The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia

Editor

Roberta Montemorra Marvin, University of Iowa
Roberta Montemorra Marvin is co-editor of several books, most recently Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard von Bingen to The Beatles (forthcoming) and Fashions and Legacies of Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (2010). She is author of Verdi the Student – Verdi the Teacher (2010), Verdi and the Victorians (forthcoming) and The Politics of Verdi's 'Cantica' (forthcoming). Her scholarship focuses on issues of social history, text criticism, reception history, censorship and performance practices, related to the works of Verdi and Rossini. Marvin has edited two volumes in the critical edition of Verdi's works. She has received prestigious fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the US Fulbright Commission and the American Philosophical Society. She serves on the faculty of the University of Iowa.

Contributors

Evan Baker, Scott Balthazar, Laura Basini, Marco Beghelli, George Biddlecombe, Marco Capra, Stefano Castelvecchi, Damien Colas, Carla Colletti, Martin Deasy, Fabrizio Della Seta, Alessandro Di Profio, Gabriele Dotto, Markus Engelhardt, Mark Everist, Linda B. Fairtile, Kathryn Fenton, Heather Foote, Denise Gallo, Anselm Gerhard, Andreas Giger, Philip Gossett, John Graziano, Helen Greenwald, Martina Grempler, Heather Hadlock, Olga Haldey, Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell, Gregory W. Harwood, Karen Henson, Elizabeth Hudson, Steven Huebner, Douglas L. Ipson, Francesco Izzo, Olga Jesurum, Knud Arne Jürgensen, David Kimbell, Clair Kovacs, Gundula Kreuzer, Arne Langer, David Lawton, Ralph P. Locke, Ellen Lockhart, Daniela Macchione, Candida Billie Mantica, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Kitti Messina, Renato Meucci, Carlo Matteo Mossa, Ilaria Narici, Cormac Newark, Vincenzina Ottomano, Roger Parker, Sean Parr, Pierluigi Petrobelli, Ugo Piovano, Francesca Placanica, Claudia Polo, Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Hilary Poriss, Laura Protano-Biggs, Simonetta Ricciardi, Dino Rizzo, David B. Rosen, Jesse Rosenberg, Antonio Rostagno, Susan B. Rutherford, Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici, Carlotta Sorba, Carlida Steffan, Jama Stilwell, Anna Tedesco, Jeanne Thompson, Flora Willson, Alexandra Wilson

Awards

• Finalist, Five Best Books on Verdi, Five Books (fivebooks.com)