Tim Carter (Visiting Professor) BA Durham, PhD Birmingham

E-mail:
cartert@email.unc.edu

Tim Carter was born in Australia and studied in the UK. He is the author of the Cambridge Opera Handbook on Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (1987), Jacopo Peri (1561-1633): his Life and Works (New York and London, 1989), Music in Late Renaissance and Early Baroque Italy (London, 1992), and Monteverdi's Musical Theatre (New Haven and London 2002). He has also published numerous journal articles and essays on music in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy; those to 1998 were reprinted in Music, Patronage and Printing in Late Renaissance Florence and Monteverdi and his Contemporaries (both London, 2000). In 2001 he moved from Royal Holloway, University of London, to become David G. Frey Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently writing a monograph on Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (1943).