First Editions Critical Editions talk: Antonio Reparaz’s Gonzalo di Cordova from Manuscript to Stage: Editing, Marketing, Technology Event

About the speakers

David Ferreiro Carballo earned his Ph.D. in Musicology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2019 and holds a Master in Spanish and Hispano-American Music from the same university (2015). For the his doctorate, he benefited from a four-years contract for the Training of University Teachers funded by the Ministry of Education (FPU), which allowed him to devote full time to his dissertation about the first two operas of Spanish composer Conrado del Campo; as well as to complete two three-months stays at Yale University as Visiting Assistant in Research (2017 and 2018).

His lines of research focus around Spanish music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention to the following areas: analysis and music theory, Nationalism, Regionalism and musical identity, critical edition and recovery of the repertoire, Spanish lyrical theatre, associationism, musical institutions, and wind bands.

He won the National Prize of Musicology (2020), given by the Spanish Musicological Society (SEdeM). As part of his posdoctoral period at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, he is currently completing a six-month residency at the University of Oxford, funded by theSpanish Ministry of Education.

His publication include the monograph Luis R. Brage Villar: Obra e memoria (2020), numerous articles and book chapters, and the critical editions of Felipe Pedrell’s La Celestina (forthcoming), and Antonio Reparaz’s Gonzalo di Cordova (co-edited with Francesco Izzo, in preparation).

Francesco Izzo is Professor of Music at the University of Southampton. His research focuses on nineteenth-century opera and song. He is the author of the monograph Laughter between Two Revolutions: Opera Buffa in Italy, 1831–1848 (2013). His articles have appeared in Acta Musicologica, Cambridge Opera Journal, Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of Musicology, Studi Musicali, and numerous collections of essays.

He serves as General Editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, the series co-published by The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi which publishes all of Verdi's music in critical edition. His edition of Un giorno di regno has appeared in that series in 2021. He also serves as direttore scientifico of Festival Verdi Parma. Under his leadership, Festival Verdi was named Best Opera Festival at the 2018 International Opera Awards.

As a researcher, writer, and speaker, he is frequently invited to collaborate with opera houses and festivals in Europe and the United States, including Sarasota Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Glyndebourne, the Welsh National Opera, the Royal Opera House, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Teatro Real in Madrid, ABAO-Bilbao Opera, the Arena di Verona, the Salzburg Festival, the Bayerische Staatsoper, and the BBC. As a pianist and vocal coach, he has performed with distinguished artists, including Barry Banks, Rockwell Blake, Kevin Short, Giuseppe Taddei, and, recently, Leo Nucci, Lisette Oropesa, Michele Pertusi, Anna Pirozzi, and Juan-Jesús Rodriguez, and he has coached and advised many more.