Justin Vickers is Distinguished Professor of Music at Illinois State University. He is the author of The Aldeburgh Festival: A History of the Britten and Pears Era, 1948–1986 (forthcoming), the co-editor of Childhood and the Operatic Imaginary since 1900 (2026) with Joy H. Calico, and Benjamin Britten in Context (2022) and Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art (2017), both with Vicki P. Stroeher. Lucy Walker is an independent scholar, speaker, and writer on classical music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her recent research activities have focussed on the cultural representation of all-female communities in a variety of historical contexts. Walker has written programme essays for the Salzburg Festival, London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Opera, English National Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and the BBC Proms, among many more.