Susan Rutherford is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Manchester. Among various essays on voice, performance and nineteenth-century Italian opera, her publications also include The New Woman and her Sisters: Feminism and Theatre, 1850 1914 (co-editor, 1992), and The Prima Donna and Opera, 1815 1930 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), which received the 2007 Pauline Alderman Award (IAWM) for research on women and music.