Adrienne Marie Chilton (née Simpson; 26 November 1943 – 4 December 2010) was a New Zealand broadcaster, historian, musicologist and writer.
[1][3] Simpson relocated to the United Kingdom in 1965 and graduated from King's College London with a Master of Music title under Thurston Dart in 1966.
[6] Her works were published in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom,[7] and freelanced from her home in suburban Wellington and later Paraparaumu.
[7] She edited The Greatest Ornaments of Their Profession: The New Zealand Tours by the Simonsen Opera Companies, 1876–1889 that was published in 1993.
[3][7] She edited Classic Kiwi Sport: Cricket in 1996;[1] co-authored Opera's Farthest Frontier: A History of Professional Opera in New Zealand with Geoffrey Newson that same year;[6] The Oxford Companion to Australian Music in 1997; Alex Lindsay – the Man and his Orchestra with Newson the following year;[7] and contributed to Sport, Society and Culture in New Zealand in 1999.
[6] Simpson contributed to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians in the same year;[1][7] Alice May: Gilbert and Sullivan's First Prima Donna which was published as a commissioned work for American publishers in 2003;[2] Hallelujahs and History: The Auckland Choral Society, 1855–2005 in 2005 and The Centenary History of The Theatre Royal Christchurch in 2008.