جست‌وجوی استاد و پژوهشگر

Ditlev Rindomمشاهده پروفایل

پژوهشگر ارشد

• Opera and Operatic Culture
• Modern Italian Studies
• Film Music
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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.

Melina Esseمشاهده پروفایل

دانشیار

• Musicology
• Opera Studies
• Gender Studies
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Melina Esse is an Associate Professor of Musicology at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester . Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, materiality, and performance in 19th- and 20th-century opera, with special attention to improvisation, vocal techniques, and the role of female performers. She has held fellowships at the Townsend Center for the Humanities and received major awards including the 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Award for her book Singing Sappho . Education: PhD in Music History and Literature, University of California, Berkeley (recognized for excellence in teaching) Research Interests: Professor Esse explores themes such as the improvvisatrice (female poetic improviser), opera’s relationship with film and technology, and the emotive body in performance. She has published extensively on operatic collaboration, gender politics in compositions like Gounod’s Sapho , and the cultural role of divas such as Farrar in Carmen . Recent Trends in Publications: Her work bridges musicology with gender studies and literary history, often analyzing how improvisation shaped compositional authority despite its decline. Recent articles address historical performance practices, liveness in opera, and the psychological dimensions of Verdi’s vocal writing. Awards & Fellowships: 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Award (University of Chicago Press) 2014 Einstein Award (American Musicological Society) 2010 NEH Summer Stipend 2018 Bridging Fellowship (Dance and Movement Program) Teaching & Mentorship: At Eastman, she teaches courses on opera history, visual spectacle, and 19th-century vocal performance. Her advisees have explored topics ranging from early music revivals to jazz traditions. She has also contributed pre-concert lectures at the San Francisco and Minnesota Operas. Labs/Programs: Engaged with Eastman’s interdisciplinary initiatives, including the Bridging Fellowship in Dance and Movement, integrating performative studies across disciplines.

• Directing
• Performance Devising
• Opera History
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Claudia Rene Wier is an Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts and Music at The Ohio State University. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from York University and has extensive professional experience as a lyric soprano and stage director in Germany. Her research focuses on 17th-century Venetian opera, operatic divas like Anna Renzi, and warrior queen roles in opera. Education: PhD (York University), MFA (Eastern Michigan), MA (Bowling Green), MM (Bowling Green), BA (University of New Mexico). She completed a DAAD Scholarship internship in Berlin and was an Ontario Trillium Scholarship Fellow. Research interests include opera history, directing, performance devising, and voice/movement training. Her work bridges historical performance studies with contemporary theatrical practices. She has published in Theatre Survey on Handel's operas and early operatic celebrity. Awards: DAAD Scholarship, Ontario Trillium Fellowship, York University Provost Dissertation Fellowship. Teaching focuses on music and theatre, combining academic rigor with practical vocal and movement training. She is a certified trainer in Lessac Voice and Movement techniques.

Arman Schwartzمشاهده پروفایل

استادیار

• Musicology
• Sound Studies
• Italian Studies
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Arman Schwartz is an Assistant Professor in both the Program of Liberal Studies and the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame, affiliated with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and Center for Italian Studies. He holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and B.A. from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on European and American art music from the 19th century to the present, with specialties in Realism, Modernism, Sound Studies, and Opera. Major works include Puccini’s Soundscapes (2016) and co-edited Giacomo Puccini and His World (2016). Current projects explore Italian modernist aesthetics and the intersections of music with imperialism and knowledge production. His awards include the Royal Musical Association’s Jerome Roche Prize (2009) and a Rome Prize (2006-07). He has held fellowships at Columbia, Penn, and King’s College London. Teaching spans undergraduate and graduate courses on opera history, music critique, and modernist theory. Key grants include a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (£319k) mentoring postdocs in sonic diasporas and Italian theatrical imaginaries. He co-edits The Opera Quarterly and serves on the Scientific Committee of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini.