Julie and Frans Muller
Nederlands
Until she retired, Julie Muller taught English and American literature at the U. of Amsterdam graduate school. Her PhD thesis was published as Words and Music in Henry Purcell's First Semi-Opera, Dioclesian (Lewiston, NY,1990) and the text of that opera appeared in Henry Purcell's Operas: The Complete Texts ed. Michael Burden (Oxford, 2000). She has also written extensively in Dutch and English on English song texts from the Renaissance to the present.
Publications in English
Max van Egmond, baritone, biography and discography, English version of the 1984 book, available on line as a pdf file, including 1984-2010 supplement, and an appendix on singing by Max van Egmond, whose own website can be found at http://maxvanegmond.com.
Words and Music in Henry Purcell's First Semi-Opera Dioclesian, Lewiston NY 1990, Edwin Mellen Press.
“Music as Meaning in The Tempest” in Reclamations of Shakespeare, ed. A.J.Hoenselaars, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. Available on line as a pdf file.
“Dioclesian” in Henry Purcell's Operas: The Complete Texts, ed. Michael Burden, Oxford 2000, Clarendon Press.
Contact
Photograph Lee Talner, Seattle 2006
Julie and Frans were married in 1956. They have three children; their first grandchild was born in 1989.
Collaborative publications in English
“Purcell’s Dioclesian on the Dorset Garden Stage” in Performing the Music of Henry Purcell, ed. M.Burden, Oxford 1996, Oxford University Press.
“Completing the Picture: The Importance of Reconstructing Early Opera” in Early Music XXXIII/4 (2005).
“Early Opera: Production and Counter-production”, originally written for the Early Music magazine Goldberg, found after its demise at Early Music World.
Frans Muller is an interior architect and scene designer, now retired. Since the eighties he has focused on historical theatre and theatre design research. His main interest lies in late seventeenth-century English opera.
He constructed a scale model of the stage of the London Dorset Garden Theatre, showing the scenery for the finale of Purcell en Betterton's Dioclesian, which premiered there. His reconstruction of this masque was published i.a. in the BBC 3 Yearbook 1995. He used the model also as the background for computer animations of his reconstructed scenes from Dioclesian and the finale of The Fairy-Queen (The Chinese Garden, see Early MusicXXXIII/4).
He has also compiled a database of illustrations relevant to baroque theatre, a subject about which he and his wife both write and lecture.
Publications in English
“Flying Dragons and Dancing Chairs at Dorset Garden: Staging Dioclesian” in Theatre Notebook, vol. XLVII (1993) nr. 2