Lisa Mumme (MA, Musicology) won the National Opera Association’s 2018 Scholarly Paper Competition with her paper, “‘Angelica di voce’: Ángela Peralta as Nineteenth-Century Diva.”

Lisa will present her paper at the NOA’s annual conference in Salt Lake City in January 2019 and the piece will appear in The Opera Journal in December 2019.

Lisa’s achievement marks the third time an Iowa student has won the competition.