Naomi AndréNaomi André is the David G. Frey Distinguished Professor in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and Professor Emerita at the University of Michigan, USA, in Afroamerican and African Studies, omen's and Gender Studies, and the Residential College. Her publications include the books Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement and Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera and co-edited collections African Performance Arts and Political Acts and Blackness in Opera. She has worked with opera companies, symphonies, and is a founding member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN). Read More Read Less