Biografisk notat

Robert Ignatius Letellier lives in Cambridge, UK, and is a member of Trinity College and the Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall. He has written extensively about the opera and ballet of the 19th century, especially on Meyerbeer, Auber, Halévy, Adam and Minkus, as well as source books on opéra-comique and operetta; also on aspects of Romantic literature (the Gothic Novel, Sir Walter Scott) and Scriptural studies (the Bible in word, art and music). Nicholas Lester Fuller is a journalist living in Canberra, Australia. He grew up in Belgium, and studied literature and history at the Australian National University and Sydney University, Australia. He has a particular love of opera, and a specialist engagement with French opera of the 19th century. He has written articles on Massenet, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Reyer, and Hérold for MusicWeb International, and reviewed for Limelight, the Australian classical music magazine.