Graduate Research Colloquium: Claudio Vellutini (University of British Columbia)
Performing Rossini’s Otello in Early Nineteenth-Century Vienna
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Claudio Vellutini joined the UBC School of Music in 2016. His research interests focus on the cultural and reception history of nineteenth-century Italian opera, its dissemination in the Habsburg Empire, historiography, performance practice, and staging. He has published essays and reviews in 19th-Century Music, Cambridge Opera Journal, Eighteenth-Century Music, and Notes. Forthcoming publications will appear in the Journal of tbe American Musicological Societyand in a number of edited volumes. His dissertation explores the political implications of the production, performance, and reception of Italian operas in Vienna in the first half of the nineteenth century. He is currently working on a book project on opera and cultural networks between Vienna and the Italian States between 1815 and 1848.
Dr. Vellutini received the 2012 Indiana University Press Award (in recognition to the best student paper presented at the spring meeting of the American Musicological Society’s Midwest chapter), an Ernst-Mach Fellowship from the Österreichischer Austauschdienst (the exchange agency funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, 2012-13), a Stuart Tave Teaching Award from the University of Chicago (2014), and an Alvin H. Johnson AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship from the American Musicological Society (2014-15). His current research is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
He received his Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 2015. Previously he studied musicology at the University of Pavia (Italy), where he earned his B.A. and M.A., and at the University of Vienna (Austria), where he was an exchange student. He also completed a degree in violin performance in Cremona (Italy). Prior to coming to UBC he was a Post-Doctoral Resident Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University, Bloomington.
About the series:
The Colloquia feature leading figures, as well as younger scholars, from across the world. They present their research in papers on all kinds of music-related topics. Graduate students Marinu Leccia and Judith Valerie Engel organise the series. Presentations are followed by a discussion and virtual drinks reception. Free and open to all Music Faculty students and members. If you would like more information, please email marinu.leccia@linacre.ox.ac.uk or judith-valerie.engel@chch.ox.ac.uk.
