really Spicy Opera since 2005, curating more than two dozen world premieres of music-theatre works and a host of award-winning productions. Basil has served on the faculties and staff of Azusa Pacific University, Boston University, Walden University and The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is currently a faculty member at Abilene Christian University.
Basil was a 2018-2019 Research Fellow at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, and received the American Musicological Society's Janet Levy Award in 2019. He was named a Fulbright Faculty Scholar in 2020.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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Artist Information
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