Publications & papers

Academic publications

• 'Melancholy and Allegory in Die Frau ohne Schatten', Cambridge Opera Journal, vol. 24 no. 1 (March 2012), 67-97
• 'In Search of Strauss' (Review-article: Charles Youmans (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Richard Strauss), Journal of the Royal Musical Association, vol. 137 no.1 (2012), 187-192
• 'Visions of Parsifal', (Review of Romeo Castellucci’s production of Wagner's Parsifal, La Monnaie, Brussels February 2011), The Wagner Journal, vol. 5 no. 2 (July 2011), 82-85
• Review of Wayne Heisler Jr, The Ballet Collaborations of Richard Strauss (University of Rochester Press, 2009), Music and Letters, Vol. 91 No. 3 (2010), 449-451

Selected other publications

• 'A selective performance history’, in Gary Kahn (ed.) Otello, Overture Opera Guide (London: Overture, 2014)
• 'Staging the Secession: Hugo Shirley sketches the revolutionary career of Alfred Roller', Opera, Vol. 63, No. 11 (November 2014), 1360-1365
• 'Business as Usual: Hugo Shirley considers questions raised by the Strauss anniversary', Opera, Vol. 63, No. 8 (August 2014), 955-962
• 'A selective performance history’, in Gary Kahn (ed.) La traviata, Overture Opera Guide (London: Overture, 2013)
• 'The Saxon connection: Hugo Shirley explores Wagner's links with Leipzig and Dresden', Opera, Vol. 63, No. 3 (March 2013), 307-314
• 'His maestro’s voice: Hugo Shirley reflects on Georg Solti’s recorded legacy', Opera, vol. 63 No. 10 (October 2012), 1197-1204
• 'Hearts of Darkness: Hugo Shirley introduces Jakob Lenz and Caligula', Opera, vol. 63 No. 4 (April 2012), 417-423 

Papers delivered

• 'Fixing Time: Nostalgia and the City in Der Rosenkavalier', invited Colloquium at King's College London, March 2014
• Wagner as Producer, Invited paper at 'Wagner 200', King’s Place, London, June 2013
• Vater bist du's?: Constructions of Patriarchal Absence in the Strauss-Hofmannsthal Operas, 'Operatic Masculinities', conference organized by the OBERTO research unit at Oxford Brookes University, 11 September 2012
• Criticism under Fire: The Comment's Challenge to Authority, 10-minute presentation as part of roundtable at 'Beyond Press Cuttings', conference organized by OBERTO at Oxford Brookes University, 13 September 2011
• 'Inventing the Invisible Theatre': Preservation and Prestige in John Culshaw's Wagner, Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Dublin, 24-26 June 2011; Conference of the RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group, London, 1-2 July 2011
• 'Der mißbrauchte Barock' and the mythical 'Mozart-Element' in Richard Strauss's operas of the 1910s, Royal Musical Association Annual Conference, London, 15-17 July 2010
• 'Ein echter heutiger Mozart': Die Frau ohne Schatten and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Construction of Austrian Cultural Identity, 7th International Postgraduate Conference on Current Research in Austrian Literature, University of London, 3-4 June 2010
• 'Nun will ich schaffen!' Allegorical crisis and Romantic resolution in Hofmannsthal and Strauss's 'Die Frau ohne Schatten', RMA Annual Student's Conference, University of York, 7-9 January 2010