Hilde Roos is the General Manager of Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation at Stellenbosch University. Her work focuses on historical and contemporary representations of opera in Southern Africa with special reference to the intersection of the genre with politics and race. She has published widely about the Eoan Group, a so-called coloured opera group who performed opera during Apartheid. She is the author of The La Traviata Affair – Opera in the Age of Apartheid (University of California Press, 2018), and joint editor of “Sorry. I am what I am.” The life and letters of the South African pianist and opera coach Gordon Jephtas (1943–92) (Basler Afrika Bibliografien, 2023) and EOAN – Our Story (Fourthwall Books, Johannesburg, 2013). In 2020 she co-edited African Theatre – Opera and Music Theatre, exploring historical and contemporary traces of opera and music theatre on the African continent. 

Hilde is also a founder member of the Black Opera Research Network (BORN), an international network of scholars that engage with conversations on the history, experiences, politics and practices of Black Opera.