Dr. Stefano Castelvecchi

Biography

Stefano Castelvecchi is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow at St John's College. He is the author of 'Sentimental Opera: Questions of Genre and the Age of Bourgeois Drama' published by Cambridge University Press in 2013, and he has edited and co-translated 'Abramo Basevi’s Operas of Giuseppe Verdi 1859', published by the University of Chicago Press in the same year. Castelvecchi has a strong publication record, including critical editions of works by notable composers such as Rossini and Verdi, and numerous articles focused on the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century opera and musical dramaturgy. He has held visiting professorships at institutions including Vassar College, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pavia-Cremona. Furthermore, he engages with the broader public through lectures and talks at renowned institutions such as the Royal Opera House and Teatro alla Scala, as well as contributions to BBC Radio. Additionally, he has played an active role in training opera singers at institutions like the Accademia Verdiana and the International Opera Studio in Córdoba. Castelvecchi studied composition at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome, obtained his degree in humanities from the University of Rome I – La Sapienza, and earned his Ph.D. in Music from the University of Chicago, where he focused on opera and music history under the supervision of Philip Gossett.

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