Professor Alexandra Wilson is a prize-winning, internationally respected academic, author and arts commentator. A musicologist and cultural historian, her books include The Puccini Problem, Opera in the Jazz Age, Puccini’s La bohème, Puccini in Context, and Someone Else’s Music: Opera and the British.

Wilson is a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford and holds a Research Residency at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Over the last 25 years Wilson has advocated tirelessly for the arts, particularly for classical music for all. She works with all the major UK opera companies and has presented or contributed to numerous broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Wilson is a regular writer for BBC Music Magazine, Opera, and Engelsberg Ideas, and has also had articles published in The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Times, The Guardian, History Today, and Limelight. She writes regular opinion pieces for The Critic.