Luísa Cymbron obtained her PhD in Musicology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she has also taught since 1986. Her research focuses on 19th-century Portuguese music, the reception of the Italian and French opera repertoire in Portugal and musical relations between Portugal and Brazil during the same period. She is a member of the CESEM (Center for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics – NOVA FCSH), and published several articles in journals and collective works as well as collaborated in various research projects in Portugal and abroad. In 2001, she organized the exhibition Verdi em Portugal 1843-2001 in the National Library of Portugal. Since 2013, she has been the review editor of the Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia. She is also the author of História da Música em Portugal (1992), in collaboration with Manuel Carlos de Brito, the volume of essays Olhares sobre a musica em Portugal no século XIX: Ópera, ópera virtuosismo e música doméstica (Colibri, 2012) and Francisco de Sá Noronha (1820-1881): um músico português no espaço atlântico (Humus, 2019). She recently edited with Ana Isabel Vasconcelos a collective work O velho Teatro de (1798-1908): teatro e música no Porto do longo século XIX (Afrontamento, 2020).