Mauro Calcagno

University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Staging Baroque opera today

2025–2026: Spring

Mauro Calcagno teaches Historical Musicology and Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he directed the Center for Italian Studies. He received his PhD from Yale University and has taught at Harvard and Stony Brook University. His work focuses on opera studies, early modern music and poetry, performance studies, and digital humanities. His publications include the book From Madrigal to Opera: Monteverdi's Staging of the Self (University of California Press) and essays published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society and the Journal of Musicology, among others. He is the co-director of the Marenzio Online Digital Edition (MODE) and edited the volume Perspectives on Luca Marenzio's Secular Music. His edition of Francesco Cavalli's opera Eliogabalo is forthcoming from Bärenreiter. His current project focuses on Italian Baroque opera productions in Europe and the U.S. over the past fifty years, revising traditional narratives in opera studies by treating performance as a form of historiography.

More information: https://music.sas.upenn.edu/people/mauro-calcagno