'Opera and the Spanish Empire' is an open academic community of international scholars from different disciplines approved in October 2025 by the International Musicological Society. It aims to open a new interdisciplinary discussion about the role that opera and music theatre played in the history of the Spanish empire, from its origins until its collapse and even after, through the many legacies it left worldwide.

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Within the broad context of Spanish imperial history, this group seeks to discuss the operatic world as a narrative and performative space for imperial dynamics, as a social and political tool for the construction and questioning of the Spanish hegemony, but also as a permeable space of coexistence of different forms and languages throughout the centuries from Spain to Latin America, Asia, Africa and the rest of Europe.

 

The group is open to scholars from musicology and other fields including, but not limited to, arts, literature, cinema and history.

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Chair: Francesco Milella González Luna (Complutense University of Madrid)​​​ - fmilella@ucm.es