Saverio Lamacchia researches on Italian opera of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His main interests are dramaturgy, librettos, morphology, staging, vocality, hermeneutics, relationship between works and patronage. A specialist in Gioachino Rossini's works, at the centre of Saverio’s scholarly interests lies the comparaison between librettos and their literary sources.
Education
He received his Diploma in Piano at the Conservatory of Lecce in 1991, then he graduated in DAMS (music) in 1995, and received his PhD in Musicology in 2005 at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, under the direction of Lorenzo Bianconi and Marco Beghelli.
Academic career
He has been appointed as a temporary researcher at the University of Bologna, then he became a permanent researcher at the University of Udine (December 2007 to October 2018), and finally he moved to the University of Bologna ( since October 2018).
Teaching activity
He has taught History of Modern Music and History of Musical Theatre at the University of Udine (degree in DAMS).
Scholarly activity
He was member of the research group in three "Scholarly research programs of relevant national interest" financed by the Italian MIUR (1998-2003). From 2000 to 2010 he was the editor of the musical activity of the centre "La Soffitta" of the “Dipartimento di Musica e Spettacolo”, University of Bologna. His main publications are two monographs: Il vero Figaro o sia il falso factotum: riesame del Barbiere di Rossini, Turin, EDT, 2008, translated in German (Der wahre Figaro oder das falsche Faktotum. Neubewertung des Barbiere di Siviglia von Rossini, Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2009) and partly translated in English, French and Spanish, and Zelmira, Pesaro, Fondazione Rossini, 2006 (in the series "I libretti di Rossini"). His other contributions include essays in relevant musicological journals, among them "Il Saggiatore musicale", "Musica docta", "Studi verdiani", "Studi musicali", "Bollettino del Centro rossiniano di studi". He contributed to some important research institutions such as “Fondazione Rossini” in Pesaro, “Istituto nazionale di Studi verdiani” in Parma, “Istituto dell’Enciclopedia italiana Treccani” in Rome. He has also worked with numerous symphonic and opera institutions, including Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Orchestra Mozart in Bologna, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Teatro Massimo in Catania, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
