Phd in MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS

email: emanuele.senici@uniroma1.it
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building: Vetrerie Sciarra
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Emanuele Senici studied musicology at the University of Pavia (Laurea 1993), at King's College London, and at Cornell University, USA (MA 1996, PhD 1998). From 1998 to 2000 he was Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford University, and from 2000 to 2007 University Lecturer in Music and then Reader in Musicology in the Oxford Faculty of Music (where he was Director of Graduate Studies), as well as Fellow of St. Hugh's College. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Music History at the University of Rome La Sapienza, and since 2009 Visiting Professor in the Music Department of King's College London. In 2006 he was Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, USA. His research centres on Italian opera of the long nineteenth century, on the theory and historiography of opera, especially issues of genre and gender, and on opera on video. Among his publications are _‘La clemenza di Tito’ di Mozart: i primi trent'anni (1791-1821)_ (Brepols, 1997), _Donizetti a Casa Ricordi. Gli autografi teatrali_ (Fondazione Donizetti, 1998, with Alessandra Campana and Mary Ann Smart), _The Cambridge Companion to Rossini_ (Cambridge University Press, 2004, as editor), _Landscape and Gender in Italian Opera: The Alpine Virgin from Bellini to Puccini_ (Cambridge University Press, 2005), _Giacomo Puccini and His World_ (Princeton University Press, 2016, co-edited with Arman Schwartz) and _Music in the Present Tense: Rossini's Italian Operas in Their Time_ (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Between 2003 and 2008 he was co-editor of the "Cambridge Opera Journal" (Cambridge University Press).