Research

Over the past three decades, the Spanish Empire has increasingly been examined within a broader transnational framework that traces its political, cultural, and intellectual networks across regions as diverse as Mexico, Equatorial Guinea, and the Philippines. This scholarship has highlighted both the distinctiveness of its power structures—often positioned as anomalous within postcolonial theory—and the complexity of its cultural dynamics. The Study Group Opera and the Spanish Empire contributes to this discussion from a musicological perspective, convening historians and musicologists to explore the role of opera in the making, transformation, and afterlives of the Spanish imperial world.