Michael Burden is Professor in Opera Studies at Oxford University. His published research is on aspects of dance and theatre in the London theatres of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. He is currently completing a volume on the staging of opera in London between 166 and 186 ; his five-volume collection of opera documents, London Opera Observed, and his study of the London years of the soprano Regina Mingotti were both published in 213, and - edited with Jennifer Thorp - The Works of Monsieur Noverre translated from the French in 214.
Jennifer Thorp has a particular interest in the dance of royal court and public theatre in England and France from the late-seventeenth to the late-eighteenth centuries. She has co-edited, with Michael Burden, a study of Le Ballet de la Nuit (21), and The Works of Monsieur Noverre translated from the French, 1783 (214), and is currently preparing for publication a biography and study of the dances of the London dancing-master Mr Isaac.