Keywords:
forms of poetry for music
secular music 16th-17th century
opera librettos
musical theatre
ancient Greek music
classical performances
classical reception studies
The research topics are related to the preservation and enhancement of the musical heritage and move mainly in three directions:
- The first concerns the subject of the current research grant, namely the valorisation of the Bolognese musical tradition. The research activity is mainly conducted on the documentary, bibliographic and museum collections preserved in the city's main institutions, limited to the period between the Renaissance and the 20th century. The three areas of musical production relevantly testified to by the sources preserved in Bologna's bibliographic collections concern: secular music from the 16th-17th centuries, oratorio production from the 16th-17th centuries, and opera production from the 17th-19th centuries. What we want to highlight is the importance of the literary aspect of these three areas through the complete transcription of a conspicuous nucleus of texts, which will be included in the RePIM database;
- The second is oriented towards studying the fortune of classical music in musical theatre, with particular attention to the relationship between the ancient sources and European libretto writing in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This field of study was mainly developed in the doctoral thesis entitled Studies on the Fortune of the Classical in Musical Theatre. Myths, characters, and dramaturgy in comparison (Supervisor: Prof. Renzo Tosi). The research is mainly concerned with investigating the sources behind specific librettos, considering the historical and cultural context of reference and the dramaturgy models;
- The third concern the study of the musical heritage of the peoples of the ancient world. As a member of MOISA (International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and Its Cultural Heritage), her research interests also focus on the study of ancient music, with a focus on the cultural heritage represented by the intangible and material musical evidence of the peoples of the ancient world (such as the realia, the focus of the TeMA project, for which she worked as a research fellow at the University of Padua from 2021 to 2022) and the study of the reception and reworking of ancient Greek music, with a particular emphasis on musical compositions for classical performances at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse.
