Fabrizio Della Seta

Fabrizio Della Seta graduated in music history with Nino Pirrotta at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1975 and in 1977 received a conservatory diploma in music composition. From 2000 to 2021 he was full professor of musicology in the Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni culturali at the University of Pavia in Cremona, where he was responsible for the doctoral program in musicology. In 2009 he was visiting professor in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago. An expert on Bellini and Verdi, in 1999 he became co-general editor of the Edizione critica delle opere di Vincenzo Bellini (Ricordi) and in 2009 he joined the Verdi Board as well as the advisory board of the Edizione nazionale delle opere di Giovan Battista Pergolesi (Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini; Ricordi). Also in 2009, he became director of the Centro di documentazione per gli studi belliniani at the University of Catania and editor of the online journal Bollettino di studi belliniani. Della Seta’s scholarly work extends from the late Middle Ages to the twentieth century and focuses mostly on nineteenth-century Italian opera. In addition to his many scholarly articles and encyclopedia entries, he is the author of Italia e Francia nell’Ottocento (EDT, 1993); Beethoven: Sinfonia Eroica. Una guida (Carocci, 2004); “… non senza pazzia. Prospettive sul teatro musicale (Carocci, 2008) (English edition: Not Without Madness: Perspectives on Opera, University of Chicago Press, 2013). He has prepared critical editions of Verdi’s La traviata (1996), including La traviata: Autograph Sketches and Drafts (2000); Rossini’s, Adina (2000); and Bellini’s, I Puritani (2013). In 2005 he received the Luigi ed Eleonora Ronga International Award for Musicology and Music Criticism from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and was elected member of the Accademia Europea. In 2014 his edition of I Puritani received the Claude V. Palisca Award from the American Musicological Society for the best musical edition published in 2013.
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