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Ditlev Rindom is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London's Department of Music within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. He previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2019–2023). His education includes a BA in English Literature from Oxford University, piano studies at the Royal College of Music and RNCM, and a PhD in Musicology from Cambridge University with a visiting fellowship at Yale University.
His research focuses on 19th–20th century opera, modern Italian studies, film music, and voice studies. Key projects include his monograph Singing in the City: Opera, Italianità and Transatlantic Exchange (1870–1918), a critical edition of Puccini's La rondine premiered at La Scala, and a co-edited Cambridge Opera Journal special issue on Italian operetta. Current work explores material cultures of 19th-century Italian opera and transnational opera-cinema links.
Teaching expertise covers 19th–20th century music history and musicological methodologies. He contributes to institutions like the Royal Opera House and Wigmore Hall through programme notes and talks. His publications span peer-reviewed journals (19th-Century Music, Journal of the Royal Musical Association) and edited volumes on Puccini and Italian opera contexts.
Research projects include the British Academy-funded 'Staging Italy: The Theatrical Imagination in the Italian Peninsula, 1837–1871' (2019–2023). He actively engages in public scholarship through reviews in Opera magazine and Times Literary Supplement, maintaining interdisciplinary connections between music, performance studies, and cultural history.
