News

Publication Now Available

The Spring/Summer 2023 issue of The Opera Journal, which includes Breena’s article, “The ‘Feminine Other’: Italian Opera, the Female Body, and the Society of Dilettanti in Mid-Eighteenth Century London,” is now available!

(With National Opera Association President-elect Isaí Jess Muñoz)

Winner of the National Opera Association’s Scholarly Paper Competition – Leland Fox Memorial Award

In November 2022, Breena won the 38th Annual National Opera Association’s Scholarly Paper Competition with her article, “The ‘Feminine Other’: Italian Opera, the Female Body, and the Society of Dilettanti in Mid-Eighteenth Century London.”

In January 2023, she presented her paper at the National Opera Association’s annual conference in Houston, Texas, where she received the Leland Fox Memorial Award.

Her paper will be published in the Spring/Summer 2023 issue of The Opera Journal.

Photo Credit: Greg Perrow

Commencement Speaker

Breena was selected to be the Graduate Student Commencement Speaker for the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music 2021 Commencement Ceremony! If you missed the live broadcast, you can watch it here now!