María Encina Cortizo is Professor of Musicology at the University of Oviedo (Spain), coordinating the ‘Erasmus' Research Group. Her main field of research is zarzuela and Spanish opera in the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Michela Niccolai is a Lecturer at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and research associate at Laboratoire de Musicologie (ULB, Bruxelles) and at IHRIM (Université Lyon 2).
Her research interests include the cabaret-shadow theatre and music-hall in French music production, opera staging, and music and politics in Third Republic France and in Fascist Italy.