On February 24-25, 2015, graduate student Maria Murphy, whose work concerns gender and sexuality in opera, was the invited speaker within the series Between the Notes at Opera Philadelphia. Her talk dealt with Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss, the opera that is soon to be performed at the Kimmel Center (March 4, 6, and 8) within the current 2014-15 season (Aurora series), co-produced with the Curtis Institute of Music.