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doctoral thesis on “Modern productions of Richard Wagner’s operas in the
21st century: the “Ring” cycle in Riga and its contextualisation”, dedicated to
the “Ring” cycle produced by the Latvian National Opera between 2006–
2013. She has contributed to conferences and publications in various coun-
tries, including Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Poland, Hungary and the United
Kingdom. Publications include, among others, “Richard Wagner’s operas in
the 21st-century Baltics: the same Wagner or another?”, European Scientific
Journal, December 2013 and “Re-extending Wagner’s Universe: the 21st-cen-
tury “Ring” in the Latvian National Opera. Opera and libretto, 2015. Musical
Theatre Research Centre of the University of Poznan, Poland and “Wagner
and the 21st century: the contribution of contemporary opera directing.” Old
Masters in New Interpretations, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 etc.

Biljana Milanović (milanovic2801@gmail.com)
is a Research Associate at the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Acad-
emy of Sciences and Arts. Her scholar interests include 19th- and first half
of 20th-century art and popular music in Serbia in regional and European
frames, studies of nationalism, musical peripheries, Balkanism, Oriental-
ism, cultural diplomacy and other areas and topics related to music that she
seeks to integrate into studies of culture and history. She is an editor of sev-
eral books, an author of the monograph Muzičke prakse u Srbiji i formiran-
je nacionalnog kanona (2018) as well as more than 70 studies in academic
journals and edited books. From 2012 to 2017 she was Vice President of the
Serbian Musicological Society.

Niall O’Loughlin (N.Oloughlin@lboro.ac.uk)
studied in the Universities of Edinburgh (MA) and Leicester (PhD), and
has specialised in the 20th-century music of Slovenia, the United Kingdom
and Poland. His book Novejša glasba v Sloveniji: osebnosti in razvoj was
published in Ljubljana in 2000. He has written 30 papers for Slovenian Mu-
sic Days symposia, given many other conference papers, written various
articles for Muzikološki zbornik, numerous periodical articles, chapters for
books, and many articles for the various New Grove Dictionaries.
In 2007 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Slovenian Acade-
my of Sciences and Arts.

Gregor Pompe (gregor.pompe@ff.uni-lj.si)
is Associate Professor at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ljubljana. His research interests lie mostly with modern mu-

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